Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

DevOps Done Right: How to Succeed in DevOps From Day One

Whether you are diving into DevOps for the first time or trying to do it right this time, DevOps Onramp provides all the information you need for a successful DevOps journey. Join us on May 4, 2023, to learn how to get started with DevOps—and how to do it right. You’ll learn: DevOps best practices, […]

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The Evolution of DevOps: Developer Productivity and Platforms

This article is part two in a series of three on the rise of platform engineering and its role in improving the developer experience. Read part one here. Developer experience is business-critical in organizations of all sizes and across all industries. In the first article of this series, I make the case that the cloud-native […]

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Understanding the Infrastructure Automation Maturity Model

Nearly every company wants to evolve its digital transformation and increase the pace of software delivery and operations. And infrastructure automation is a new means to achieve these ends. It supports the emerging discipline of platform engineering and can increase scalability and reactivity to unforeseen events, enabling software ecosystems to be more anti-fragile. Increased infrastructure […]

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Akamai Makes Case For Next Era of Cloud Computing

Akamai Technologies today unveiled a cloud computing service that combines its ability to deploy applications at the edge with the cloud platform it gained via its acquisition of Linode. Shawn Michels, vice president of product management for compute and apps at Akamai, said Akamai Connected Cloud will provide the foundation for running a new generation […]

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New Graviton3-Based General Purpose (m7g) and Memory-Optimized (r7g) Amazon EC2 Instances

We’ve come a long way since the launch of the m1.small instance in 2006, adding instances with additional memory, compute power, and your choice of Intel, AMD, or Graviton processors. The original general-purpose “one size fits all” instance has evolved into six families, each one optimized for specific uses cases, with over 600 generally available […]

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Week in Review – February 13, 2023

AWS announced 32 capabilities since we published the last Week in Review blog post a week ago. I also read a couple of other news and blog posts. Here is my summary. The VPC section of the AWS Management Console now allows you to visualize your VPC resources, such as the relationships between a VPC […]

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Taking the Modular Route

In today’s world of continuous software development and integration, removing bottlenecks and increasing efficiency is of utmost importance. One surefire way to improve this efficiency is leaning into modularity–or ‘taking the modular route.’ In software engineering, modularity refers to building complex products or processes using individually distinct functional modules. An analogous way to describe this […]

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Graduating From DevOps to MLOps? 5 Tools to Help

DevOps is a set of practices that aims to bridge the gap between software development and operations. It aims to improve collaboration and communication between these two teams and to automate the process of software delivery so that changes can be made and deployed more quickly and easily. This can include continuous integration, continuous delivery […]

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Data Mobility: Why it’s a Must and How to Achieve It

The workplace has undergone a drastic change, and so has the way companies need to move their data. Wondering how those two points are connected? Let’s dig in. It’s clear that remote work is here to stay: Just over a quarter (26%) of U.S. employees are currently working remotely, and a staggering 36.2 million Americans […]

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Lineaje Unfurls Platform for Creating and Managing SBOMs

Lineaje this week unfurled a platform for creating and managing the software bills of materials (SBOMs) that are increasingly mandated by enterprise IT organizations and government agencies. Fresh from raising $7 million in seed funding, Lineaje CEO Javed Hasan said the SBOM360 platform provides a simpler way to manage all the SBOMs that will soon […]

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