People and culture

Daniele Procida
17 November 2021

The future of documentation at Canonical

Article Community

Our software documentation is part of how we talk to each other – our users, our colleagues, our community. It’s a way we demonstrate how we value each other – including how we value you. We’ve understood the importance of this for some time, but actually finding a way to express those values in our

Daniele Procida
17 November 2021

Claudio Gomboli
19 April 2021

Multiculturalism and globalisation in user experience

User Experience Design

The worldwide Internet audience is growing exponentially less English speaking and less Western centred. In order to engage with this multicultural audience, designers need an interdisciplinary approach in order to expand the design practice with cross-cultural methods.

Claudio Gomboli
19 April 2021

Andreea Munteanu
8 February 2021

Ubuntu in the wild – 9th of February 2021

Article People and culture

The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis. It is a summary of all the things that made us feel proud to be part of this journey. What do you think of it? Ubuntu Core 20 release is here This

Andreea Munteanu
8 February 2021

Andreea Munteanu
4 November 2020

Ubuntu Groovy Gorilla on Raspberry Pi

Article People and culture

On the 22nd of October, the 20.10 release was launched, featuring an Ubuntu Desktop image optimised for the Raspberry Pi. It brings together Ubuntu and Raspberry Pi for educators, inventors and entrepreneurs, bringing the world’s most used open-source desktop to the world’s most accessible hardware. Getting started on...

Andreea Munteanu
4 November 2020

Canonical
7 October 2020

Emilia Torino shares what goes into keeping Ubuntu secure

Article People and culture

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, but who are the people behind Canonical? In this blog series, we get to know some of the different employees that make up our company. Emilia Torino is a Security Generalist at Canonical, and she has over 10 years of experience working in software engineering at an enterprise level.

Canonical
7 October 2020

Canonical
10 September 2020

How Aldo’s passion for artificial intelligence and machine learning led to a role at Canonical

Article People and culture

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, but who are the people behind Canonical? This blog is the second in a series getting to know some of the different employees that make up our company. For today’s blog, we spoke with Aldo Martinez, a member of our US-based team. Aldo’s passion for artificial intelligence and machine

Canonical
10 September 2020

cmoullec
25 August 2020

Travel, CLIs, and sticky notes: Lilyana’s life as a Canonical UX designer

Article People and culture

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, but who are the people behind Canonical? This blog series is all about getting to know the different employees that make up our company. Lilyana Videnova is a Senior User Experience (UX) Designer who has worked on a wide range of Canonical products. We spoke with Lilyana to find

cmoullec
25 August 2020

cmoullec
20 July 2020

Employee spotlight: Alice Cambridge, Inside Sales Representative

Article People and culture

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, but who are the people behind Canonical? This blog will be the first in a series getting to know some of the different employees that make up our company. We will be talking to people across roles and departments, starting with Alice Cambridge. Alice joined Canonical as a new

cmoullec
20 July 2020

Canonical
15 October 2019

Grace Hopper Conference 2019

Article People and culture

We are so excited about what just happened that we felt we should tell everyone about it! A group of 24 of us at Canonical from various teams including Sales, HR and Engineering, attended the Grace Hopper Celebration in Orlando, Florida. This year, it was an epic gathering of more than 26,000 people from all

Canonical
15 October 2019

Canonical
12 June 2019

Get to know these 5 Ubuntu community resources

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu OS is open source, with a whole community working to shape and support it. Here are some resources from the Ubuntu community for the Ubuntu community.

Canonical
12 June 2019

Alex Murray
28 May 2019

Introducing the Ubuntu security podcast

Article People and culture

The Ubuntu Security Podcast is a weekly podcast covering all the latest news and developments from the Ubuntu Security team. Each week the team discuss the various security updates that have been published across the Ubuntu releases, describing the technical details of both the security vulnerabilities as well as the...

Alex Murray
28 May 2019

Canonical
11 April 2019

On the Case – High Resource Usage

Article Cloud and server

A customer recently submitted a case that Pedro Principeza, a Canonical Support Engineer, was able to solve using an interesting technique. Principeza was contacted to help pinpoint the processes that were generating a high rate of I/O operations, affecting server performance. Implementing a trace to pinpoint workload...

Canonical
11 April 2019

Juan Real
4 April 2019

Remote collaborative design

Article People and culture

Hands up if you or someone in your team work remotely. I am sure there are many of you out there. One of the biggest growing trends, since I started working in the technology industry 15 years ago, is how common and accessible working from home has become. There are many advances that contributed to its adoption, but...

Juan Real
4 April 2019

Canonical
21 January 2019

What will be the biggest development trends in 2019?

Article Cloud and server

What’s the most popular programming language today among software developers? It’s still JavaScript, with over 10M users globally. Python has reached 7M active developers and is climbing up the ranks. How do we know that? Thanks to the Developer Economics survey. Every year it reaches over 40,000 developers in 167+...

Canonical
21 January 2019

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