Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

CircleCI Integrates CI/CD Platform With GitLab

CircleCI today announced it has integrated its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform with a rival software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering from GitLab. DevOps teams can now, for example, trigger pipelines in CircleCI from GitLab forked merge requests in addition to merging requests and making commits for specific branches. Other capabilities include the ability to access testing capabilities […]

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Lock Down Your Toolchain

We have done amazing things with Agile and DevOps, increasing IT responsiveness to levels that most people would not have believed and our business counterparts only dreamed of even a decade ago. Think about it—we can check in a single source file and kick off a chain of events that involves half a dozen or […]

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VW CEO Fired for Dev Fails | Fiber Shortage Hits | Google Fires Blake Lemoine

In this week’s The Long View: Herbert Diess is out at VW because software is hard (yo), fiber optic cable is hard to find, and the guy who said LaMDA was sentient is dumped by Google. The post VW CEO Fired for Dev Fails | Fiber Shortage Hits | Google Fires Blake Lemoine appeared first […]

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New for Amazon GuardDuty – Malware Detection for Amazon EBS Volumes

With Amazon GuardDuty, you can monitor your AWS accounts and workloads to detect malicious activity. Today, we are adding to GuardDuty the capability to detect malware. Malware is malicious software that is used to compromise workloads, repurpose resources, or gain unauthorized access to data. When you have GuardDuty Malware Protection enabled, a malware scan is […]

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Amazon Detective Supports Kubernetes Workloads on Amazon EKS for Security Investigations

In March 2020, we introduced Amazon Detective, a fully managed service that makes it easy to analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities. Amazon Detective continuously extracts temporal events such as login attempts, API calls, and network traffic from Amazon GuardDuty, AWS CloudTrail, and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) […]

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How 5G Will Change the Public Cloud as We Know It

When it comes to realizing the promise of 5G, we’re still a few years away. Under the hood, though, the rollout of 5G infrastructure and the new applications 5G will enable—from AR and VR to new drone capabilities and beyond—will drive dramatic changes in infrastructure demands, starting with the public cloud. In the 5G era, […]

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CPRA for Developers: Road to CCPA 2.0 Compliance

California voters passed the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) in November 2020. It replaces the 2018 California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and is often described as a cousin to the EU’s GDPR law. The law applies to all for-profit organizations within the state. It also requires compliance from anyone doing business in California or collecting […]

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AWS Week In Review – July 25, 2022

A few weeks ago, we hosted the first EMEA AWS Heroes Summit in Milan, Italy. This past week, I had the privilege to join the Americas AWS Heroes Summit in Seattle, Washington, USA. Meeting with our community experts is always inspiring and a great opportunity to learn from each other. During the Summit, AWS Heroes […]

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Amazon Prime Day 2022 – AWS for the Win!

As part of my annual tradition to tell you about how AWS makes Prime Day possible, I am happy to be able to share some chart-topping metrics (check out my 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2021 posts for a look back). My purchases this year included a first aid kit, some wood brown filament for […]

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Simplifying DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

Let’s face it, tools for infrastructure-as-code (IaC) configuration management may be vital, but they’re difficult to use. But what if it’s not so much the tools themselves as it is our understanding of them? What if we looked at provisioning and configuration systems differently and did so using vocabulary that was less confusing and more […]

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