Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

New – AWS BugBust: It’s Game Over for Bugs

Today, we are launching AWS BugBust, the world’s first global challenge to fix one million bugs and reduce technical debt by over $100 million. You might have participated in a bug bash before. Many of the software companies where I’ve worked (including Amazon) run them in the weeks before launching a new product or service. […]

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Gotta Fix ‘Em All: AWS BugBust 2021

Software bugs are vexing. Code reviews and error finding aren’t a particularly fun part of a developer’s job description. Finding bugs is tedious, time-consuming and hard on your eyes. Bugs not only wreak havoc on your code, they wreak havoc on your day. But what if bashing bugs could earn you a payoff greater than […]

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DevOps Institute Announces Upcoming Virtual Conference Lineup to Upskill IT Professionals, DevOps Practitioners and Decision-Makers

One-day conferences focus on the ‘how-to’ of DevOps, CI/CD, DevSecOps and Observability sponsored by Harness, RedHat, Accurics, GitLab, Splunk and more Boca Raton, FL, June 24, 2021 – DevOps Institute, a global professional association for advancing the human elements of DevOps, today announced its virtual conference lineup through the third quarter of 2021. Upcoming conferences […]

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SREs Say AIOps Doesn’t Live Up to the Hype

What can you expect when investing in artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps)? Real-time visibility across huge volumes of information. Lightning-fast event correlation and anomaly detection. Automated remediation and self-healing, without Ops personnel having to lift a finger. It all sounds amazing—at least, if you believe the marketing hype. But do those kinds of AIOps […]

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Hasura Extends Scope of GraphQL API Platform

During its online an HasuraCon ’21 conference, Hasura today announced that it has made it possible for developers to employ GraphQL application programming interface (APIs) to launch queries against data residing in multiple databases. At the same time, Hasura announced a preview of schema sharing capabilities along with support for workflows based on GitOps processes […]

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Bringing z/OS Systems into Today’s Modern Application Development

Bringing z/OS Systems into Today’s Modern App Development Modern application development is all about automation, addressing the concerns of developers and the operational side of the house, and supporting the common CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) approach needed to keep apps up to date. Developers typically make use of a variety of open source and other […]

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Salesforce Pilots Series of DevOps Initiatives

At its online TrailheaDX 2021 conference, Salesforce today unveiled a DevOps Center pilot that provides a portal through which organizations can track and manage changes to Salesforce applications along with a unified command line interface (CLI) for all its applications. In addition, Salesforce plans to add Salesforce Functions to enable developers to deploy code in […]

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Plutora Dives Deeper into Value Stream Analytics Data

Plutora announced today it has extended the capabilities of its value stream management (VSM) platform to include a common object data model that more efficiently normalizes data collected from multiple DevOps tools and platforms. Jeff Keyes, vice president of product marketing and strategy for Plutora, said the goal is to expand the level of scale […]

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GitLab Updates Approach to Integrating DevOps Workflows

GitLab today took the wraps off a major update to its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that embeds analytics tools in workflows to identify the root cause of inefficiencies, among other additional capabilities. David DeSanto, senior director for product management at GitLab, said that capability is part of an ongoing effort to include value stream […]

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How Containers Simplify DevOps Workflows and CI/CD Pipelines

DevOps enables organizations to capitalize on the flexibility of cloud resources in real-time, which is a huge game changer. Just as the adoption of Agile methodology can make a development team more responsive, DevOps revolutionizes implementation of IT objectives from end to end, from a waterfall-style process gating company productivity to a dynamic process that […]

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