Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

DevOps Unbound EP 19 – How AI and ML are being used in DevOps Today – TechStrong TV

Alan Shimel: Hey, everyone. I’m Alan Shimel, CEO of MediaOps, devops.com, Container Journal, Security Boulevard, and you’re watching DevOps Unbound. DevOps Unbound is sponsored by our friends at Tricentis. So many thanks to them. And DevOps Unbound is a biweekly show where we cover topics of interest to the DevOps audience. I am the host. […]

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Environments-as-a-Service: Free Your Devs

Environments are the bane of a DevOps engineer’s existence and have been since the invention of the server. They can create giant bottlenecks that hamper productivity and suck the life and motivation out of developers. But they’re also completely necessary. DevOps teams spend a ton of time building and maintaining their development environments. They are […]

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5 Mean-Time Reliability Metrics To Follow

Most folks working in DevOps or SRE roles are familiar with metrics like mean-time-to-recovery (MTTR). Keeping track of the average time a team takes to respond to incidents is crucial to identifying bottlenecks in the support process. It’s also something executives like to show higher-ups when sharing a snapshot of overall platform performance. However, focusing […]

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Applying Automation to DevOps

In the book, “Life and the Art of Engineering,” author Haresh Sippy said, “Automation is cost-cutting by tightening the corners, not cutting them.” Today, businesses and organizations are constantly on the lookout for ways to improve productivity while reducing inefficiencies across their operations. Automation has emerged as the natural answer as it addresses these issues while […]

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Turning Off DevSecOps Noise for Functional Fidelity

Analyzing the DevOps and DevSecOps software marketplace demonstrates the high demand for tools and platforms that reduce false positives. As businesses and organizations adopt a rigorous, disciplined software development life cycle and ascribe to strict compliance frameworks, they quickly realize that automated tools can generate a substantial amount of noise, in the form of false […]

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More Than Half of DevOps Pros Have Backdoor Access to IT Infrastructure

A survey of 600 DevOps professionals conducted by strongDM, a platform for managing access to IT infrastructure, found nearly two-thirds (64%) had productivity impacted on a daily or weekly basis because of access issues. It’s not surprising that, as a result, DevOps teams created a number of workarounds to gain access, even though those methods […]

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Why Your DevSecOps Initiative Will Fail

When you’ve been in and around the security industry for long enough, you get used to the industry hype machine turning a cool innovation into, uh, meh. This hype cycle starts at the RSA conference each year, and folks like me look for new hot stuff on the show floor. For perhaps only the second […]

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Survey Shows Increased Reliance on DORA Metrics

A new survey found just under a quarter (23%) of respondents are now tracking all four of the DevOps metrics defined by the DevOps Research and Assessment Team (DORA), with another 17% now tracking three. The State of Developer Experience survey polled 129 IT professionals that play a role in software development and was conducted by […]

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AWS Week in Review – July 4, 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! Summer has arrived in Finland, and these last few days have been hotter than in the Canary Islands! Today in the US it is Independence Day. I hope that if […]

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DevOps Unbound EP 21 Leading a DevOps Transformation – Lessons Learned – TechStrong TV

[Music plays] Alan: Hey everyone. Welcome to another edition of Devops Unbound. Devops Unbound is a biweekly video series featuring relevant topics in devops. We go wherever we think develops is going and what we need to shine a light on. Devops Unbound is sponsored by our good friends at Tricentis and we thank […] […]

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