Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Database Virtualization – Driving the Next Big Transformation

Data is both the most important asset and the biggest challenge for most corporations. It impacts every aspect of the business from financial considerations to AI/ML training. Data is used by development and DevOps teams, engineering teams, quality assurance, business intelligence teams and database administrators. Despite its central role in operations, traditional forms of database […]

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The Benefits of a Streaming Database

Streaming databases offer an innovative approach to data processing that combines the familiarity of traditional models with a powerful data transformation engine. This hybrid system provides DevOps and DataOps teams with extremely fast results for complex SQL queries, aggregations and transformations that are impossible or take hours to process in the traditional batch computation model. […]

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Managing Engineering Teams During Economic Downturns

The tech industry has faced strong economic headwinds over the past year or so. We’ve seen thousands of layoffs at public tech companies, along with weak stock performances and a decline in venture capital funding. Although some analysts see light at the end of the tunnel, the current slump doesn’t seem like it’s quite over […]

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Democratization in Action

The post Democratization in Action appeared first on DevOps.com. Source: DevOps.com

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npm is Scam-Spam Cesspool ¦ Google in Microsoft Antitrust Thrust

In this week’s #TheLongView: The npm registry suffers spam infestation, and Microsoft makes Google sad. The post npm is Scam-Spam Cesspool ¦ Google in Microsoft Antitrust Thrust appeared first on DevOps.com. Source: DevOps.com

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5 Key Performance Metrics to Track in 2023

It’s never a bad time to adopt healthy new habits for the mind and body, and for developers, it’s always a good time to consider new best practices at work. As 2023 rolls on, I’ve been thinking about some key performance metrics that help to ensure critical applications and websites perform optimally throughout the year—especially […]

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Debunking Myths About Reliability

“Our service should always be up.” Some myths just won’t die. Engineering for reliability is well understood by engineering leaders, less so by bosses demanding unreasonable uptime with minimal resources and immense feature pressure. Business leaders tend to waffle between ignoring reliability with a hand wave and freaking out after an outage. How can they […]

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New Relic Bets on AI to Advance Observability

New Relic is preparing to extend the capabilities of its observability platform by making use of both additional machine learning algorithms and the ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform. Peter Pezaris, senior vice president for strategy and experience at New Relic, said during an interview on an episode of TechStrong TV that a prototype of […]

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Vega Cloud Commits to Reducing Cloud Costs

Vega Cloud today made a commitment to save customers at least 10% on their cloud infrastructure spending or it won’t charge for its software. Vega Cloud’s software automates cloud infrastructure management. The Vega Cloud platform enables IT teams to connect, automate, manage and optimize new and existing networks, applications and other multi-cloud IT environments from […]

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The Business Case for DevOps Culture

Culture is nebulous. It encompasses all the behaviors and attitudes of an organization, from overarching business values down to the individual actions of an employee. Because culture is transient, it’s unique to every business, feels difficult to change and is even harder to measure. This can make it frustrating to see DevOps research continuously name […]

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