Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS RTB Fabric, AWS Customer Carbon Footprint Tool, AWS Secret-West Region, and more (October 27, 2025)

This week started with challenges for many using services in the the North Virginia (us-east-1) Region. On Monday, we experienced a service disruption affecting DynamoDB and several other services due to a DNS configuration problem. The issue has been fully resolved, and you can read the full details in our official summary. As someone who […]

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A Modern Approach to Multi-Signal Optimization 

How multi-signal optimization and metric classification help DevOps and turn telemetry chaos into actionable intelligence. Source: DevOps.com

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Patch Management is Essential for Securing DevOps

Zero-day exploits don’t wait for anyone and are one of the main reasons why the cybersecurity market will be worth a whopping $256 billion worldwide. In the current threat landscape, attackers weaponize vulnerabilities within hours of disclosure, and that puts DevOps teams in a precarious position.   The ability to patch quickly and confidently can mean […]

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How Observability Improves User Experience and Digital Performance 

Discover how observability transforms user experience by improving performance, reliability, and customer satisfaction. Learn how leading companies like Airbnb, Spotify, and Slack use observability tools such as Grafana and Clepher to boost uptime, reduce MTTR by 85%, and drive higher retention and conversion rates. Source: DevOps.com

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Claude Introduces Agent Skills for Custom AI Workflows

Anthropic introduces Agent Skills for Claude — a new system that packages instructions, scripts, and resources into reusable folders across Claude’s web app, API, and Claude Code. Skills make AI assistants composable, portable, and powerful for DevOps, automation, and agentic development workflows. Source: DevOps.com

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BMC Brings OpenTelemetry to Mainframes Running z/OS

BMC Software has added an ability to collect telemetry data from mainframes using open source OpenTelemetry software that can then be more easily shared with multiple observability tools and platforms such as Elastic, Splunk, Grafana, and Datadog. Company CTO Ram Chakravarti said the BMC AMI Ops platform now has an OpenTelemetry connector for mainframes running […]

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From Cloud to Cognitive Infrastructure: How AI is Redefining the Next Frontier of SRE 

As organizations embrace artificial intelligence (AI) workloads alongside traditional cloud systems, site reliability engineering (SRE) must evolve to manage an entirely new class of infrastructure — intelligent, hybrid and graphics processing unit (GPU)-driven.  Infrastructure has transformed dramatically over the past two decades. We began with physical servers in local data centers, then virtualization improved efficiency […]

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Rewriting the Rules of Software Quality: Why Agentic QA is the Future CIOs Must Champion 

Discover how Agentic QA is transforming enterprise software testing with autonomous AI systems that embed quality into every stage of development. Source: DevOps.com

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Don’t Reinvent the Wheel: A Developer’s Guide to AI Reusability 

Every great innovation brings on new challenges, and AI is no exception. As technology leaders instruct their workforces to default to using AI in their day-to-day tasks and as AI workflows become increasingly critical to software engineering practices, a familiar challenge persists: reusability.  There are libraries, packages and shared components available for reuse with traditional […]

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The New Metrics of DevOps: Speed, Trust and Transparency

At swampUP 2025, Alan sits down with Aman Sardana and Vijay Kumar Soni to talk through one of the defining challenges of modern software delivery—how DevOps practices must evolve to accommodate the growing influence of artificial intelligence across the software development lifecycle. They explore the intersection of automation, security and scalability as organizations rethink their […]

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