Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Is Your Infrastructure Ready for Edge Computing?

Like many IT innovations, edge computing began with engineers as a natural extension of technology to address a growing need. The concept isn’t new; distributed computing has been around for decades. But, at the same time standards began to converge and edge hardware started making the rounds at trade shows, the hype machine saw an […]

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No Excuses: Lock Down RDP

We’ve been at the “everyone working remote” thing for months now, and still there are horror stories of people being attacked via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Early on, it was understandable if not acceptable—but we’re not early on any more. During the rush of doing whatever it took to help people work from home, exposed […]

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Career Development in Trying Times

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Adventures in Scaling in Changing Times

I don’t know about you, but the last two months have been kind of crazy for me due to the spread of COVID-19. In the middle of a trans-Nordics trip in early March that took me to Denmark, Finland, and Sweden in the course of a week, Amazon asked me and my coworkers to work […]

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Chef Adds Support for Arm Graviton 2 Processors on AWS Cloud

Chef announced this week that its offerings for managing and testing infrastructure as code now support Graviton 2 processors from Arm on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. AWS this week announced the availability of an M6g instance of processors on its public cloud. Based on a 64-bit Arm Neoverse N1 architecture, the M6g processors […]

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HashiCorp Extends Consul Service Mesh Reach

HashiCorp today made available an update to its Consul service mesh that makes it easier to integrate legacy and modern applications. Service meshes have emerged as a framework for documenting and controlling how application services interact with one another. Most of the adoption of service meshes thus far has involved applications built using microservices. With […]

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Cisco Aligns With Google to Meld DevOps and NetOps

The extension of a partnership between Cisco Systems and Google to drive tighter integration between their respective software-defined wide area network (SD-WANs) offerings and cloud platforms promises to accelerate the convergence of NetOps and DevOps. John Apostolopoulos, vice president and CTO for Intent-Based Networking Group at Cisco, said in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic […]

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Render Now Serving More Than One Billion Web Requests Monthly; Expands Into Europe With Easiest Cloud for Hosting Any App or Website

SAN FRANCISCO, May 13, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Render, the easiest cloud provider for developers and startups, today announced that it served more than one billion HTTP requests in April which is more than two times the number of requests in March. Today Render also announced that it has launched early access to its first hosting region in […]

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LogicMonitor Releases IT Downtime Detection and Mitigation Study

Although 99.999% availability may be IT’s ambition, it’s far from reality. In March 2019, Google’s Gmail experienced a 4.5-hour global outage. In the same month, Facebook suffered a 14-hour outage, its most massive outage to date, crippling app-accessibility worldwide. Downtime and low availability will likely occur to all systems eventually, especially when introducing code changes. […]

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DRY Comes to COBOL in IBM Z Development

Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) is a fundamental tenet of modern computer programming. Just about every CS student is taught that duplicating code in an application is an accident waiting to happen. The hazard is that you might alter a piece of code in one place, only to leave another identical instance of that code unchanged. […]

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