Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

AWS Weekly Roundup: Strands Agents, AWS Transform, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, AWS CodeBuild, and more (May 19, 2025)

Many events are taking place in this period! Last week I was at the AI Week in Italy. This week I’ll be in Zurich for the AWS Community Day – Switzerland. On May 22, you can join us remotely for AWS Cloud Infrastructure Day to learn about cutting-edge advances across compute, AI/ML, storage, networking, serverless […]

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GitLab Extends Scope and Reach of Core CI/CD Platform

GitLab Inc. has updated its core continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to natively provide more artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, along with built-in software artifact management capabilities and more robust security tools. Source: DevOps.com

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Streamlining CI/CD: Building Efficient Pipelines With GitHub Actions for Modern DevOps 

How to use GitHub Actions to enhance your CI/CD pipelines, reduce operational overhead and create an automation and collaboration culture.  Source: DevOps.com

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OpenAI Codex: Transforming Software Development with AI Agents

OpenAI’s Codex transforms software development with cloud-based AI agents that can tackle multiple coding tasks simultaneously, enhancing developer productivity. Source: DevOps.com

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Windsurf Launches SWE-1: AI Models Built for the Entire Software Engineering Process

Windsurf has unveiled its first family of specialized models designed to transform developers’ work in a significant development for AI-assisted software engineering. The SWE-1 family, announced on May 15, 2025, represents a fundamental shift in AI assistance for developers, moving beyond mere code generation to encompass the entire software engineering workflow. Beyond Just Writing Code […]

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Agentic Process Automation This Way Comes to Software Development

The shift from robotic process automation (RPA) to agentic process automation (APA), prominently on display at Automation Anywhere’s Imagine conference in Orlando this week, promises significant implications for the software development community—particularly for low-code/no-code and citizen developers. Automation Anywhere, a provider of automation platforms and framework, articulated how APA, powered by agentic AI, will redefine […]

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If Planes Can Fly Themselves Then Why Can’t IT Management be Autonomous? 

Autonomous reliability platforms of the future will surface actionable insights and be competent enough to make autonomous decisions. Source: DevOps.com

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New Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to accelerate AI innovations

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA B200 to address customer needs for high performance and scalability in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and high performance computing (HPC) applications. Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances accelerate a broad range of GPU-enabled workloads but are especially […]

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Survey Surfaces AI Contest for the Hearts and Minds of DevOps Engineers

A report published by the Futurum Group finds organizations are exploring multiple paths to employing artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities across the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Over the next 12 to 18 months organizations plan to increase spending on not only on AI code generation (83%) and agentic AI technologies (76%), but also existing familiar tools […]

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Accelerate CI/CD pipelines with the new AWS CodeBuild Docker Server capability

Starting today, you can use AWS CodeBuild Docker Server capability to provision a dedicated and persistent Docker server directly within your CodeBuild project. With Docker Server capability, you can accelerate your Docker image builds by centralizing image building to a remote host, which reduces wait times and increases overall efficiency. From my benchmark, with this […]

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