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A Tip for World Backup Day
You work hard to create meaningful labs in our platform and loss of data can be devastating. That’s why we asked our Customer Success Managers to share a tip in commemoration with the holiday.
Add Data Science to Your Skilling List with our Latest Lab Template
The ability to interpret data and communicate results and/or trends in a meaningful way is a highly desirable skill, and Skillable has released a lab template that enables our customers to more easily create hands-on skilling in the field of data science.
A Perfect Fit: Support your Lab Goals with the Best Fabric
The Skillable lab platform provides you with several options when selecting the delivery fabric for your lab. Explore this helpful guide to select the fabric that’s the best fit for your labs.
A New Way of Skilling: Challenge-centric Learning
Recently we reached out to our team to ask what the one thing all customers should know in order to be more efficient with their labs and hands-on learning practices. Challenge-centric learning came back as the most popular answer, find out why.
Feature Alert: Markdown
Markdown is the plain text file format that Skillable uses for writing instructions in our lab development platform, Lab on Demand (LOD). With no additional software needed, markdown is quick to learn and we even provide a cheat sheet that helps you with formatting instructional elements.
Skillable Announces Addition of a Fifth Datacenter, Increasing Global RAM Capacity to 186TB
Skillable announced today that its newest datacenter in Singapore is live and successfully supporting lab launches in the Asia-Pacific region. This new datacenter is Skillable’s fifth location and its 15TB of RAM, as well as added capacity across the other datacenters, brings the company’s total global RAM capacity to 186TB.
Three Tips for Virtual Lab Developers, from a Lab Developer!
Charles Carter, a Lab Developer recently recognized for publishing 500 labs with Skillable, has three tips to share with fellow Lab Developers from lessons he learned (sometimes) the hard way!
New for Lab Developers: Standardized Virtual Machine Tiers to Optimize Lab Performance
Virtual Machines are comprised of a few core components: the amount of RAM they’re given, their compute power and the number of network adapters used. Our new standardized sizing helps our Lab Developers quickly and easily determine a size based on their needs within these components.
Building Cloud-based DevOps Labs
The popularity of DevOps methodologies, coupled with the mass migration of almost every type of technology to the cloud, has contributed to the fact that both are quickly becoming de facto standards. That means that labs that provide skills development and validation must account for the prevalence of DevOps and cloud technologies.
Optimizing Lab Performance
Lab performance is a frequently misunderstood concept. If you deploy labs, I’m sure you’ve heard the comment, “This lab is slow.” What does that mean and relative to what?
Analyzing Performance Data
Now that you have optimized your lab, you can start to analyze the recorded performance data over time. To effectively do this, you need to understand what you can analyze and how the data is captured.
