Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

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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How Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) Enhances Software Delivery

Developer experience (DX) is in the zeitgeist, and for a good reason. Digital demands are increasing, yet the market faces cautious IT budgeting, workplace burnout, and high resignations. The idea is that quality developer experience can help keep the remaining talent happy and increase productivity. And organizations are considering many strategies for increasing DX, such […]

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env0 Extends Workflow Platform for Provisioning Infrastructure

env0 today announced it has added support for additional infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools and the Microsoft Azure DevOps platform to its workflow automation and management platform. Fresh from raising an additional $35 million in funding, env0 CEO Ohad Maislish said while Terraform remains the most widely used IaC tool, there are now more organizations using alternatives […]

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Cloud Management Issues Are Coming to a Head

A survey of 1,300 technology and data executives found that more than a decade after the initial rise of cloud computing, organizations are still struggling to manage these environments. Conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of NetApp, the survey found 98% of respondents reported their business has been impacted by everything from the increasing complexity […]

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The Power of Observability: Performance and Reliability

Observability has become an essential aspect of modern IT, and its importance is only expected to increase in the years to come. The ability to monitor and understand the behavior of systems in real-time provides organizations with a wealth of information that can help them improve the performance, reliability, and overall health of their networks […]

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Right Tool for the Job: Alerting Edition

In high-tech, we have a terrible predilection for finding a good tool and abusing it until we hate it. I’ve written several “Use the right tool for the job” articles and posts over the years, most notably an examination of trying to make one programming language (or another) into an all-purpose solution. We’re thankfully past […]

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Enfabrica Makes Cloud Networking Performance Advances

Enfabrica Corp. today emerged from stealth at the MemCon conference to launch a class of processors for networking in cloud computing environments that are optimized for moving data between CPUs, graphical processor units (GPUs), accelerators and memory. Enfabrica CEO Rochan Sankar said the Accelerated Compute Fabric (ACF) enables scalable, streaming, multi-terabit-per-second movement of data in […]

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Salesforce Spring 2023 Release: Out With the Old, A Lot of the New

Salesforce is the connector and enabler of so many critical business functions. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t come with its headaches. The environment is so complex that it really takes a conscious, focused effort to properly leverage all that Salesforce has to offer, as well as stay up-to-speed on everything that’s new and evolving. […]

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Don’t Make Big Tech’s Mistakes: Build Leaner IT Teams Instead

One of the biggest narratives in the U.S. concerning the current wave of tech layoffs is the fact that ‘traditional’ sectors have a prime opportunity to snap up new tech teams and IT talent. This has always been a significant challenge for sectors such as banks, insurance and manufacturing that compete with big tech for […]

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How to Supercharge Your Engineering Teams

With the economy still bleak, data and engineering teams that were already struggling to keep pace with business needs are now facing a potential hiring freeze or worse in 2023. That’s why there’s never been a more important time to maximize the productivity and impact of your teams, but the question is how to identify […]

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