On the Case – High Resource Usage

Canonical Canonical support, Ciencia, Conocimientos Generales, high resource usage, I/O, jbd2, Server, tracing filesystem journaling activity, Ubuntu Advantage, Ubuntu support abril 11, 2019

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 usage was the best solution, however, resources on […]

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Make compelling videos with free software: Director’s Cut

Igor Ljubuncic audio, Ciencia, Conocimientos Generales, processing, recording, sc:snap:audacity, sc:snap:ffmpeg, sc:snap:obs-studio, sc:snap:shotcut, sc:snap:vidcutter, sc:snap:vlc, snapcraft.io, video abril 11, 2019

Creating videos is easy. Creating great videos, not so much. A good production starts with an idea, but it also requires talent, time and tools. We cannot do much about the first two, but we sure can give you some nice ideas on the tools you want to make snappy videos. Typically, a video production […]

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Why the Visual Studio Code team launched a snap

Sarah Dickinson Ciencia, Conocimientos Generales, Developer, Microsoft, sc:snap:vscode, snapcraft.io, Snaps, Visual Studio Code abril 11, 2019

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code is a popular free code editor with built-in support for debugging, task running, and version control. While available for Linux via tarball, rpm, and debian package options, the Visual Studio Code team had been seeking new options that would support seamless upgrades to match their rapid release cadence. Joao Moreno and […]

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