Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Where Has All the Testing Gone?

Testing has long been a problem child of IT in general, AppDev in particular, and now it is DevOps’ problem. There are things that DevOps can do to improve the chances of tests actually occurring for your application(s). Interestingly, there are some that think we no longer need testing; the argument is that because new […]

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Multi-Cloud Computing is a Major IT Headache

A CloudBolt Software survey of 500 senior IT, DevOps, security and finance leaders found 79% are struggling under the weight of managing multiple cloud computing environments. The survey from CloudBolt Software, a provider of a cloud management platform, found specifically that more than three-quarters of respondents (78%) said they have too many cloud tools throughout […]

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Shifting Engineering Priorities for 2022

Nearly every aspect of the software development process is accelerating, from the increasing speed of programming languages to the expectation of faster delivery. This has resulted in the misconception that speed and efficiency should be a DevOps team’s or engineer’s top priority. Though agile transformations have been a central strategy for most organizations in recent […]

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Boosting DevOps Productivity Requires Visibility, Automation

Engineering teams continue to struggle with roadblocks and bottlenecks during the development process, according to Software’s recent 2021 Code Time Report. The study, which is based on feedback from more than 250,000 developers using the Code Time plugin, found the median code time per developer is 52 minutes per day, or four hours and 21 minutes of […]

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How to Build an Effective API Security Strategy

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) enable organizations to grow their businesses and drive innovation. APIs allow applications to easily transfer data to external third-party developers, business partners and internal departments. Since APIs have access to valuable and sensitive data, they have increasingly become a target for cyberattacks. At the API Security Summit, taking place on March […]

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What to Expect When Transitioning to DevSecOps

How do you ensure your DevOps pipeline is secure? Does DevSecOps protect you against serious breaches or is it just a way to allay the concerns of stakeholders about security in DevOps? A data breach can cost an average of $3.92 million USD, as per IBM’s study Cost of a Data Breach. In this report, […]

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Configuration Management

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Tricentis Expands Scope of Cloud-Based Testing Tools

Tricentis this week extended a suite of cloud-based testing tools that promise to make it simpler to both develop cloud-native and mobile applications and migrate existing applications to the cloud. New capabilities added to the portfolio include integrations for cloud-based planning tools and a wider range of testing capabilities for mobile applications. DevOps teams can […]

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How SREs Benefit From Feature Flags

When you think of who uses feature flags, your mind most likely goes to software developers. In general, feature flags are closely associated with software engineering. But site reliability engineers (SREs), too, can benefit. SREs may not be the ones to create feature flags, but they should work closely with developers to ensure that the […]

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SQL Server MDF to NDF Distribution

Do you have massive MDF files on your database? Have you noticed that your SQL Server disk stall metrics for these data files are higher than the storage latency metrics exhibited on the underlying operating system? It could be that your SQL Server data files are being hammered too hard and you don’t have enough […]

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