Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Learning ‘The Third Way’ of DevOps – Continuous Improvement

I refer to the third way of DevOps–continuous experimentation and learning, as simply continuous improvement. In some sense, there is no way to learn the third way of DevOps because it is, by definition, a moving target. It does make sense to discuss what is needed to create a continuous learning organization for DevOps continuous […]

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WSO2 Applies AI to API Management

WSO2 today unfurled a Choreo cloud platform through which DevOps teams can create and manage application programming interfaces (APIs) more efficiently by leveraging machine learning algorithms and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI). Eric Newcomer, WSO2 CTO, said the integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) eliminates all the tasks associated with setting up a platform for and managing […]

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Harness Employs ML to Streamline DevOps Workflows

At the online {Unscripted} 2021 conference, Harness today announced an update to its namesake DevOps platform that includes support for feature flags that expose new capabilities to a select number of users for testing purposes along with the ability to prioritize the running of those tests based on the likelihood an application is likely to […]

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How to Analyze Your Code for Security Vulnerabilities

Shifting Left 2.0 is a two-day virtual conference taking place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. PDT on June 22nd-23rd that dives deep into application security in the modern tech space. Security experts share insights on topics ranging from how to measure AppSec success to what role AppSec plays in digital transformation. Software developers, security […]

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Using Rust to Build Distributed Applications

Rust is an open source programming language that was initially developed at Mozilla Research and became increasingly popular for building distributed applications. It has been referred to in the Stack Overflow Survey as “the most-loved programming language” by software developers for five consecutive years. Moreover, companies like Amazon and Microsoft have recently revealed that they […]

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Yes, You Do Need SCA

We often go to restaurants and treat ourselves to unfamiliar and exotic foods made with ingredients we’re only vaguely aware of. A chef and their team (or a manager and their crew) are our vouchsafe that what’s in there isn’t deadly. Most of the time, that works out just fine; but, very rarely, we end […]

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Heads Up – AWS News Blog RSS Feed Change

TL;DR – If you are using the ancient Feedburner feed for this blog, please change to the new one (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/feed/) ASAP. Back in the early days of AWS, I paid a visit to the Chicago headquarters of a cool startup called FeedBurner. My friend Matt Shobe demo’ed their new product to me and showed me […]

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Akamai Adds Service to Optimize API Traffic

Akamai today launched an API Acceleration service specifically designed to accelerate application programming interface (API) calls using special purpose hardware, reserved capacity and prioritized routing. At the same time, the company is also making available a globally distributed key-value store dubbed EdgeKV that enables stateful applications to be deployed on its EdgeWorker nodes. Finally, Akamai […]

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Enterprises Face Growing Technical Debt

Technologists are always espousing new, trendy development solutions. More robust frameworks, increased delivery, better integration. But rarely do these proponents consider the long-term side effects of introducing new technologies. As a result, technical debt is an all-to-common occurrence in most companies. Nearly a third of IT budgets are dedicated to addressing technical debt. Devoting so […]

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Broadcom Adds VSM Platform to DevOps Portfolio

Broadcom Inc. today added a dedicated value stream management (VSM) application to its portfolio of DevOps offerings as part of an effort to make it simpler to prioritize software development initiatives. Serge Lucio, vice president and general manager for the enterprise software division of Broadcom, said that while the company has previously provided VSM capabilities […]

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