Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

New – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is Now Generally Available

We introduced Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS) in preview at re:Invent last year. In the few months that passed, the service introduced many new features, and it is generally available today with a new name: Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra). Amazon Keyspaces is built on Apache Cassandra, and you can use it as a fully managed, […]

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New – AWS Transfer for FTP and FTPS, in addition to existing SFTP

AWS Transfer for SFTP was launched on November 2018 as a fully managed service that enables the transfer of files directly into and out of Amazon S3 using the Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP). Today, we are happy to announce the expansion of the service to add support for FTPS and FTP, which makes it […]

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New – Use CloudWatch Synthetics to Monitor Sites, API Endpoints, Web Workflows, and More

Today’s applications encompass hundreds or thousands of moving parts including containers, microservices, legacy internal services, and third-party services. In addition to monitoring the health and performance of each part, you need to make sure that the parts come together to deliver an acceptable customer experience. CloudWatch Synthetics (announced at AWS re:Invent 2019) allows you to […]

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Despite Downturn, Enterprise IT Budgets Remain Intact

A survey of 137 IT operations leaders at companies in the U.S with at least 500 employees and an annual IT budget in excess of $5 million finds a surprising amount of resiliency at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Conducted April 1 by OpsRamp, a provider of IT operations tools, the survey finds more […]

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Instana Announces Integration with Coralogix Log Analytics Solution

Company Becomes First APM Vendor to Release Direct Integration with ELK-Stack Based Solution Chicago and San Francisco – April 23, 2020 – Instana, the leading provider of real-time application performance management (APM) solutions for cloud-native microservice applications, today announced the availability of one-click integration with Coralogix, the first ELK based Log Analytics solution to be […]

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How SDM’s Holistic Approach Connects Organizations and Streamlines Delivery Processes

Since Jez Humble and David Farley popularized the term in 2010, continuous delivery has revolutionized software delivery practices.  Creating mature continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines has helped enterprises deliver software that performs better, based on a long list of metrics. Failure rates have dropped from 50% to under 15%, and cycle times are measured in […]

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Data: The Fabric of Developers’ Lives

We’re living in the golden age of application development. Developers can tap into more resources and enjoy greater flexibility than ever before. Multi-cloud environments offer them the freedom to pick and choose from a wide range of services based on the strengths and offerings of different cloud providers. They have unparalleled opportunities to achieve their […]

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Multi-Cloud Cost Optimization For The Enterprise

Multi-cloud is an increasingly popular approach for deploying enterprise computing assets. But, in the same vein, managing cloud costs has become a huge challenge. Whilst public cloud continues to grow in popularity, there are many factors that can increase a cloud bill that needs to be taken into consideration. A smart cloud cost management strategy […]

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New – Announcing Amazon AppFlow

Software as a service (SaaS) applications are becoming increasingly important to our customers, and adoption is growing rapidly. While there are many benefits to this way of consuming software, one challenge is that data is now living in lots of different places. To get meaningful insights from this data, we need to have a way […]

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AWS Chatbot – ChatOps for Slack and Amazon Chime

Last year, my colleague Ilya Bezdelev wrote Introducing AWS Chatbot: ChatOps for AWS to launch the public beta of AWS Chatbot. He also participated in the re:Invent 2019 Launchpad and did an in-depth AWS Chatbot demo: In his initial post, Ilya showed you how you can practice ChatOps within Amazon Chime or Slack, receiving AWS […]

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