Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Spotify Adds More Plugins for Backstage Developer Portal

Spotify this week added additional plugins for its open source Backstage platform that is used to build developer portals. The new plugins make it simpler to address role-based access and access Insights, a tool from Spotify that tracks Backstage usage trends. In addition, Spotify is also enhancing a Soundcheck plugin for Backstage that is used […]

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Microservices Sucks — Amazon Goes Back to Basics

In this week’s #TheLongView: Amazon Prime Video has ditched its use of microservices-cum-serverless, reverting to a traditional, monolithic architecture. It vastly improved the workload’s cost and scalability. The post Microservices Sucks — Amazon Goes Back to Basics appeared first on DevOps.com. Source: DevOps.com

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AWS Converts Cedar Policy-as-Code Tool to Open Source Project

At the Open Source Summit North America conference today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it is making Cedar, a language for defining permissions as policies that includes automated reasoning to mathematically prove an IT environment is secure, available as an open source project. In addition, AWS launched SnapChange, an open source fuzz testing tool that […]

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Nixpkgs: How to Build Better, More Open Software

The world we know today depends in fundamental ways on open source software. As providers of this software, package managers serve their respective ecosystems from their centralized, opaque hubs in ways that are sometimes difficult to reconcile with the open source nature of the software they’re serving. I want to talk about the extent to […]

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The Right Tool for the Job: AI Edition

(Actually, the right job for the tool.) We are currently in a really weird space with regard to AI capability. For my AI friends, I will make the disclaimer that what we call AI today is not actually AI, it is more akin to LiSP “AI” than actual intelligence (and, in reality, is firmly somewhere […]

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New Storage-Optimized Amazon EC2 I4g Instances: Graviton Processors and AWS Nitro SSDs

Today we are launching I4g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors that deliver up to 15% better compute performance than our other storage-optimized instances. With up to 64 vCPUs, 512 GiB of memory, and 15 TB of NVMe storage, one of the six instance sizes is bound to be a great fit for your storage-intensive […]

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GitGuardian Survey Surfaces Secrets Management Challenges

A survey of 507 IT decision-makers in the U.S. and the United Kingdom published today found 75% of respondents said a secret leaked from at least one application, with 60% noting that the leak caused issues for either the company, employees or both. Conducted by Sapio Research on behalf of GitGuardian, a provider of a […]

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Grafana Labs Reins in Cost of Storing Observability Data

Grafana Labs today made available an ability to customize what observability data is collected via its managed cloud service. This capability can help reduce storage costs in addition to enhancing the dashboard Grafana provides to make it simpler to track metrics usage. Wayne Jin, vice president of product marketing for Grafana Labs, said both capabilities […]

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Consider Performance, Growth & Budget When Buying Data Analytics

So, your business needs to invest in data analytics technology to improve efficiencies, competitive advantage or business outcomes. There are a ton of things to consider, but underlying each decision are three driving factors: Performance – The need to meet service level agreements. Growth – The need to accommodate success, as well as deal with […]

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Why We Need to Rethink Data Pipelines

Data is the fuel that powers modern business. But as demand for data surges, so does the pressure on data leaders and practitioners to deliver it. Businesses need resilient data pipelines that deliver critical insight for real-time decision-making to users on demand. However, against the backdrop of today’s chaotic modern data ecosystems, this is much […]

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