Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Sonatype Report Shows Spike in Supply Chain Attacks

Sonatype today released a report that finds there has been a 650% year-over-year increase in supply chain attacks aimed at upstream public repositories. Cybercriminals hope to compromise these repositories by injecting malware into software components that many organizations might be using, according to the report. The seventh annual State of the Software Supply Chain Report […]

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DevOps Dozen² Awards 2021 Nominations Now Open

The DevOps Dozen² Awards are back and open for nominations. This past year has been quite a journey and we are very proud of the DevOps community in their ability to pivot, innovate, adapt and think ahead in these challenging times. Some outstanding leaders and vendors have worked nonstop to reach their goals and achieve […]

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Solving the DevOps Accountability Problem

DevOps accountability is the idea that both the development and operations teams have equal responsibility for success. But putting this approach into practice has been a thorn in the side of DevOps teams for the past decade, largely due to outdated organizational structures that place responsibilities on a single employee or team. These outmoded structures […]

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Meet the New(ish) Pipeline

My company keeps a sample project running pretty much all of the time. Our current project (multi-target web/Android app using Java and Spring built with Gradle and Ant that we’ll call “Finder” here) is getting a bit long in the tooth, so we have been casting about for a new one over the last several […]

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New Relic Survey Shows Greater Appreciation for Observability

A global survey of 1,300 software engineers, developers, IT leaders and executives found half of respondents (50%) are in the process of implementing an observability platform. Another 23% of respondents said that they cannot gain end-to-end observability at all, while 26% said they believe they have mature observability practices in place. The survey, published today, […]

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MediaOps, Boca Code Award ‘Engineer the Change’ Scholarship

I am really proud to announce that, in partnership with Boca Code, MediaOps has awarded a scholarship for the Fall 2021 term to the Software Engineering Career Course, a 10-week rigorous and fast-paced coding boot camp from Boca Code. Alina Maliuk, a first-generation immigrant from Ukraine, is the recipient. The Engineer the Change scholarship was […]

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Choosing the Right Metrics for DevOps Adoption

DevOps adoption has skyrocketed in recent years. Its impact on traditional development platforms has long been well-documented, but in more recent years it has started to influence low-code platforms, too. In its recent survey on the state of Salesforce DevOps, Gearset found that 69% of teams are already using source control and another 20% plan […]

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New – Amazon EC2 VT1 Instances for Live Multi-stream Video Transcoding

Global demand for video content has been rapidly increasing and now has the major audiences of Internet and mobile network traffic. Over-the-top streaming services such as Twitch continue to see an explosion of content creators who are seeking live delivery with great image quality, while live event broadcasters are increasingly looking to embrace agile cloud […]

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JFrog Acquires Upswift to Push DevOps to the Edge

JFrog today revealed it has acquired Upswift as part of an effort to extend its DevOps reach to edge computing platforms. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Upswift has created agent software that is deployed as a binary file on an edge computing platform that makes it possible to continuously deliver software across a […]

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4 Benefits of Integrating a Language With a Database

One of the hallmarks of a truly modern programming language is the coupling of a language—for creating applications, devising algorithms and solving business problems—with an underlying database. When there is practically no separation between a database and its programming language, developers immensely increase their productivity, maximize the effectiveness of the code they write and provide […]

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