Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Implementing SLOs-as-Code: A Case Study

This article is a preview of a talk by Stephan Lips for SLOconf 2023, on May 15-18, 2023. To watch this talk and many more like it, register for free at sloconf.com. By managing service level objectives (SLOs) as code, we can co-locate SLO definitions and ownership with the product code and team. This supports […]

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InfluxData Makes Processing Observability Data at Scale More Efficient

InfluxData today made available an update to its open source time series database that can now analyze metric, event and trace data in a single datastore with unlimited cardinality in terms of how they are aggregated. The company is now making available a single-tenant instance of InfluxDB as a managed service alongside its already-existing multi-tenant […]

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Things We Should Acknowledge, Part Three: Remotely Good

This installment of my off-and-on “Things We Should Acknowledge” series is going to focus on an area that most DevOps teams are skirting, but increasingly will not be able to: Remote work. For background, I have worked remotely for decades; my experience spans Fortune 100s, publishing companies and startups—and that’s just full-time work. I’ve worked […]

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Cycode Adds ASOC Module to Streamline DevSecOps Workflows

Cycode has added a module to its platform for mapping metadata and events using graph technology that makes it simpler for application development and cybersecurity to consolidate alerts generated by their DevSevOps tools. Lotem Guy, vice president of product for Cycode, said the Cycode Application Security Orchestration and Correlation (ASOC) module will automatically discover all […]

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Sendbird Adds API to Invoke ChatGPT From Mobile Apps

Sendbird today added an application programming interface (API) to its low-code platform for building mobile applications that enables developers to add bots that communicate with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Shailesh Nalawadi, head of product for Sendbird, said this API makes it possible to add the ability to communicate directly with the generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform from […]

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Platform Reality Has a Surprising Amount of Detail

Developer platforms and the platform teams that create them have been the center of attention for quite some time now. There have been many (wildly different) opinions about the subject, ranging from how bad the notion of a platform team is to how essential platforms are to make an organization’s DevOps journey to cloud native […]

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DORA Report 2022: The Magnitude of Software Supply Chain Security  

The term ‘software supply chain security’ (SSC) can be interpreted in many ways. Following the White House executive order in May 2021 and the European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) of 2022, both governments and corporations are taking a more active role in ensuring their software is secure. Fundamentals such as having a software bill of […]

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AWS Week in Review – April 24, 2023: Amazon CodeCatalyst, Amazon S3 on Snowball Edge, and More…

As always, there’s plenty to share this week: Amazon CodeCatalyst is now generally available, Amazon S3 is now available on Snowball Edge devices, version 1.0.0 of AWS Amplify Flutter is here, and a lot more. Let’s dive in! Last Week’s Launches Here are some of the launches that caught my eye this past week: Amazon […]

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Choose Korean in AWS Support as Your Preferred Language

Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Support in Korean as your preferred language, in addition to English, Japanese, and Chinese. As the number of customers speaking Korean grows, AWS Support is invested in providing the best support experience possible. You can now communicate with AWS Support engineers and agents in Korean when you […]

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You’re Already a Distributed Developer

For many coders, the idea of distributed systems development might seem like a dark art. They think of high-performance computing wizards crafting mysterious spells with job schedulers to work magic with hundreds of connected nodes in massively-parallel systems. Or large, distributed content delivery networks that balance resources to deliver content across the world no matter […]

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