Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Observability Costs are too Damn High

Today, any business that deploys software faces an obscene amount of expenses. It has to pay for cloud hosting, assuming of course that it’s among the 92% of companies that use the cloud. It needs trustworthy networks to connect its apps to its employees and customers. It probably pays for a suite of cybersecurity software […]

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Black Box SLIs

This article is a preview of a talk by Stephan Lips for SLOconf 2023, on May 15 – 18. To watch this talk and many more like it, register for free at sloconf.com. SLOs are fast becoming the industry standard to measure reliability and help teams decide when to prioritize it. The first step in […]

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Introducing Bob’s Used Books—a New, Real-World, .NET Sample Application

Today, I’m happy to announce that a new open-source sample application, a fictitious used books eCommerce store we call Bob’s Used Books, is available for .NET developers working with AWS. The .NET advocacy and development teams at AWS talk to customers regularly and, during those conversations, often receive requests for more in-depth samples. Customers tell […]

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New – Set Up Your AWS Notifications in One Place

Today we are launching AWS User Notifications, a single place in the AWS console to set up and view AWS notifications across multiple AWS accounts, Regions, and services. You can centrally set up and view notifications from over 100 AWS services, such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) objects events, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud […]

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mabl Adds Load Testing Tool to Test Automation Suite

mabl today added a load testing capability to its portfolio of application testing tools that it makes available via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. That capability promises to make it simpler to streamline testing within a DevOps workflow by making available load testing tools that measure application peformance alongside existing mabl tools accessible via a test […]

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Honeycomb Taps ChatGPT to Simplify Observability

Honeycomb today added a Query Assistant to its observability platform that uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform to launch queries via a natural language interface rather than having to master a query language. That capability complements an existing tool based on machine learning algorithms, dubbed BubbleUP, that DevOps teams already use to debug […]

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How DevSecOps Addresses Supply Chain Security

“The absence of security in the initial stages of system engineering is the single most significant cybersecurity gap and risk in modern system development.” This quote from tech entrepreneur Linda Rawson is a good reminder for the current cybersecurity threat situation. With software supply chain attacks increasing in aggressiveness and sophistication, organizations need to understand […]

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DevOps Onramp: Security on the Rise

I don’t normally advertise stuff in my blog, because that’s not what it is here for. It is here to offer you the thoughts and ponderings of someone like you, and advice you didn’t ask for. But today we’ll make an exception since I also blathered for Techstrong Group recently, and soon you’ll be able […]

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GitLab Allies With Google to Bring AI to DevOps

GitLab extended its alliance with Google as part of an effort to bring more generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to DevOps workflows. The GitLab suite of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications already reside on the Google cloud platform to provide GitLab with the foundation of data required to train those AI models. Over the course of the […]

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Survey: Most Open Source Software Maintainers Want to Get Paid

A survey of 339 maintainers of open source software projects found 60% of them classified themselves as unpaid hobbyists versus only 13% who said they earn most or all of their income from maintaining projects. Slightly less than a quarter (23%) described themselves as semi-professionals, earning some of their income from maintaining projects. Overall, more […]

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