Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Top Nine Skills for SREs to Master

It’s easy to talk at a high level about what site reliability engineers do: They ensure that IT systems achieve availability and performance requirements. But which skills, exactly, do SREs need to do to perform their jobs? That’s a more complicated question. To answer, let’s look at the top nine site reliability engineer skills that […]

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Return to the Office? Nah.

I was watching Charlene O’Hanlon’s interview with the CRO of Rollbar, discussing the slow growth of “return to office” policies. High-tech, because we are more mobile, had more options than many people—the janitor, for example, must be physically at their job to do it. High-tech employees did not have that issue—or if they did before […]

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The Modern Cloud

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Can Regulatory Mandates Secure Software Development?

Software companies have a long history of delivering incomplete and insecure products. This happens for a couple of reasons. Fast time-to-market has always been a business priority, taking precedence over security, especially as DevOps has become the norm in software development methodologies. And software, by nature, is easy to update and change, so some defects […]

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How to Seamlessly Transition to DevSecOps

In the last few months, the cybersecurity world has been taken by storm following the discovery of the Log4Shell vulnerability. The zero-day had the potential to put much of the connected world at risk and left security teams scrambling to quickly apply security patches to software just before Christmas 2021. As a result of the […]

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Without a Universal Language, Business Systems are Doomed

Imagine a world without DevOps. Everything that could be automated isn’t. Any job you dream up isn’t possible and, instead, you have to dig 10 to 15 clicks deep into a friendly but oppressive software interface to make every single change. Oh, and there’s no way to run searches. Picture that and you have a […]

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Database Migration from Microsoft Azure to Snowflake on AWS: Part 1

Technological advancements have increased the demand for enhanced infrastructure with quick deployments. Public cloud providers are constantly upgrading their policies and infrastructure to match ever-growing business requirements. This competition gives businesses the ability to choose the cloud provider(s) that best fit specific governance and cost-effectiveness needs. In this blog, we discuss migrating databases from SQL […]

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Merging Secrets Management and Configuration

Fresh from picking up $5.25 million in funding, CloudTruth CEO Greg Arnette talks with Mike Vizard on this episode of the View With Vizard about why configuration and secrets management need to converge. The video is below, followed by a transcript of the conversation. Announcer: This is Digital Anarchist. Mike Vizard: Thanks for the throw. […]

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Updating and Managing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

Infrastructure-as-code (IaC), often embodied by open source Terraform, is an essential ingredient to cloud and cloud-native strategies. But without the ability to scale, secure and manage IaC, you very quickly experience drift. Tim Davis, DevOps advocate with env0, pronounced “N zero”, discusses establishing a single source of truth and reigning in drift by updating and […]

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Natural Language Query (NLQ) is Key for Self-Service BI

Modern business intelligence (BI) and analytics software solutions offer more ways to explore data and find insights than ever before. However, ensuring everyone in the enterprise can use analytics independently, when they need it, remains a challenge. For analytics to be adopted across the full enterprise, your tools need to be tailored for all users. […]

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