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Best Practices for End-to-End Testing in 2025
End-to-end (E2E) testing is a critical practice in today’s software development, ensuring that entire applications work seamlessly from the user’s perspective. With the growing complexity of web applications – from large monoliths to distributed microservices – thorough E2E testing has become essential for quality assurance.
What craft means for Canonical
Last month Jon Seager (our Vice President for Ubuntu Engineering) wrote about crafting software: Multiple Canonical products have craft in their names: Snapcraft, Charmcraft, Rockcraft (and there are others in the works). Our craft products are tools for making software, for the software craftsperson. To be a maker of tools comes with responsibilities – when you decide what tools should be like, you are also deciding how people should work.
How to Automate Password Resets with Resolve #itautomation #ai #aiautomation #agenticai
Tired of password reset tickets? Meet RITA — Resolve’s AI IT agent. Understands natural language Verifies identity Resets passwords instantly No tickets. No delays. This is Zero Ticket IT in action. Watch Resolve’s Derek Pascarella show how it works.
Weaponized AI vs. AI Driven Security Posture Management: Why the Battle Starts in Misconfigurations
August 5, 2025, Las Vegas Black Hat 2025, Abnormal AI officially launched its Security Posture Management for Microsoft 365. This release marks a critical turning point. In an era where attackers weaponized AI to uncover and exploit misconfigured cloud environments at machine speed, reactive security simply can’t keep pace. Threat actors are now leveraging automated AI to scan systems, identify configuration drift, escalate privileges, and deploy zero‑day exploits in seconds.
Automating Network Diagrams for A Complete View of All Active and Passive Components
Accurately tracking how data center devices are connected—across switches, patch panels, structured cabling, and more—is essential for efficient data center operations. But for many teams, documentation still lives in static diagrams or outdated spreadsheets, requiring extensive manual effort. This is time-consuming and leads to inaccuracies that can cause delays in planning or troubleshooting and unnecessary risk. Sunbird DCIM changes that.
IP Optical Middle Mile Network Architectures for Rural America
In addressing the burgeoning demand for broadband connectivity in rural America, a robust and innovative IP Optical Network Architecture is essential. The architecture must incorporate a best-in-class multi-layer design optimized for middle-mile functionality, integrating both voice and security dimensions. A pivotal requirement is to decouple the last mile from the middle mile, ensuring that the last-mile solutions can remain agnostic to various technologies while still benefiting from a unified middle-mile infrastructure.
Avoid the Chaos Engineering bottleneck
Chaos Engineering is great, but by itself it can create bottlenecks that limit your reliability journey. FULL TRANSCRIPT: One of the things we've learned while building Gremlin and being the first Chaos Engineering tool to market is with all the greatness that comes with this approach, we've learned some of the downfalls, some of the drawbacks. And one of those is how you scale this practice.
Log Format Standards: JSON, XML, and Key-Value Explained
Your log format defines how your application records events. The structure you choose shapes how logs get parsed, indexed, and queried. It affects how quickly you can debug issues, build alerts, or control storage usage. In this guide, we'll take a look at the log formats developers typically use, the essential fields to include, and what trade-offs to consider before locking down a format for your system.
Is Linux secure?
Meet Pal. Pal is a senior developer working at PalBank. For the next 6 months, Pal will be responsible for leading the development of the bank’s web application client, which will be used daily by millions of customers.