Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Four Technologies Transforming Data and Driving Change

Data is getting a facelift in 2023 courtesy of event-driven architecture (EDA). These four technologies are set to transform DevOps and IT operations over the next year–whether it be how companies make use of data or the customer experience they offer. 1. Applied Observability: A Powerful Source of Decision-Making Applied observability has been recognized by […]

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Neural Hashing: The Future of AI-Powered Search

In recent years, vector embeddings have emerged as a promising technology to power information retrieval projects. Vectors use mathematics to represent words and encapsulate meaning. Combined with deep learning algorithms, you can build powerful AI search applications. However, recent advances have shown that another kind of technology – neural hashes – can outperform vectors while […]

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How Database DevOps Fuels Digital Transformation

In today’s real-time, hyperconnected reality, data is a core driver behind most digital strategies. User data is constantly gathered and shared across various technology backends and platforms—as is system performance data to inform engineers. Data is pivotal for everything, from generating machine learning models, refining user experiences and even supporting new data-centric services. But although […]

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AWS Chatbot Now Integrates With Microsoft Teams

I am pleased to announce that, starting today, you can use AWS Chatbot to troubleshoot and operate your AWS resources from Microsoft Teams. Communicating and collaborating on IT operation tasks through chat channels is known as ChatOps. It allows you to centralize the management of infrastructure and applications, as well as to automate and streamline […]

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Large Organizations Are Embracing AIOps

A survey of 265 IT leaders found the primary reason organizations are applying artificial intelligence to IT operations (AIOps) is 60% is to improve service and application availability and performance (60%), followed closely by automation of operations (58%) and processes (54%). Conducted on behalf of OpsRamp, a provider of an AIOps platform, the survey polled […]

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What NetOps Teams Should Know Before Starting Automation Journeys

Automation has captured the human imagination since the earliest days of recorded history. A fanciful example of this comes from Homer’s classic “The Iliad” in the form of a bronze robot called Talos, which was designed to automatically monitor and defend the island of Crete from marauding intruders. The appeal of automation for IT organizations, […]

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DevOps Adoption in Salesforce Environments is Advancing

A global survey of DevOps professionals building apps in Salesforce environments found 44% of respondents reported their organization has a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform in place, with another 39% planning to adopt one. The survey, conducted by Gearset, a provider of a DevOps platform for building custom applications in Salesforce environments, polled 1,254 DevOps […]

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How Bazel and GitHub Can Fix the Dependency Availability Problem

Recently, GitHub upgraded the internal version of Git they use to produce repository archives. You’ve probably used these archives before if you’ve downloaded a .zip or .tar.gz file from a repository at a particular version. GitHub produces those archives on demand using Git archive and caches them for a short time. Upgrading Git regularly is […]

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How Open Source Can Benefit AI Development

Enterprises are increasingly reliant upon open source software. A full 95% of IT leaders say open source tools are key to their enterprise infrastructure. Simultaneously, we’ve witnessed a sharp increase in the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Most IT divisions want to take advantage of AI in some form, and open […]

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Amazon Linux 2023, a Cloud-Optimized Linux Distribution with Long-Term Support

I am excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023). AWS has provided you with a cloud-optimized Linux distribution since 2010. This is the third generation of our Amazon Linux distributions. Every generation of Amazon Linux distribution is secured, optimized for the cloud, and receives long-term AWS support. We built Amazon Linux […]

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