Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

GitLab Survey Sees DevOps Gains as Developers Exercise More Control

A global survey of 3,650 software professionals published by GitLab respondents indicates developers are exercising more direct control over IT environments. More than a third of respondents (35%) said developers define and/or create the infrastructure their applications run on, with 14% actually monitoring and responding to infrastructure events. Additionally, 18% of developers instrument code for […]

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IBM launches Equal Access Toolkit to help developers build accessible websites and applications

Increase the accessibility of your application and website from the start with the open source IBM Equal Access Toolkit. By Si McAleer, Program Director, IBM Accessibility Although nearly 1 in 4 adults in the U.S. face some type of disability, an industry sample has found that in 2020 over 98 percent of home pages had a detectable accessibility error. […]

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How to Secure the Intangible — Cloud Native Security in the New Age

People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole. Companies aren’t interested in managing IT; they’re more interested in results. They want to deliver software quickly and focus on their core product or service. This is where the concept of cloud native computing comes in—and why securing it has become critical.  […]

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Is Your Infrastructure Ready for Edge Computing?

Like many IT innovations, edge computing began with engineers as a natural extension of technology to address a growing need. The concept isn’t new; distributed computing has been around for decades. But, at the same time standards began to converge and edge hardware started making the rounds at trade shows, the hype machine saw an […]

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No Excuses: Lock Down RDP

We’ve been at the “everyone working remote” thing for months now, and still there are horror stories of people being attacked via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Early on, it was understandable if not acceptable—but we’re not early on any more. During the rush of doing whatever it took to help people work from home, exposed […]

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Career Development in Trying Times

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Adventures in Scaling in Changing Times

I don’t know about you, but the last two months have been kind of crazy for me due to the spread of COVID-19. In the middle of a trans-Nordics trip in early March that took me to Denmark, Finland, and Sweden in the course of a week, Amazon asked me and my coworkers to work […]

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Chef Adds Support for Arm Graviton 2 Processors on AWS Cloud

Chef announced this week that its offerings for managing and testing infrastructure as code now support Graviton 2 processors from Arm on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. AWS this week announced the availability of an M6g instance of processors on its public cloud. Based on a 64-bit Arm Neoverse N1 architecture, the M6g processors […]

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HashiCorp Extends Consul Service Mesh Reach

HashiCorp today made available an update to its Consul service mesh that makes it easier to integrate legacy and modern applications. Service meshes have emerged as a framework for documenting and controlling how application services interact with one another. Most of the adoption of service meshes thus far has involved applications built using microservices. With […]

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Cisco Aligns With Google to Meld DevOps and NetOps

The extension of a partnership between Cisco Systems and Google to drive tighter integration between their respective software-defined wide area network (SD-WANs) offerings and cloud platforms promises to accelerate the convergence of NetOps and DevOps. John Apostolopoulos, vice president and CTO for Intent-Based Networking Group at Cisco, said in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic […]

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