Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

The Tragedy of the Data Commons: Balancing Innovation With Risk

Clean drinking water and fisheries are classic examples of the “tragedy of the commons,” the problem in economics and ecology where an individual is incentivized to consume as much of a shared resource as possible at the expense of the larger society. With fisheries, for example, a logical fisherman would like to make as many […]

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Avoiding the Pain of a ‘Resume-Driven Architecture’

Successful new technologies follow a predictable arc, from initial innovation to technical gold rush and, ultimately, to mass market adoption. As a consequence, they achieve strong standardization and productization. Being highly attuned to where a specific field lies on the maturity arc is how you yield the greatest benefits to a business. But what happens […]

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Leading DevOps Transformations With AI

In my recent article Revolutionizing the Nine Pillars of DevOps with AI-Engineered Tools, I explained that AI-engineered tools can help with automating repetitive tasks, improving decision-making with predictive insights and facilitating proactive issue resolution. AI can drive a higher level of quality, security and performance in the software life cycle. Leadership, the first of the […]

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Cycode Leverages eBPF to Secure CI/CD Pipelines

Cycode today added a Cimon extension to its application security platform that uses extended Berkeley Packet Filtering (eBPF) to thwart cyberattacks against continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. Alex Ilgayev, head of security research for Cycode, said Cimon uses eBPF to inspect network connections, running processes and file modifications within a pipeline to learn standard behaviors. […]

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Revolutionizing DevOps With Low-Code/No-Code Platforms

The DevOps industry is growing at an incredible pace, with its worth exceeding $8 billion in 2022. Analysts predict that the market will experience a five-fold increase and reach almost $40 billion by the end of the decade. But with this growth, there is a significant issue within the DevOps chain that continues to escalate: […]

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A Life of Labor

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Snyk to Add ASPM Platform via Enso Security Acquisition

Snyk this week announced it plans to acquire Enso Security, a provider of an application security posture management (ASPM) solution that tracks events and analyzes metadata collected from DevOps and security tools. At the same time, Snyk revealed it has added a DeepCode AI Fix tool that creates validated fixes for code written by either […]

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The API Life Cycle Mixer’s Manual: What Goes Into a Single Source of Truth?

In bartending, the mixer’s manual is a trusted source of information. These books can contain hundreds of recipes for classic cocktails, some of which might be 100 years old, while others might be for drinks that only recently arrived on the scene. Mixer’s manuals also can be great sources of inspiration for new, yet-to-be-tested recipes […]

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Copilots For Everyone: Microsoft Brings Copilots to the Masses

Microsoft has been doing a lot to extend the coding ‘copilot’ concept into new areas. And at its Build 2023 conference, Microsoft leadership unveiled new capabilities in Azure AI Studio that will empower individual developers to create copilots of their own. This news is exciting, as it will enable engineers to craft copilots that are […]

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Technical Debt? No Sweat!

As a product manager, I dread the moment a developer says, “Wait a minute; I need to refactor …” (I wish it was just a minute). Something that should take two days starts taking three days and then a week. Over an application’s lifetime, the app starts accumulating technical debt. At that point, innovations become […]

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