Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

OpenSSL Fiasco: What can DevOps Learn? | Elon Fires ‘50%’ of Twitter

In this week’s The Long View: The OpenSSL project has egg on its face, and half of Twitter’s staff are for the chop tomorrow. The post OpenSSL Fiasco: What can DevOps Learn? | Elon Fires ‘50%’ of Twitter appeared first on DevOps.com. Source: DevOps.com

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Momento Launches Elastic Cloud Caching Service

Momento this week emerged from stealth to launch an elastic Serverless Cache platform that promises to improve the performance of applications running on databases deployed in the cloud while simultaneously reducing costs. Fresh from raising $15 million in seed funding, Momento CEO and co-founder Khawaja Shams said Serverless Cache gives IT teams access to a […]

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Gitpod Looks to Drive Application Development Into the Cloud

Gitpod today revealed it will add an application programming interface (API) to make cloud development environments (CDEs) more extensible. Gitpod also said Johannes Landgraf assumed the role of single CEO for Gitpod, as the previous co-CEO, Sven Efftinge, becomes the company’s first technical fellow. Fresh from raising an additional $25 million in funding, Gitpod’s Landgraf […]

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Solving the Culture Conundrum in Software Engineering

The one crucial ingredient underpinning our transition to a digital-first economy, more than any other, is software. That’s why software engineering has become one of the world’s most in-demand professions. In the UK alone, the median salary for the role has increased 13% year-over-year as businesses look to stay ahead of the competition and attract […]

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For Engineers, Meetings Waste Time and Money

Meetings can be the lifeblood of any organization, allowing coworkers to check in with one another, exchange ideas and solve problems. But, for engineers moving up the career ladder, the mounting number of meetings expected of engineering managers can end up being a distraction that does more harm than good. Research from Clockwise recently examined […]

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Pulumi Adds Deployment Capability to IaC Platform

At the Pulumi Cloud Engineering Days event, Pulumi announced today it has added a code deployment capability to its Pulumi Cloud platform for managing infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy said Pulumi Deployments will make it possible for DevOps teams to provision infrastructure and deploy applications via a single Git commit that can be invoked […]

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Octopus Deploy Tightens Integration With GitHub Actions

Octopus Deploy announced today it has tightened the integration between its automated deployment platform and GitHub Actions continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform. Harsh Sabikhi, senior vice president of revenue for Octopus Deploy, said GitHub Actions for Octopus Deploy v2 adds support for a push-build-information-action capability GitHub added to its platform that enables DevOps teams to […]

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Opsera Brings DevOps Intelligence to GitHub Actions

Opsera today announced it has extended its platform for collecting DevOps intelligence to include support for the GitHub Actions continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Opsera CTO Kumar Chivukula said as GitHub Actions is adopted more widely, there is a growing need to provide greater visibility into Git-based workflows in real-time. A GitHub Actions Insights module […]

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Break Open the Black Box of Software Development

If you asked an airline executive what their biggest expense was just a few decades ago, they would’ve easily answered, “Jet fuel.” These days, you’d be hard-pressed to find an executive in any industry that wouldn’t answer with, “Software.” But here’s the difference: With jet fuel, that executive would have told you that they can […]

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Know What You Want and Need

Over the years, what we purchase from vendors has changed significantly. It used to be that IT would define a need, go out and find a bit of software to solve it, install and configure the software and, in most cases, spend the majority of time on the project getting it to work correctly in […]

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