Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Opsera Brings DevOps Intelligence to GitHub Actions

Opsera today announced it has extended its platform for collecting DevOps intelligence to include support for the GitHub Actions continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Opsera CTO Kumar Chivukula said as GitHub Actions is adopted more widely, there is a growing need to provide greater visibility into Git-based workflows in real-time. A GitHub Actions Insights module […]

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Break Open the Black Box of Software Development

If you asked an airline executive what their biggest expense was just a few decades ago, they would’ve easily answered, “Jet fuel.” These days, you’d be hard-pressed to find an executive in any industry that wouldn’t answer with, “Software.” But here’s the difference: With jet fuel, that executive would have told you that they can […]

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Know What You Want and Need

Over the years, what we purchase from vendors has changed significantly. It used to be that IT would define a need, go out and find a bit of software to solve it, install and configure the software and, in most cases, spend the majority of time on the project getting it to work correctly in […]

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Nobl9 Simplifies SLO Identification

Nobl9 today added a Replay capability to its service level objectives (SLO) management platform that makes it simpler to collect the historical data a DevOps team needs to get started. Nobl9 COO Kit Merker said Nobl9 Replay makes service level indicator (SLI) data instantly available in minutes using 30 days of historical data collected from […]

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Update to Open Source ZAP Tool Improves DAST Performance

An update to the OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) open source dynamic application security testing (DAST) tool made available today improves performance by employing a multi-threaded passive scanner engine. Version 2.12.0 of ZAP also adds support for HTTP/2 and should make it simpler to update the vulnerability scanning tool by making the spider that discovers […]

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The Dog Ate My DevOps Dozen

As the new Techstrong Group team member, I wasn’t familiar with the DevOps Dozen awards. The basics: It’s a cool program that recognizes excellence across a number of categories in the DevOps world. The winners will be announced during our Predict 23 conference on January 12. I have to tell you that the submission process was […]

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PlanSecOps: Incorporating Security Strategies in Design

Organizations that don’t adapt and change aren’t likely to survive. The same can be said about DevSecOps, a discipline created to ensure security is baked into the software development process, not an add-on after the code is approved. And as much as DevSecOps has changed the software development world for the better, it is time […]

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AWS Week in Review – October 31, 2022

No tricks, just treats in this weekly roundup of news and announcements. Let’s switch our AWS Management Console into dark mode and dive right into it. Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week: AWS Local Zones in Hamburg and Warsaw now generally available – AWS Local Zones help […]

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The Scariest Things About SCA

It is a time of ghouls, mischievous spirits and David S. Pumpkins. In the spirit of Halloween, here are the top five scariest limitations of software composition analysis (SCA) tools that are enough to send shivers down your spine. Read on … if you dare! 1. SCA Scans Only Your Application Code SCA’s scope is […]

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One-Third of Developers Seeking New Job

With the relentless pace of enterprise digital transformation efforts, even in this softening economy, developers still face an enviable job market. The number of open job positions in computer occupations is greater than 804,000, according to National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) analysis and, at 326,000 vacancies, software developers have by far the largest number […]

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