Blog posts tagged
"feature"

2 posts


Igor Ljubuncic
20 May 2020

Experimental feature: progressive releases

Article Cloud and server

“No plan survives contact with the enemy.” This is a quote famously attributed to the Prussian field marshal Helmuth von Moltke. It is also quite applicable to software development: “No code survives contact with the user.” In mission-critical environments, staggered deployments of software are a crucial part of...

Igor Ljubuncic
20 May 2020


Igor Ljubuncic
27 February 2020

Experimental feature: snap refresh awareness and update inhibition

Article Desktop

We’d like to follow up on last week’s article about parallel installs for classic snaps with another bleeding-edge topic. Today, we will discuss snap refreshes. By design, snaps come with automatic updates, and by default, the update (refresh) frequency check is four times a day. Whenever new application versions are...

Igor Ljubuncic
27 February 2020