Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

DevOps Is Not a Role — It’s a Culture

The full-stack developer is becoming increasingly rare these days. Due to the accelerating complexity of modern software development, programmers often specialize in specific languages, frameworks or levels of the software stack, such as frontend or backend. These same fractures seem to be occurring within DevOps, too. Nowadays, large companies no longer have one strain of […]

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New – Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances

Last year, during the re:Invent 2021 conference, I wrote a blog post to announce the preview of EC2 M1 Mac instances. I know many of you requested access to the preview, and we did our best but could not satisfy everybody. However, the wait is over. I have the pleasure of announcing the general availability […]

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DevOps Unbound EP 18 – Standardizing DevOps – TechStrong TV

Alan Shimel: Hey, everyone, welcome to another DevOps Unbound. If this is your first time catching a DevOps Unbound, welcome. DevOps Unbound is a biweekly video series where we talk about relevant topics in DevOps. In addition to the biweekly show, we do, it’s every four to six weeks, a live roundtable show where we […]

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Dev Job Phisher Steals $540M | Patch OpenSSL NOW | Systemd Dev Joins Microsoft

In this week’s The Long View: Spear-phishing causes $540 million loss, a high severity bug in OpenSSL might be “worse than Heartbleed,” and Lennart Poettering is now working for Microsoft. The post Dev Job Phisher Steals $540M | Patch OpenSSL NOW | Systemd Dev Joins Microsoft appeared first on DevOps.com. Source: DevOps.com

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DevOps Unbound EP 19 – How AI and ML are being used in DevOps Today – TechStrong TV

Alan Shimel: Hey, everyone. I’m Alan Shimel, CEO of MediaOps, devops.com, Container Journal, Security Boulevard, and you’re watching DevOps Unbound. DevOps Unbound is sponsored by our friends at Tricentis. So many thanks to them. And DevOps Unbound is a biweekly show where we cover topics of interest to the DevOps audience. I am the host. […]

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Environments-as-a-Service: Free Your Devs

Environments are the bane of a DevOps engineer’s existence and have been since the invention of the server. They can create giant bottlenecks that hamper productivity and suck the life and motivation out of developers. But they’re also completely necessary. DevOps teams spend a ton of time building and maintaining their development environments. They are […]

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5 Mean-Time Reliability Metrics To Follow

Most folks working in DevOps or SRE roles are familiar with metrics like mean-time-to-recovery (MTTR). Keeping track of the average time a team takes to respond to incidents is crucial to identifying bottlenecks in the support process. It’s also something executives like to show higher-ups when sharing a snapshot of overall platform performance. However, focusing […]

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Applying Automation to DevOps

In the book, “Life and the Art of Engineering,” author Haresh Sippy said, “Automation is cost-cutting by tightening the corners, not cutting them.” Today, businesses and organizations are constantly on the lookout for ways to improve productivity while reducing inefficiencies across their operations. Automation has emerged as the natural answer as it addresses these issues while […]

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Turning Off DevSecOps Noise for Functional Fidelity

Analyzing the DevOps and DevSecOps software marketplace demonstrates the high demand for tools and platforms that reduce false positives. As businesses and organizations adopt a rigorous, disciplined software development life cycle and ascribe to strict compliance frameworks, they quickly realize that automated tools can generate a substantial amount of noise, in the form of false […]

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More Than Half of DevOps Pros Have Backdoor Access to IT Infrastructure

A survey of 600 DevOps professionals conducted by strongDM, a platform for managing access to IT infrastructure, found nearly two-thirds (64%) had productivity impacted on a daily or weekly basis because of access issues. It’s not surprising that, as a result, DevOps teams created a number of workarounds to gain access, even though those methods […]

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