Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

DevOps Database Platforms Slash DX Bottlenecks

An enterprise with many databases and various data requirements for DevOps continuous delivery presents a problem. For example, test data provisioning is a challenge today, particularly in pre-release testing of database updates. Standard practices involve shared database environments that need to be maintained from one test to the next, slowing test cycles and generally not […]

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Are You Wasting Money in the Cloud?

I’m not the first person to point out the issues with Andreessen Horowitz’s blog post outlining why Dropbox is repatriating from the public cloud to data centers and saving an enormous amount of money. But while others have brought up valid points about how Dropbox is not representative of most companies and that the value […]

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Stop Hiding the Cloud From Your Developers

If you say a person or organization “goes to great lengths” to achieve something, it means they try very hard and perhaps do extreme things to accomplish their goal. One example I’ve seen is that of more traditional companies “going to great lengths” to “hide” the cloud from their pool of potential technical consumers doing […]

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After the Turning Point

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The Move Away from Monolithic Application Development

Shifting from monolithic application development Businesses need agility to deliver better services, meet changing requirements, and seize new opportunities as they arise. At the heart of many efforts are applications based on modern development strategies and techniques. Specifically, many businesses are moving away from monolithic applications of the past that are hard to modify and take […]

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The Uber API Authorization Vulnerability

What Happened In September 2019, a critical bug was discovered on Uber API, which allows merchants, service providers and others to offer ride-sharing services to customers. Uber had exposed a vulnerable application programming interface (API) endpoint that allowed attackers to steal valuable data, including personally identifiable information (PII) records and authentication tokens of riders and drivers. The leaked […]

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How to Revoke JSON Web Tokens (JWTs)

One of the most common questions about JSON Web Tokens (JWTs): Once they’re issued, how can they be revoked? What Are JWTs? JSON Web Tokens are portable, industry-standard identity tokens. They are issued after a login request by a central identity server and used to identify and credential a user and grant access to resources. […]

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Higher Mobile App Stability Begets Higher User Ratings

In the competitive mobile market, application stability is imperative. Downtime leads to poor user experiences, which stunts growth and revenue. Apps that have poor stability suffer the consequences. In fact, new studies show that just a 1% lower stability ranking can lead to nearly a one-star drop in App Store ratings. Bugsnag recently released its […]

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CloudTruth Acquires Tuono to Advance Configuration Management

CloudTruth, a provider of a unified configuration management platform, today revealed it has acquired Tuono, a provider of a cloud secrets management platform, as part of an effort to make it simpler to secure infrastructure provisioned using code. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Greg Arnette, CloudTruth CEO, said misconfigurations are rife across cloud […]

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Programmability is Key to Agile Transformation

Enterprise agility has rapidly become one of the most crucial variables for a business’s long-term resiliency. With the COVID-19 pandemic, never-ending disruptions to the global supply chain and nearly every industry’s typical processes flipped upside down, there has never been a more important time to prioritize agility than now. While the rewards of agility are […]

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