Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Could Full-Stack Observability Help Lessen IT’s Burden?

The year 2020 was a landmark year for many reasons, other than the obvious. The IT world saw the first time that cloud service revenues dwarfed spending on data centers. Across the board, budgets have been increasing around cloud adoption. And in this ‘new normal,’ digital experiences are slated to remain just as crucial of […]

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Meetings and Beatings

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How ESM Enables Digital Transformation

The pandemic has forced organizations of all sizes to overcome colossal challenges and embrace flux. We’ve all heard stories about businesses having to adopt a new communication tool and train staff overnight, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Many companies are in the middle of fundamental transformation, enabling enterprises to create more business […]

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Swinging the Pendulum of IT Back to QA

I was reading Nuria Manuel’s excellent article about quality assurance (QA), and it got me thinking about the wide variety of ‘pendulums’ that impact IT. I call them pendulums because they follow the rule of “every action has an equal and opposite reaction,” and they work on fundamental truths of IT. For example, the one […]

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Puppet Survey Suggests DevOps Adoption is Stagnant

Puppet today published an annual State of DevOps report that suggests overall adoption of DevOps practices has stagnated. The survey of 2,650 IT, development and information security professionals finds 83% are implementing DevOps practices, to a degree. However, only 18% of respondents are working for organizations that have highly evolved, automated DevOps processes in place. […]

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Cycloid Brings Open DevOps Framework to the US and UK

Cycloid, a Paris, France-based provider of an open framework for implementing DevOps best practices, today announced it is expanding its operations into the U.S. and United Kingdom. Benjamin Brial, founder of Cycloid, said the Cycloid framework provides a lightweight approach to striking a balance between enabling developers to employ the tools they prefer and the […]

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Cleantech Nonprofit Earthshot Announces New Platform & Launch of Video Game Concept in Collaboration with Celebrity Chef Ron Duprat

Programming Designed to Influence and Inspire a Greener Future for All Los Angeles, CA, July 20, 2021 — Today, Earthshot, a disruptive 501c3 non-profit inspiring climate change action, announced their updated platform to change the narrative on climate change in addition to the launch of a video game concept in collaboration with Bravo’s Top Chef […]

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3 Reasons Your Digital Transformation Stalled

The more a company modernizes, the more value it gets from the cloud, but not all digital transformation efforts are created—and executed—equally. According to Gartner, “87% of senior business leaders say digitalization is a company priority, yet only 40% of organizations have brought digital initiatives to scale … [and] without a shared vision across the […]

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Don’t Look at This! IT’S A SECRET!

To continue the discussion about secrets after perusing this excellent report by GitGuardian—last time I went a little nuts about the number of secrets exposed in IT folks’ personal repositories. And it is a lot. I mean a lot of secrets. But you know what is scarier than, “A lot of secrets are leaked in […]

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Why IT Should Focus on Quality Over Velocity

Quality assurance (QA) isn’t a new phrase for developers. Most know it as a staple part of the software process that is crucial for producing quality code. But throughout the pandemic, with extreme pressure for businesses to digitally transform quickly, it’s a discipline at risk of being dismissed by organizations and tech leaders as a […]

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