Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Adopting Shift Left Testing in Software QA

I am often asked to recommend best practices for building software testing programs. The problem is that it depends on your definition of “best.” What works for an innovative startup developing software and deploying agile development sprints is not necessarily going to suit an established public company launching a new web product. The software development […]

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Introducing Amazon Neptune Serverless – A Fully Managed Graph Database that Adjusts Capacity for Your Workloads

Amazon Neptune is a fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets. With Neptune, you can use open and popular graph query languages to execute powerful queries that are easy to write and perform well on connected data. You can use Neptune for […]

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JFrog Gives Pyrsia to CD Foundation to Secure Software Supply Chains

At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference this week, JFrog announced it contributed the Pyrsia project, which uses blockchain technologies to secure software packages, to the Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation. Stephen Chin, vice president of developer relations at JFrog and governing board member for the CD Foundation, said the goal is to increase the […]

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Session Tokens Vs. JWTs: Choosing Your Session Management Solution

In the world of authentication today, session tokens and JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) are the two most popular ways to manage user sessions and maintain a user’s authentication state between calls. Impassioned debates pit these solutions against each other, but each has pros and cons worth evaluating. Depending on the needs of your application, it’s […]

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Where Does Your Data Go?

One of the most interesting developments in security and compliance in recent years is the ability to follow a piece of data through an application from input to consumption and see each bit that touches it. For me, the reason this is so interesting is that it allows postmortems to actually determine exactly what was […]

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AWS Batch for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

Today I’m pleased to announce AWS Batch for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). AWS Batch for Amazon EKS is ideal for customers who no longer want to shoulder the burden of configuring, fine-tuning, and managing Kubernetes clusters and pods to use with their batch processing workflows. Furthermore, there is no charge for this service. […]

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Three Ways to Speed up SAST

In modern, continuous software development life cycle (SDLC) processes, when code is written and before it’s committed to the repository, it’s run through testing, which may include unit testing, regression testing or static application security testing (SAST). The benefit of SAST for DevSecOps is the real-time feedback it provides developers as they create and make […]

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SaaS Data Backup and the API Bottleneck

The need to protect SaaS data has never been greater. A recent global survey from Odaseva found that 51% of ransomware attacks are targeting SaaS data, and they are more likely to succeed (52%) than were attacks on cloud, endpoint and on-premises data.  But there are plenty of reasons beyond the threat of ransomware to […]

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AWS Week in Review – October 24, 2022

Last week, we announced plans to launch the AWS Asia Pacific (Bangkok) Region, which will become our third AWS Region in Southeast Asia. This Region will have three Availability Zones and will give AWS customers in Thailand the ability to run workloads and store data that must remain in-country. In the Works – AWS Region […]

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Introduction to Cloud Custodian

Organizations continue to increase their footprint in the cloud. Yet, applying governance and enforcing policies across multiple cloud environments at scale is a challenging endeavor. Organizations typically have governance policies written in English, but translating them into enforceable code has historically required some custom workarounds. In the same vein as infrastructure-as-code (IaC), DevOps engineers now […]

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