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Robin Winslow
19 November 2019

Avoiding dropped connections in nginx containers with “STOPSIGNAL SIGQUIT”

Article Cloud and server

(Also published on my blog at robinwinslow.uk) Update: The default used in the official nginx docker image was changed from SIGTERM to SIGQUIT in November 2020, so this should no longer be an issue for Docker or Kubernetes users. nginx is a very popular web server. It may have just become the most popular web

Robin Winslow
19 November 2019

Francisco Jiménez Cabrera
15 November 2019

We reduced our Docker images by 60% with –no-install-recommends

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Here at Canonical, we use Dockerfiles on a daily basis for all our web projects. Something that caught our attention recently was the amount of space that we were using for each Docker image, and we realized that we were installing more dependencies than we needed. In this article, I’ll explain how we improved our

Francisco Jiménez Cabrera
15 November 2019

Peter Mahnke
1 November 2019

Design and Web team summary – 25 October 2019

Article Design

Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web squad Web is the squad that develop and maintain most of the brochure websites across the Canonical. This was a very busy two weeks for the Web squad, especially with the exciting Ubuntu 19.10 release updates to be done. Takeovers and engage pages This

Peter Mahnke
1 November 2019

Peter Mahnke
15 October 2019

Design and Web team summary – 11 October 2019

Article Design

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical. This cycle we had two sprints. The first was a web performance workshop run by the amazing Harry Roberts. It was a whirlwind two days where we learned a lot about networking, browsers, font loading and more. We also spent

Peter Mahnke
15 October 2019

Peter Mahnke
30 September 2019

Design and Web team summary –27 September 2019

Article Design

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical. The first week was spent at an Engineering Sprint in Paris France. The second week was back home. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web squad Web is the squad that develop and maintain most of

Peter Mahnke
30 September 2019

Anthony Dillon
3 September 2019

Design and Web team summary – 03 September 2019

Article Design

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web squad Web is the squad that develop and maintain most of the brochure websites across the Canonical. Build and release dqlite.io The dqlite.io site has been built and deployed.

Anthony Dillon
3 September 2019

Robin Winslow
19 August 2019

Design and Web team summary – 16 August 2019

Article Ubuntu

This iteration was the Web & design team’s first iteration of the second half of our roadmap cycle, after returning from the mid-cycle roadmap sprint in Toronto 2 weeks ago. Priorities have moved around a bit since before the cycle, and we made a good start on the new priorities for the next 3 months.

Robin Winslow
19 August 2019

Peter Mahnke
2 August 2019

Design and Web team summary – 2 August 2019

Article Ubuntu

This iteration was fairly light iteration for the Web & design team at Canonical as we had a fair few people on holidays as well as a group who has gone to Toronto for our mid-cycle roadmap sprint. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web squad Web is the squad that

Peter Mahnke
2 August 2019

Anthony Dillon
8 July 2019

Design and Web team summary – 8 July 2019

Article Design

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web squad Web is the squad that develop and maintain most of the brochure websites across the Canonical. Here are a few highlights of completed work. We also moved several

Anthony Dillon
8 July 2019

Karl Williams
20 June 2019

Vanilla Framework 2.0 upgrade guide

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We have just released Vanilla Framework 2.0, Canonical’s SCSS styling framework, and – despite our best efforts to minimise the impact – the new features come with changes that will not be automatically backwards compatible with sites built using previous versions of the framework. To make the transition to v2.0 easier,...

Karl Williams
20 June 2019

Karl Waghorn-Moyce
13 June 2019

New release: Vanilla framework 2.0

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Over the past year, we’ve been working hard to bring you the next release of Vanilla framework: version 2.0, our most stable release to date. Since our last significant release, v1.8.0 back in July last year, we’ve been working hard to bring you new features, improve the framework and make it the most stable version

Karl Waghorn-Moyce
13 June 2019

Peter Mahnke
19 May 2019

Design and Web team summary – 10 May 2019

Design Ubuntu

It was another busy iteration for the web and design team, trying to get a lot of work wrapped up before we head off to Lyon, France for our 19.10 Roadmap cycle kick-off.

Peter Mahnke
19 May 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

Peter Mahnke
20 March 2019

Design and Web team summary – 15 March 2019

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This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web team Homepage takeovers This iteration we designed and built four takeovers for our home pages including: The German version of compliance webinar The German version of AI/ML webinar A

Peter Mahnke
20 March 2019

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