Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

AWS Quest 2: Reaching Las Vegas

Hey AWS Questers and puzzlehunters! We’ve reached the last day of AWS Quest: The Road to re:Invent! Ozz has made it from Seattle to Las Vegas—after taking the long way via Sydney, Tokyo, Beijing, Seoul, Singapore, Mumbai, Stockholm, Cape Town, Paris, London, Sao Paulo, New York City, Toronto, and Mexico City. Now in Vegas, Ozz plans […]

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Announcing AWS Machine Learning Heroes (plus new AWS Community Heroes)

The AWS Heroes program helps developers find inspiration and build skills from community leaders who have extensive AWS knowledge and a passion for sharing their expertise with others. The program continues to evolve to align with technology trends and recognize community leaders who focus on specific technical disciplines. Today we are excited to launch a […]

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Delphix Bolsters Executive Team to Support Surging Global Demand for DataOps

New Chief Marketing Officer and First-Ever Global Practice Director for Data Transformation join Delphix to help enterprises around the world accelerate digital innovation REDWOOD CITY, Calif., November 16, 2018 – Delphix, the company enabling the largest enterprises in the world to accelerate digital innovation through DataOps, today announced a significant expansion to its executive team […]

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Some Unique Sessions at re:Invent 2018

We recently added three unique breakout sessions to the re:Invent Session Catalog and I want to make sure that you are aware of them. It’s rare for Distinguished Engineers like Peter Vosshall, Principal Engineers like Colm MacCarthaigh, and Directors and VPs responsible for entire AWS services to speak within a three day period. So, you […]

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IBM Allies with ServiceNow to Bridge DevOps Divide with ITIL

IBM and ServiceNow today announced an alliance under which IBM Global Technology Services (GTS) will collaborate with ServiceNow to make DevOps processes and events managed via the IBM Cloud Migration Factory visible to a cloud-based IT service management platform from ServiceNow based on the ITIL framework. Jim Comfort, general manager for cloud services at IBM […]

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So Many DevOps Tools, So Little Time

I’ve received thousands of emails, ads and sales pitches for tools for every stage of the app life cycle, from automating infrastructure buildout to release planning to building and testing, to delivering applications. If you’re building or rearchitecting an application, you have a surfeit of choice of DevOps tools. Ironically, when an organization invests in […]

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Role of DevOps in Mobile App Development

Emerged out of Agile methods in 2001, DevOps basically represents a fundamental departure from the traditional waterfall software development approach. DevOps is a modern software development method that focuses mainly on the effective collaboration between software developers, project managers and operations staff, while also aligning with business goals at the same time. DevOps came into […]

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American Express Uses DevOps for Better Breach Response

It was 6 a.m. Saturday when the phone rang and awoke the American Express CIO. When the phone rings at 6 a.m., it is never good news. Never. This instance was no different: In this case, a third-party supplier just suffered a breach, and that breach would impact American Express cardholders. Immediately following that call, […]

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Amazon S3 Block Public Access – Another Layer of Protection for Your Accounts and Buckets

Newly created Amazon S3 buckets and objects are (and always have been) private and protected by default, with the option to use Access Control Lists (ACLs) and bucket policies to grant access to other AWS accounts or to public (anonymous) requests. The ACLs and policies give you lots of flexibility. You can grant permissions to […]

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New – Train Custom Document Classifiers with Amazon Comprehend

Amazon Comprehend gives you the power to process natural-language text at scale (read my introductory post, Amazon Comprehend – Continuously Trained Natural Language Processing, to learn more). After launching late 2017 with support for English and Spanish, we have added customer-driven features including Asynchronous Batch Operations, Syntax Analysis, support for additional languages (French, German, Italian, […]

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