Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Infrastructure as Code, Security Blind Spots, and the Messy Reality of DevOps

I’ve spent most of my career in infrastructure and reliability engineering, from years as an SRE at Google to leading teams at Facebook and now building Spacelift. Along the way, I’ve watched entire paradigms rise and fall, seen technologies mature, and learned some hard lessons about where DevOps and security meet—and where they clash. The […]

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Survey Sees Developers Embracing AI Faster than Project Leaders

A survey of 1,129 developers and 50 project managers suggests that individual developers are significantly further ahead when it comes to embracing AI than managers of application development projects. Conducted by BairesDev, a provider of software development services, the application developers surveyed said they are now saving on average 7.3 hours of work per week, […]

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Beyond the Platform: How Enterprises Can Unify Their DevOps Toolchains for Better Governance and AI Readiness

For over a decade, the core mission of enterprise IT has been to accelerate innovation. This drive has led to a fundamental shift in how software is built, favoring team autonomy and the freedom to choose the best tools for the job. Whether it’s a specific CI/CD pipeline, a new testing framework, or a specialized […]

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Monitor, analyze, and manage capacity usage from a single interface with Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager

Today, I’m happy to announce Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager, a centralized solution to monitor, analyze, and manage capacity usage across all accounts and AWS Regions from a single interface. This service aggregates capacity information with hourly refresh rates and provides prioritized optimization opportunities, streamlining capacity management workflows that previously required custom automation or manual data […]

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ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP Access with Serious Responsibilities

OpenAI recently released Developer Mode for ChatGPT, and it’s not for everyone. This beta feature provides full Model Context Protocol (MCP) client support, granting complete access to both read and write operations across your connected tools. But here’s what you need to understand up front: this is powerful, and it’s dangerous. What Developer Mode Actually […]

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Massive VS Code Secrets Leak Puts Focus on Extensions, AI: Wiz

Researchers with cybersecurity firm Wiz earlier this year discovered, almost by chance, a significant supply chain risk and massive secrets leak in the Visual Studio Code and OpenVSX marketplaces that they said put a focus on the ongoing security issues presented by extensions and plugins. In their months-long investigation with Microsoft, the researchers found that […]

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Survey Surfaces Widespread Adoption of AI to Improve DevSecOps

A global survey of 1,015 IT professionals with responsibility for application security finds more than three quarters (77%) are using artificial intelligence (AI), with another 13% considering adoption. Conducted by Fastly, a provider of a content delivery network (CDN) service, the survey also finds 25% of survey respondents using AI have fully integrated into their […]

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MCPTotal Launches to Power Secure Enterprise MCP Workflows

New York, USA, New York, 15th October 2025, CyberNewsWire Source: DevOps.com

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Introducing Amazon EBS Volume Clones: Create instant copies of your EBS volumes

  As someone that used to work at Sun Microsystems, where ZFS was invented, I’ve always loved working with storage systems that offer instant volume copies for my development and testing needs. Today, I’m excited to share that AWS is bringing similar capabilities to Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) with the launch of Amazon […]

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AWS Transfer Family SFTP connectors now support VPC-based connectivity

Many organizations rely on the Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) as the industry standard for exchanging critical business data. Traditionally, securely connecting to private SFTP servers required custom infrastructure, manual scripting, or exposing endpoints to the public internet. Today, AWS Transfer Family SFTP connectors now support connectivity to remote SFTP servers through Amazon Virtual Private […]

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