Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

JFrog, Vdoo Securing SecOps

Earlier this summer, JFrog acquired Vdoo to deliver end-to-end continuous security from development to device—is this what DevSecOps looks like? JFrog CEO Shlomi Ben Hami and Natenel Davidi, CEO of Vdoo, speak with Alan Shimel about what the acquisition means and how this will change the way organizations approach DevSecOps. The video is below, followed […]

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Redefining Continuous Security for DevSecOps

In the mobile app development world, security often takes a backseat to developing features and delivering the app. In fact, the 2021 Verizon Mobile Security Index found that 45% of organizations sacrificed mobile security in order to “get the job done.” It really shouldn’t come as a surprise. Certainly, it seems counterintuitive that mobile app […]

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The State of DevOps Is Just Fine

There is a growing amount of hand-wringing about the state of DevOps; that adoption is not progressing apace, or that the full benefits of the methodology are not being realized by the majority of adherents. That we can and must do more and do it better, etc. That is just stupid. Or, my first reaction: […]

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Introducing Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller

I am pleased to announce the availability today of Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller, a Amazon Route 53 set of capabilities that continuously monitors an application’s ability to recover from failures and controls application recovery across multiple AWS Availability Zones, AWS Regions, and on premises environments to help you to build applications that must […]

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Shoreline Platform Automates Repetitive IT Tasks

Shoreline emerged from stealth today to make available a namesake incident automation platform that eliminates the need to manually perform the same repetitive tasks. Anurag Gupta, Shoreline CEO, said the platform is based on domain-specific language, dubbed Op, that provides a simple pipe delimited syntax to integrate real-time resources and metrics in a way that […]

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Shopify Gives Devs More Creative Freedom

Shopify’s Unite 2021 conference was held on June 29, 2021, and the e-commerce platform had some big, developer-centric news to share. Alan Shimel spoke with Shopify’s Glen Coates about the developer-first business model that is giving developers the most opportunity to build their businesses with a new 0% revenue share model, and how developers can […]

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From One-Click Deployment to One-Click Feedback

What makes a group of individual contributors a team? You can look at today’s product development teams as an ensemble of craftspeople from different disciplines. Code builders, design artists, storytellers, and an orchestrator. Similar to an orchestra, their output is based on the ability of each and every one of them to work together in […]

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DevOps Database Platforms Slash DX Bottlenecks

An enterprise with many databases and various data requirements for DevOps continuous delivery presents a problem. For example, test data provisioning is a challenge today, particularly in pre-release testing of database updates. Standard practices involve shared database environments that need to be maintained from one test to the next, slowing test cycles and generally not […]

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Are You Wasting Money in the Cloud?

I’m not the first person to point out the issues with Andreessen Horowitz’s blog post outlining why Dropbox is repatriating from the public cloud to data centers and saving an enormous amount of money. But while others have brought up valid points about how Dropbox is not representative of most companies and that the value […]

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Stop Hiding the Cloud From Your Developers

If you say a person or organization “goes to great lengths” to achieve something, it means they try very hard and perhaps do extreme things to accomplish their goal. One example I’ve seen is that of more traditional companies “going to great lengths” to “hide” the cloud from their pool of potential technical consumers doing […]

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