Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Tips For Securing CI/CD Pipelines

Most development teams want to increase the pace of their software delivery. As such, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) has grown in importance, helping push code from build to production as seamlessly as possible. CI/CD pipelines often loop in many elements and may comprise a diverse stack of tools, automations and various languages. But because […]

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Good Things Happen When DevSecOps and Cloud Collide

The marriage of cloud and software development is arguably the heart and soul of digital transformation. Providing pathways to greater efficiencies, lower costs and greater enterprise performance, the duo is poised to fundamentally transform industries as we know them. The compounding complexities of hybrid cloud operations and software supply chains, however, have led to a […]

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Raise Those (Feature) Flags

I’ve written about feature flags before, but I think it’s time for a solid bit of advice: “If you are not yet using feature flags for DevOps, it is past time to reconsider.” I say this because feature flags have been a slow-growth item, with a few spikes here and there in usage, but mostly […]

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DevOps Flow: Accelerating Velocity With Software Factory Best Practices

In the cloud era, senior executives are investing in key capabilities like DevOps with the expectation this will accelerate innovation and bring new digital products to market faster. To deliver on these goals, enterprise organizations seek to deploy high-quality code faster and more frequently, but they face a organizational, process and technology complexity that can […]

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Survey: More Cybersecurity Pros Embedded in DevOps Teams

A survey of 2,500 C-level executives published today by Palo Alto Networks found 81% of organizations have embedded cybersecurity professionals within their DevOps teams. Despite the presence of those cybersecurity professionals, however, the survey also suggested there is much work to do in terms of optimizing DevSecOps workflows. A full 90% of organizations cannot detect, […]

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The Impact of Developer Happiness on Productivity

Even in an era of unprecedented tech layoffs, most companies are still eager to find and retain top software developer talent. What’s more, many firms are discovering that they lack direct insight into their development teams’ needs and priorities. As a result, some of them are struggling to keep their developers happy and thus productive. […]

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AWS Delivers on Latest Graviton3 Price/Performance Promise

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded the number of virtual machines based on the latest generation of its Graviton processors to include instances that support DDR-5 memory. The latest Amazon EC2 instance types, dubbed M7g and R7g, that are now generally available are based on the AWS Graviton3 processors developed using an architecture created by […]

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Five Tips for Moving IT Ops to DevOps

The era of siloed development and operations functions is rapidly coming to an end. The concept of DevOps has already closed the gap between IT and developers, but as I speak with customers around the globe, one theme continues to arise. Many systems administrators are ill-equipped to handle the shift from IT Ops to DevOps […]

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Before ChatGPT, AIOps Powered Enterprises for Years

Led by OpenAI and its ChatGPT software, a new era of consumer use cases for artificial intelligence is here. These exciting new tools have made AI more accessible to more users than ever before. No longer is this technology the exclusive domain of wealthy corporations. However, while the world is now focused on the potential […]

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Report Identifies Top 10 Open Source Software Risks

Endor Labs, a provider of a platform for managing open source software, published a report that classifies the top 10 open source software risks of 2023. The company published the list as part of an effort to better educate application development teams about issues that can lead to software supply chain compromises. That list includes: […]

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