Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Prioritizing Product Security With DevSecOps

Building software with strong security can no longer be an afterthought for organizations. The need for a reliable cybersecurity posture has proven vital amid the constant attacks we’re seeing across industries, all over the world. Product-specific security is top of mind for most companies, and a successful product security practice requires integrating with the ethos […]

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CloudBees Survey Sees VSM Driving Digital Transformation

A global survey of 600 senior executives conducted by CloudBees suggested a high correlation between investments made in value stream management (VSM) and digital business transformation success. The survey found 90% of respondents agreed that organizations that committed to VSM are likely to be further ahead in terms of achieving their digital business transformation goals, […]

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Shift Left Testing in Microservices Environments

By now, it’s common knowledge that the later a bug is detected in the software development life cycle (SDLC), the longer it takes and the more expensive it is to fix that bug. In 2017, the Ponemon Institute found that it cost around $80 on average to fix a defect detected early in the SDLC […]

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Index Tracks Impressive Growth of API-First Startups

APIs are the building blocks of modern software, and their use continues to grow around the globe. A full 89% of investment into APIs will increase or stay the same over the next 12 months, Postman’s 2022 State of the API report found. And the evolving API-first approach is ushering in many innovations and startups […]

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Massive Number of Transitive Dependencies Traced to Open Source Code

An analysis of nearly 2,000 software packages published by Endor Labs found 95% of all application vulnerabilities can be traced back to a transitive dependency created when a developer used an open source component. The study, conducted by the Station 9 research arm of Endor Labs, a provider of a platform for identifying software dependencies, […]

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5 Tips to Consider When Introducing Infrastructure Automation

Although we discuss infrastructure automation often, the fact is that a lot of manual processes still exist throughout DevOps. Whether it’s rewriting scripts to spin up new servers, updating cloud-native policies or configuring computing environments, manual toil is an all-too-common reality. To make matters worse, engineers commonly create lengthy scripts that work in isolation but are […]

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Conditional Courtesy

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Codenotary Extends Dynamic SBOM Reach to Serverless Computing Platforms

Codenotary has extended the reach of its platform for automatically generating software bills of materials (SBOMs) to serverless computing platforms running software constructed using functions. Codenotary CTO Dennis Zimmer said because serverless apps are dynamically created, it’s not possible to generate SBOMs using traditional approaches. The TrueSBOM platform makes it possible to create an SBOM […]

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Survey Surfaces Agile Development Challenges

A survey of 3,220 software development professionals published this week found that among the 80% of respondents that embraced Agile practices for building software, just under half are tracking on-time delivery (47%) and business objectives achieved (44%). The survey, conducted by Regina Corso Consulting on behalf of Digital.ai, a provider of a value stream management […]

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Migration to AWS Cloud: Do’s and Don’ts

What if one day, you were told to migrate to AWS/GCP/Azure/any other cloud provider? It would likely introduce some stress, to understate the case, right? I’ve seen quite a few migrations in my career and, in this article, I would like to share some thoughts to help DevOps engineers, architects, managers or anyone else who […]

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