Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

New: Improve Apache Iceberg query performance in Amazon S3 with sort and z-order compaction

You can now use sort and z-order compaction to improve Apache Iceberg query performance in Amazon S3 Tables and general purpose S3 buckets. You typically use Iceberg to manage large-scale analytical datasets in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) with AWS Glue Data Catalog or with S3 Tables. Iceberg tables support use cases such as […]

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AWS Weekly Roundup: re:Inforce re:Cap, Valkey GLIDE 2.0, Avro and Protobuf or MCP Servers on Lambda, and more (June 23, 2025)

Last week’s hallmark event was the security-focused AWS re:Inforce conference. Now a tradition, the blog team wrote a re:Cap post to summarize the announcements and link to some of the top blog posts. To further summarize, several new security innovations were announced, including enhanced IAM Access Analyzer capabilities, MFA enforcement for root users, and threat […]

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Compliance in the Age of AI: Why Strong CI/CD Foundations Matter

A strong CI/CD foundation is key to ensuring you can reap the benefits of  AI and create high-quality user experiences at breakneck speed.   Source: DevOps.com

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AWS Extends MCP Support in Amazon Q Developer to Multiple IDEs

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) with the Visual Studio Code and JetBrains plugins that are provided for Amazon Q Developer, a set of artificial intelligence (AI) agents that automate a range of software development tasks. Source: DevOps.com

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Why AI-based Code Generation Falls Short

The usage of AI in the software development life cycle of any project will facilitate faster workflows, thereby enabling your software developers to focus on creative and complex tasks instead of spending time on mundane tasks.  Source: DevOps.com

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The Top 5 AI Trends for Developers

The emergence of AI offers developers the ability to expand and improve their application of Generative AI. Source: DevOps.com

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Atlassian Adds CLI Option to AI Agent for Building Software

Atlassian has added a command line interface (CLI) option to provide application developers with a familiar construct for invoking Rovo Dev, its artificial intelligence (AI) agent for building software Part of a portfolio of Rovo Software Agents that Atlassian now makes available in beta, Rovo Dev completes and debugs code, creates tests, surfaces insights and […]

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AWS Extends Cloud Security Reach to Include DevSecOps Tools to Scan Code

Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week made Amazon Inspector, a code scanning tool for surfacing vulnerabilities that is designed to be natively integrated with GitHub and GitLab platforms, generally available. Announced at the AWS re:Inforce 2025 conference, Amazon Inspector combines a static application security testing (SAST) tool for analyzing application source-code with a software composition […]

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CloudBees Adds MCP Server to Unify Platform for Integrating DevOps Workflows

CloudBees today began providing early access Model Context Protocol Server to its Unify platform for centrally managing DevOps workflows across multiple types of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms. Source: DevOps.com

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AI, the New Hero of Software Development … or Anti-Hero?

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be a hero or an anti-hero in software development, depending on your implementation approach. According to the 2024 DORA Accelerate State of DevOps Report, AI adoption shows promise with 75% of respondents reporting positive productivity gains, but also reveals unexpected challenges, including a 7.2% reduction in software delivery stability. The key […]

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