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Blog posts tagged
"Design"

Karl Waghorn-Moyce
21 November 2019

The lifecycle of a component

Design Design

Vanilla Framework is a living design system for our products that will grow along with our organisation. Vanilla’s component library is used by many internal and external websites along with the cloud applications JAAS dashboard and MAAS UI. We release updates approximately every 2 weeks, either for bug fixes, improvements or new componen ...

Robin Winslow
19 November 2019

Avoiding dropped connections in nginx containers with “STOPSIGNAL SIGQUIT”

Cloud and server Article

(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 ...

Francisco Jiménez Cabrera
15 November 2019

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

Cloud and server Article

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 ...

Peter Mahnke
1 November 2019

Design and Web team summary – 25 October 2019

Design Article

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
15 October 2019

Design and Web team summary – 11 October 2019

Design Article

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
30 September 2019

Design and Web team summary –27 September 2019

Design Article

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 ...

Anthony Dillon
3 September 2019

Design and Web team summary – 03 September 2019

Design Article

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. ...

Robin Winslow
19 August 2019

Design and Web team summary – 16 August 2019

Ubuntu Article

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.  ...

Peter Mahnke
2 August 2019

Design and Web team summary – 2 August 2019

Ubuntu Article

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 ...

Anthony Dillon
8 July 2019

Design and Web team summary – 8 July 2019

Design Article

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 ...

Karl Williams
20 June 2019

Vanilla Framework 2.0 upgrade guide

Cloud and server Article

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, we have compiled a ...

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