Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Git for Mainframe: Back to the Future 

Software delivery modernization should be done with care, especially with mission-critical mainframe apps. But for some, modernization will feel like a trip back to the future. Mainframe applications are typically systems of record with high-value transactions, significant compliance risk and an essential need for stability and security. They’ve been running reliably, often for decades, with […]

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This is Not Just a Test: DevOps and the Need to Automate

Creating software is as much about the process as it is about the product. In recent years, we’ve seen the speed of innovation reach new heights due to more efficient development and quality control. DevOps has further accelerated development by combining software and operations in unified, self-improving teams. With automation taking care of rote tasks, […]

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Why We Still Need Specialists

A few years back, I wrote here that specialists—particularly infrastructure specialists—were not going anywhere. I think it is worth updating that prediction and reminding you all that specialists across the bulk of DevOps subdomains are still necessary—even if you have broken down their silos. Spend time in any of the variety of places that DevOps […]

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vFunction Tool Uses AI to Help Convert Monolithic Java Apps

vFunction today added the ability to employ artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically assess the level of effort required to convert a monolithic Java application into a set of microservices. Bob Quillin, chief ecosystem officer for vFunction, said the goal is to make it simpler for IT teams to more effectively employ the company’s vFunction Application […]

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Database Migration From Microsoft Azure to Snowflake on AWS: Part 2

In part one of this blog series, we looked at our approach to migration by leveraging the Azure data factory, tuning the performance of Data Factory Pipeline, using Parquet files and increasing computing power.  In this blog, we’ll look at some of the challenges encountered during the migration, cost-saving actions and our approach to data […]

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Libbpf Vs. BCC for BPF Development

If you’re into Linux development, you’ve probably heard BPF mentioned over the last few years. BPF stands for Berkeley Packet Filter, and the technology has a large number of use cases. BPF apps can get deep access into an operating system and enable you to perform tasks such as high-performance load balancing, DDoS mitigation and […]

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Applause Report Surfaces Functional Testing Issues

An analysis of more than 340,000 bugs collected by Applause, a provider of a testing platform designed to integrate with a range of DevOps platforms, found functional bugs accounted for 68% of issues. The research gathered data from 13,000 mobile devices and 1,000 unique desktops running 500 versions of operating systems and found that the […]

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AWS Week in Review – May 2, 2022

This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! Wow, May already! Here in the Pacific Northwest, spring is in full bloom and nature has emerged completely from her winter slumbers. It feels that way here at AWS, too, […]

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Self-Service Helps Devs Solve Cloud Security and Compliance

Organizations that need compliance must follow a growing number of security standards—PCI, HIPAA, SOC 2 and GDPR just to name a few. Every new standard gives rise to an exhaustive list of hard-to-implement security controls. Cloud providers like AWS have tried to help, but there is still a lot left for developers to do to […]

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Shedding Light On Toil: Ways Engineers Can Reduce Toil

It comes in many shapes and sizes and is embraced as a necessary evil. It lurks in the shadows, emerging now and again to stealthily creep into our workflows, where it feasts on our perceived shame. If not pruned, it grows and wraps its tendrils around the workforce, draining the energy out of every digital […]

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