Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

The Future of Cloud Strategy: Multi-Cloud

As Gartner’s Milind Govekar recently said, “There is no business strategy without a cloud strategy.” But in 2021, some of the world’s biggest brands suffered disruptions in their services due to outages from their cloud service providers, including Google, Slack, Venmo, Disney+, Facebook/Meta, Tinder, iRobot, The Washington Post and Sony. While the outages do not negate the […]

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Report Finds Software Engineering Productivity Gains

An analysis of the time 23,000 software engineers spent working in 2021 that was published this week by Jellyfish, a provider of an engineering management platform (EMP), finds cycle times on average were down to 12.6 days, representing a 12.3% decline over 2020. The report, however, also finds commits were down 4% year-over-year, while the […]

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Wi-Fi 7 Chips Ahoy | Google ‘Gone Downhill Fast’ | Real-World ‘Severance’

In this week’s The Long View: The first silicon for Wi-Fi 7, Google’s search quality is failing, and what “Severance” tells us about The Great Resignation. The post Wi-Fi 7 Chips Ahoy | Google ‘Gone Downhill Fast’ | Real-World ‘Severance’ appeared first on DevOps.com. Source: DevOps.com

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Dreams and Desires

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The Pros and Cons of Embedded SREs

To embed or not to embed: That is the question. At least, that’s one of the questions that companies have to answer as they decide how to implement site reliability engineering. They can either embed SREs into existing teams, or they can build a new, separate team. Both approaches have their pros and cons. The […]

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What’s the Difference Between SLI, SLA and SLO?

If you’re just getting into site reliability engineering (SRE) or platform engineering, you’ve probably come across a bunch of new terminologies, like SLI, SLA and SLO. These benchmarks are commonly referenced in the day-to-day life of an SRE but may seem foreign to outsiders. So, what are the differences between these abbreviations? Well, one of […]

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Checkmarx Finds Malicious Open Source PyPi Repository

Checkmarx, a provider of a platform for testing application security, this week disclosed it has discovered a malicious instance of a PyPi repository for Python code that has been downloaded more than 70,000 times. Tzachi Zorenshtain, head of supply chain security, said this discovery represents another instance where cybercriminals have made available a malicious copy […]

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Shift Left is Only Part of Secure Software Delivery

We’re living in the age of accelerated consumption and delivery. You can get a seemingly infinite selection of products delivered to your door within two days, for free, from thousands of miles away. You can access an endless variety of services online within mere seconds: Movies, music, games, education and even health care. These modern […]

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The Problem With Security

As an IT professional with decades of experience at every level of technology and organizations—from cell phone prototyping to banking enterprise architecture, from entry-level to CTO—I can state definitively that I have spent an inordinate amount of time dwelling on and dealing with security. And I know I’m not alone. This is a common theme. […]

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Encore Platform for Running Distributed Apps in the Cloud Arrives

Encore has made generally available a namesake backend development engine for rapidly building scalable distributed IT environments across multiple cloud platforms. Fresh off raising $3 million in seed funding, Encore CEO André Eriksson said the Encore platform analyzes source code to eliminate the need to manually configure, connect and set up portable cloud computing environments. […]

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