Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Four Steps to Implement an Observability Strategy for Microservices

You’ve finally decided. You’re making the move to microservices and re-architecting your entire infrastructure. Some services will still be on-premises (those databases and their legacy apps are never moving), but a cloud-based microservices architecture will allow your teams to build and bring new products to market faster. But how do you handle the complexity that […]

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From Pets to X-as-Code: Enabling Control and Predictability for ITOps at Scale

Amy Wheelus, vice president of network cloud at AT&T, recently spoke about declarative predictability at the Open Networking Summit in Antwerp. AT&T is the world’s largest telecommunications company providing mission critical communication services where people’s jobs–and lives–can be on the line. As they move away from labor-intensive IT operations toward cloud-native automation, there is a […]

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Legacy Databases Are Holding Back Enterprise Digital Transformations

As enterprises rush to digitize their business operations and enhance customer engagement, few are seeing the success they hoped. A recent survey points to a couple of culprits, including the difficulty of utilizing data held in legacy databases. The survey, conducted by market research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf of Couchbase, of 450 heads of […]

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An Embarrassment of Riches

History says people rarely appreciate what they have in the heat of the moment. Our highly connected and high-speed world is no exception to this rule. The things that frustrate us are in our faces, while the things that make nearly everything better/safer/faster are taken for granted. That is every bit as true in IT […]

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Refactoring and Decomposition

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200 Amazon CloudFront Points of Presence + Price Reduction

Less than two years ago I announced the 100th Point of Presence for Amazon CloudFront. The overall Point of Presence footprint is now growing at 50% per year. Since we launched the 100th PoP in 2017, we have expanded to 77 cities in 34 countries including China, Israel, Denmark, Norway, South Africa, UAE, Bahrain, Portugal, […]

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DevOps Chat: Monitoring Spinnaker on GKE with Miles Matthias

On a project to move one of Google’s Fortune 500 customers to Google Cloud, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Spinnaker open source, our DevOps Chat guest ran into the message “hang tight.” No scripts or documentation. Not to be delayed, Miles Matthias, Google Cloud Consultant with Container Heroes, filled the gap and contributed his work […]

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How Monitoring and Observability Feed Each Other to Create a Holistic Approach to Visibility

Monitoring versus observability is a hotly debated topic. It’s been argued they’re two distinct things—the former just a high-level overview of a problem after the fact, while the latter enables you to be proactive. Observability has also been dismissed as jargon, much how DevOps sounds to the seasoned operator. The thing is, the whole debate […]

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Five Don’ts When Scaling DevOps

The DevOps market is expected to reach $50 billion by 2022. However, despite the growing market, many organizations are struggling to make the transition from the successful implementation of a DevOps project to scaling across an organization. Gartner anticipates that 75% of DevOps initiatives will fail to fully meet expectations through 2022. If organizations are […]

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Talend Aligns With Microsoft on DevOps

Talend has made its integration platform natively available on the Microsoft Azure cloud to provide DevOps teams employing Azure DevOps with an easier approach to creating pipelines and integrating data. Vincent Lam, head of cloud product marketing for Talend, said the company is now making available 900 connectors and components to DevOps teams that use […]

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