Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

How Open Source Can Enhance Developer Experience

Developer experience (DX) is becoming more and more of a competitive advantage among developer-facing tools and platforms. A great developer experience that’s easy to follow and implement can truly help a software tool stand out from the crowd. Simultaneously, open source software is all the rage. In fact, a recent StackOverflow survey found open source […]

0 Comments

Read More

BMC Adds Generative AI Capabilities to Helix Management Platform

BMC today revealed it is embedding generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities across its BMC Helix service and operations management platforms. BMC CTO Ram Chakravarti said the company is incorporating the open source GPT-J large language models (LLMS) to build generative AI models. Those models are optimized for specific domains using data collected by BMC and […]

0 Comments

Read More

Discover How AWS Designed Silicon Fuels Customer Outcomes at AWS Silicon Innovation Day

We hope you will join us on Wednesday, June 21, for a free-to-attend online event, AWS Silicon Innovation Day. AWS will stream the event simultaneously across multiple platforms, including LinkedIn Live, Twitter, YouTube, and Twitch. AWS Silicon Innovation Day is a one-day virtual event on June 21, 2023, that will allow you to better understand […]

0 Comments

Read More

It Is Time for DevOps to Focus on Ops

The advent of both Agile development and DevOps were great steps in improving an IT process that had become ossified, with policies that alternated between resistance to change and trying to do things better/faster. Between them, Agile and DevOps broke the cycle of resistance … but only for development. The confusion around CI/CD is a […]

0 Comments

Read More

HashiCorp Releases Slew of Updates to Improve DevSecOps

At a HashiDays event this week, HashiCorp launched updates to its Terraform implementation and a software-as-a-service offering, dubbed HCP Vault Secrets, that promise to simplify infrastructure security and ensure that secrets are not leaked. In addition, HashiCorp has added a self-hosted edition of its remote access security tool, Boundary, that can now also record SSH […]

0 Comments

Read More

New – Amazon S3 Dual-Layer Server-Side Encryption with Keys Stored in AWS Key Management Service (DSSE-KMS)

Today, we are launching Amazon S3 dual-layer server-side encryption with keys stored in AWS Key Management Service (DSSE-KMS), a new encryption option in Amazon S3 that applies two layers of encryption to objects when they are uploaded to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket. DSSE-KMS is designed to meet National Security Agency CNSSP […]

0 Comments

Read More

Grafana Labs Slashes Time to Create Observability Dashboards

At its GrafanaCON 2023 event today, Grafana Labs updated its core platform for visualizing data which makes it simpler to set up dashboards in minutes. The updates are part of a celebration of the 10th anniversary of a tool that is now widely used by DevOps teams. Ryan McKinley, a distinguished engineer for Grafana Labs, […]

0 Comments

Read More

Simplify How You Manage Authorization in Your Applications with Amazon Verified Permissions – Now Generally Available

When developing a new application or integrating an existing one into a new environment, user authentication and authorization require significant effort to be correctly implemented. In the past, you would have built your own authentication system, but today you can use an external identity provider like Amazon Cognito. Yet, authorization logic is typically implemented in […]

0 Comments

Read More

The Tragedy of the Data Commons: Balancing Innovation With Risk

Clean drinking water and fisheries are classic examples of the “tragedy of the commons,” the problem in economics and ecology where an individual is incentivized to consume as much of a shared resource as possible at the expense of the larger society. With fisheries, for example, a logical fisherman would like to make as many […]

0 Comments

Read More

Avoiding the Pain of a ‘Resume-Driven Architecture’

Successful new technologies follow a predictable arc, from initial innovation to technical gold rush and, ultimately, to mass market adoption. As a consequence, they achieve strong standardization and productization. Being highly attuned to where a specific field lies on the maturity arc is how you yield the greatest benefits to a business. But what happens […]

0 Comments

Read More