Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Stream Big, Think Bigger: Analyze Streaming Data at Scale

Data streams are all the rage. Once a niche element of data engineering, streaming data is the new normal—more than 80% of Fortune 100 companies have adopted Apache Kafka, the most common streaming platform, and every major cloud provider (AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure) has launched its own streaming service. This shift is […]

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What’s Ahead for the Future of Data Streaming?

Data is everywhere. It’s being produced by almost everyone and everything around us. For businesses to be competitive, they need to build resilient, scalable systems that can efficiently tap into and react to this ever-increasing volume of data. Companies are meeting this need by moving to real-time data streaming to develop new solutions and improve […]

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The Strategic Product Backlog: Lead, Follow, Watch and Explore

The economic outlook for 2023 suggests many organizations will be leading through a period of resource scarcity as IT budgets are scrutinized and organizational priorities are re-evaluated. For the product manager, smaller budgets and fewer resources place even greater emphasis on ensuring alignment between enterprise priorities and the product backlog. Many tools are available to […]

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Atlassian Extends Automation Framework’s Reach

Atlassian this week extended its namesake automation framework to include its Confluence collaboration software. In addition, it’s now possible to automatically create bi-directional branches in Bitbucket, GitHub or GitLab platforms from within the company’s Jira project management application. At the same time, it’s now possible to automatically generate feature flags from within Jira through integration […]

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Software Supply Chain Security Debt is Increasing: Here’s How To Pay If Off

Last year, the world woke up to the software supply chain dilemma. We saw a spike in attacks as hackers sought to exploit known and unknown vulnerabilities within dependencies. There is also the chance of typosquatting, and malicious code commits to consider. Such supply chain attacks have increased by a shocking 742% over the past […]

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GitLab Strengthens Remote DevOps Management

GitLab this week moved to provide remote developers with access to a more secure continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform while at the same time adding a dashboard that makes it simpler to track the overall status of application development projects. David DeSanto, chief product officer for GitLab, said GitLab Remote Development takes advantage of an […]

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Microsoft Outage Outrage: Was it BGP or DNS?

All of Microsoft’s cloud services go down, everywhere. Redmond’s IaaS, PaaS and SaaS—including GitHub—were dead for several hours, and are still running unreliably—despite Microsoft saying it’s fixed. The post Microsoft Outage Outrage: Was it BGP or DNS? appeared first on DevOps.com. Source: DevOps.com

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The Database of the Future: Seven Key Principles

The database of the future will be more than just a database. Instead, it will be a platform that focuses on the user experience and abstracts the technology. Looking at the evolution of application development, an enormous amount of effort has made it easier to build and deploy applications. Similarly, databases need to evolve for […]

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Harness Acquires Propelo to Surface Software Engineering Bottlenecks

Harness this week announced it has acquired Propelo, a provider of an analytics tool that identifies bottlenecks in software engineering processes. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The Propelo offering will be made available as a module, dubbed Harness Software Engineering Insights, that organizations can choose within the company’s overall continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) […]

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Don’t Hire for Product Expertise

We all know the jokes about talent recruitment that “requires a century of experience in AI/ML.” With the number of layoffs, no doubt this type of approach will get worse. But that is not generally a tech problem; it is an HR problem–the problem of having people hire in tech that aren’t active in or […]

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