Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

IT Ops Trends: Cloud, Containers and COVID

Almost all companies are modernizing their IT infrastructure to remain competitive, with the focus firmly on migration to the cloud and the use of dynamic infrastructures. In a recent Trends in IT Ops 2021 survey, more than 160 IT professionals were asked how the implementation of IT strategies affected their day-to-day work. The results provided […]

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NPMs Sabotaged as OSS Sustainability Crisis Continues

A long-simmering debate over the sustainability of smaller open source projects moved beyond the theoretical when two widely used open source node packaged modules (npm) were deliberately sabotaged this week, allegedly by a primary contributor. Colors.js is an npm that has been downloaded more than 3.3 billion times, with more than 19,000 projects depending on […]

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Connecting Your Cloud & DevOps Tools to Enable CI/CD

An effective continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline must integrate cloud and DevOps tools seamlessly to ensure the build, compile, test and release of applications is accomplished efficiently and without friction. Application architectures, internal processes and personal preferences mean organizations and teams set up the CI/CD pipeline differently, resulting in a diversity of infrastructure and tooling […]

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CNCF Takes LitmusChaos Platform to the Incubation Level

The technical oversight committee (TOC) for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today it is elevating the open source LitmusChaos application testing platform to the incubation level. LitmusChaos is a chaos engineering platform donated to the CNCF by ChaosNative in 2020. Since then, it has seen adoption within production environments by more than 25 […]

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How Low-Code Enables the Composable Enterprise

Enterprises know that their customers and partners expect a superior personalized experience. After all, customer experience has been a top priority for organizations over the last decade. However, despite all the technological advancements and transformation initiatives, the ability to deliver innovation with speed continues to elude.  Without this ability, enterprises constantly play catch-up with rapidly […]

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Step Aside, Monoliths: Meet the Composable Enterprise

A composable enterprise, defined by Gartner as “an organization that delivers business outcomes and adapts to the pace of business change”, relies on the assembly of interchangeable application building blocks. This architectural overhaul has largely been driven by a demand for more configurable application experiences, and the need to evolve existing application portfolios that are […]

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New – Amazon EC2 Hpc6a Instance Optimized for High Performance Computing

High Performance Computing (HPC) allows scientists and engineers to solve complex, compute-intensive problems such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD), weather forecasting, and genomics. HPC applications typically require instances with high memory bandwidth, a low latency, high bandwidth network interconnect and access to a fast parallel file system. Many customers have turned to AWS to run […]

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Three Cloud Trends to Watch in 2022

Many developers and startups view cloud services as simply “compute”, “storage” and “networking.” The cloud has matured to the point where customers often don’t think about the underlying infrastructure, service levels or debate the merits of on-premises versus cloud&;mdash;instead, they are increasingly cloud-first. In fact, December of 2021 marked Amazon Web Services (AWS) marked its […]

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GitLab Revamps Observability Strategy After Acquiring Opstrace

GitLab plans to make observability a more integrated element of its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform after acquiring Opstrace. Opstrace’s open source project exposes a horizontally scalable application programming interface (API) created by Cortex for Prometheus, an open source monitoring platform being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It then […]

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Using Event-Driven Architecture With Microservices

Microservices architecture is on the rise, already forming a key part of several current transformation projects, breaking down traditionally monolithic applications into self-contained, independently deployed services that are identified using domain-driven design. Stats from a recent study found that more than 60% of respondents have been using microservices for a year or more. In particular, […]

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