Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Full-Time Employment in the Age of Automation

Back in 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes wrote a short essay, “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren,” in which he predicted that in a hundred years the 15-hour work week will be commonplace. Keynes made this assertion based on two factors: first, the increase in capital due to extraordinary yields from the compound interest that […]

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Building serverless apps with components from the AWS Serverless Application Repository

Guest post by AWS Serverless Hero Aleksandar Simovic. Aleksandar is a Senior Software Engineer at Science Exchange and co-author of “Serverless Applications with Node.js” with Slobodan Stojanovic, published by Manning Publications. He also writes on Medium on both business and technical aspects of serverless. Many of you have built a user login or an authorization […]

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Learn about AWS Services & Solutions – March AWS Online Tech Talks

Join us this March to learn about AWS services and solutions. The AWS Online Tech Talks are live, online presentations that cover a broad range of topics at varying technical levels. These tech talks, led by AWS solutions architects and engineers, feature technical deep dives, live demonstrations, customer examples, and Q&A with AWS experts. Register […]

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Exclusive 2004 Interview with Thomas Kurian | @KubeSUMMIT @GoogleCloud #CloudNative #DevOps #Serverless #Kubernetes

Two and a half years ago, when he stepped in to help Oracle get back into the application server business, Thomas Kurian had quite a tough row to hoe. Now he has 19,000 customers. JDJ explores with Kurian his 30-month journey, and asks too about other aspects of emerging technology seen from the Oracle perspective. […]

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Docker Meets Kubernetes | @KubeSUMMIT #CloudNative #Serverless #DevOps #Docker #Kubernetes #AWS #Monitoring

Kubernetes, Docker and containers are changing the world, and how companies are deploying their software and running their infrastructure. With the shift in how applications are built and deployed, new challenges must be solved. In his session at @DevOpsSummit at19th Cloud Expo, Sebastian Scheele, co-founder of Loodse, will discuss the implications of containerized applications/infrastructures and […]

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Survey Finds Mixed Progress on DevSecOps

A survey of 5,558 IT professionals published today by Sonatype in collaboration with CloudBees, Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute, Signal Sciences, 9th Bit and Twistlock finds 27 percent of organizations have mature DevOps practices in place, while another 48 percent are still working on improving them. Despite the DevOps works that remains to be accomplished, […]

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Aqua Security Introduces Industry’s First Serverless Function Assurance for Securing Serverless Environments

Aqua 4.0 release also tightens Linux host protection and compliance on the heels of recent vulnerability disclosures Boston, MA – 4 March 2019 – Aqua Security, the leading platform provider for securing container-based and cloud native applications, announced today the availability of version 4.0 of the Aqua cloud native security platform, introducing new security and […]

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Akamai Extends Scope of DevOps Reach

Akamai today moved to further extend the number of capabilities it exposes via its content delivery network (CDN) that are designed to appeal to DevOps teams. Those enhancements include HTTP/2 performance optimizations and the ability to automatically load font libraries, as well as providing access to “middle-mile” logs that will enable DevOps teams to more […]

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DevOps Chat: AppSec and DevSecOps with Contrast Security’s Jeff Williams

I have known of Jeff Williams in the security industry for more than several years. He is a well-respected thought leader in AppSec and OWASP. I finally got a chance to catch up with Jeff and talk with him about Contrast Security, the company he co-founded and how it is helping. In this DevOps Chat, […]

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IoT Future-Proofing for the Long Haul

Think about this: The IoT application your DevOps team is developing right now, if successful at scale, will likely be the longest-living application in your shop. It may even outlive the tenure of many of your team members with your company. Is IoT future-proofing possible over a life cycle of 10 years or more? Yes, […]

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