Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Introduction to MACH Architecture

In recent years, the need to construct end-to-end digital experiences has become increasingly important. But to deliver new features and services promptly, organizations must double down on agility and reusability. As part of this trend, applications have become increasingly modular, often constructed using pre-built microservices and integrating common SaaS to avoid reinventing the wheel. MACH […]

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Dead Downtown: It’s YOUR Fault | Pentagon’s FOUR Cloud Vendors | Apple Adds MORE Price Flexibility

In this week’s The Long View: Home working is ripping the heart out of cities, the DoD’s bizarre cloud strategy, and Apple adds a $10,000 app price option. The post Dead Downtown: It’s YOUR Fault | Pentagon’s FOUR Cloud Vendors | Apple Adds MORE Price Flexibility appeared first on DevOps.com. Source: DevOps.com

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Chainguard Adds Private Edition of Code Signing Platform

Chainguard today added a private preview of a Chainguard Enforce Signing service, enabled by the open source Sigstore project, that allows developers to generate digital signatures for software artifacts using identities and one-time-use keys they create themselves. Kim Lewandowski, head of product for Chainguard, said Chainguard Enforce Signing provides an alternative to relying on a […]

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How Devs Can Improve Open Source Security in the Enterprise

Modern applications are dynamic. They’re distributed and they’re often born in the cloud. These applications can be developed on the fly, spun up and scaled quickly to meet evolving user and market demands—enabling a level of business agility that allows users to make quick, informed decisions in real-time and take advantage of opportunities as they […]

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Report: Impact of Bad Software on US Economy Reaches $2.41 Trillion

A report published this week by Synopsys in collaboration with the Consortium for Information & Software Quality (CISQ) estimated that software quality issues might adversely impact the U.S. economy to the tune of $2.41 trillion in 2022. Cybercrime losses due to a rising number of software vulnerabilities alone are on track to increase 42% in […]

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Looking to the Future of Developer Experience

Developer experience is where it’s at! Developer experience (DX) means taking a user experience approach to the developer journey. DX (also abbreviated as DevEx) is commonly applied to areas like documentation, sandbox environments, SDK ergonomics and more. By improving a developer’s experience with a tool, software providers can increase stickiness and retain more users. Nowadays, […]

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What the Convergence of Observability and Security Means for Devs

There is a scene in the movie Apollo 13 when the mission control flight director asks why the carbon dioxide scrubber in the command module was a different shape than the one used in the lunar module (and therefore incompatible). The engineer simply replied, “This just isn’t a contingency we’ve even remotely looked at.” A […]

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We’re Doing More Less Development

My roots are in software development. I’ve written tax software, SmartGrid firmware and servers, enterprise integration code for many developed and purchased servers, mapping software, cell phone firmware—the list goes on. The point is development is in my blood. When I look at something that impacts software development, I look at it through a practitioner’s […]

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Three is the Magic Number: Planning and Executing a Successful DevOps Project

Diligent preparation, clearly defined workflows and watchful monitoring are key to delivering a high-performing DevOps project. DevOps is one of the hottest buzzwords in programming, but everyone seems to have their own ideas when it comes to structuring and deploying a DevOps team. In basic terms, DevOps is the integration of developers and IT operations […]

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A History of Distributed Tracing

Organizations are increasingly using distributed tracing to monitor their complex, microservice-based architectures. Distributed tracing has become essential in microservice applications, cloud-native and distributed systems. Microservices and serverless applications can grow exponentially, which makes observing them at scale very challenging. The traditional logging method becomes expensive, and if there’s an issue, time-series data can reveal symptoms […]

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