Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Atlassian Extends Jira’s Reach Into DevOps Workflows

Atlassian today added a range of capabilities to its Jira project management application that make it easier to manage software development projects, including a toolchain page that simplifies tool discovery for any given project. In addition, Atlassian is including a Discover tab on that page that makes it possible to track activities and set priorities […]

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5 Tips for Securing DevOps: What You Wish You Knew Sooner

Foundations and frameworks, concrete and steel—not exciting. But that’s the foundation and framing of pretty much every modern building. Everything else that is part of a building–flooring, wiring, lighting, room placement and so on—is made possible by the foundation and the framework. If you want DevOps to succeed in your organization, you have to start […]

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Shift That [bleep] Left

Seriously. The more you can shift things like security and test to the left, the more responsive the DevOps process will be. Some things are better shifted right … But only while solving the problem with shifted-left work. A good example is blocking zero-day attacks proactively while the development process fixes the code to stop […]

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Now Open–AWS Region in Spain

The AWS Region in Aragón, Spain, is now open. The official name is Europe (Spain), and the API name is eu-south-2. You can start using it today to deploy workloads and store your data in Spain. The AWS Europe (Spain) Region has three Availability Zones (AZ) that you can use to reliably spread your applications […]

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Introducing our final AWS Heroes of the year – November 2022

The AWS Heroes program celebrates and recognizes builders who are making an impact within the global AWS community. As we come to the end of 2022, the program is recognizing seven individuals who are passionate about AWS, and focused on organizing and speaking at community events, mentoring, authoring content, and even preserving wildlife. Please meet […]

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Fiberplane Notebook Tool Fosters DevOps Collaboration

Fiberplane today announced it is making available a public beta of a namesake real-time collaboration notebook specifically designed for DevOps teams that need to quickly debug IT infrastructure. Fiberplane CEO Micha Hernandez van Leuffen said in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s clear that the structure of DevOps teams has permanently changed now that […]

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SAP Adds Low-Code Platform to Build Custom Apps Faster

At the SAP TechEd 2022 conference, SAP SE today announced it has added a low-code platform, dubbed SAP Build, to its portfolio to make it simpler for organizations to build custom applications. Sebastian Schrötel, vice president and head of low-code/no-code solutions for SAP, said SAP Build is designed to make the company’s low-code tools more […]

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Critical Vulnerability Discovered in Open Source Backstage Platform

Oxeye today disclosed that it has discovered a critical vulnerability in the open source Backstage software used to build developer portals. Backstage was originally created by Spotify. A 1.5.1 update to the Backstage platform remediated a sandbox escape vulnerability that can occur via a third-party Scaffolder plug-in that could be used to conduct unauthenticated remote […]

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Why IT Teams Need Continuous Improvement

In the dynamic world of software delivery, an ‘if it’s not broke don’t fix it’ philosophy won’t get you very far—even when your software and systems are working as planned.  Software is more complex than ever and innovation is exploding across markets. To keep up with constant innovation from your competition in a global marketplace, […]

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Codenotary Automates SBOM Creation

Codenotary today launched a tool that enables an application to automatically generate a software bill of materials (SBOM) by adding a single line to its source code. Codenotary CEO Moshe Bar said TrueSBOM makes it possible to self-report the components used to construct applications to any organization that uses them for the first time. In […]

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