Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Pinpoint Unveils Dashboard for Multiple DevOps Platforms

Pinpoint today launched a namesake operations dashboard for software development teams designed to span multiple tools and platforms. Company CEO Jeff Haynie said the Pinpoint dashboard provides a holistic view of software development projects in a way that eliminates the need to open tabs in multiple management consoles for each tool and platform that make […]

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GitHub Makes Private Repositories Free for Unlimited Users

GitHub this week announced is making available private repositories for an unlimited number of collaborators available to all GitHub accounts for free. Kelly Stirman, vice president of product strategy and marketing, said that subsidiary of Microsoft could make this move because it is now generating enough revenue from the enterprise edition of its platform to […]

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GitLab Responds To GitHub Making Teams Free – We All Win

Microsoft’s GitHub recently announced that it was going to make a change to its product lineup by making the team version of GitHub free and lowering the price on a full-featured version. The move seemed aimed squarely at matching GitLab’s offering. Well, now GitLab has responded to GitHub. While both of these excellent offerings compete […]

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Digital.ai: The Companies Formerly Known As XebiaLabs and CollabNet Plus

Another shoe has dropped in the continuing story of TPG Capital‘s foray into DevOps. The company formed by the merger of XebiaLabs and CollabNet VersionOne is now Digital.ai. Additionally, the company has acquired Arxan, a leader in application protection. I had a chance to catch up with Digital.ai’s CEO Ashok Reddy and Arxan COO Mark […]

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IBM Z Deepens Data Privacy Capabilities with New Air-Cooled Models and IBM Secure Execution for Linux

By Ross Mauri, GM of IBM Z In September 2019, IBM announcedIBM z15™, delivering industry-first data privacy capabilities with the ability to manage the privacy of customer data across hybrid multicloud environments, and to scale from one to four frames. For our clients on their journey to cloud, IBM z15™ and IBM LinuxONE IIIwas a major step forward around encrypting […]

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In IT, Purity Is Not Necessarily a Virtue

Throughout the history of IT, we’ve had our share of purists. OS purists, language purists, etc. The stark one was the “That is not Object Oriented Programming” crowd. While the poster-children of IT purity, we don’t really hear from them anymore—and thank goodness for that. But a new crowd has reared its head in DevOps […]

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Six Tips for a Successful DevOps Implementation

As we expand our digital world, there is an ever more urgent need to look after businesses that need to operate faster and with more agility. Because of this, DevOps has grown quickly and become central to a lot of organizations as they pursue a competitive advantage. However, some organizations struggle to implement DevOps as […]

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Prevent Technical Debt by Knowing When to Remove Feature Flags

As more organizations use feature flags and experiments, it’s critical to understand that some of these changes should exist for only a short or specific period of time, and then be removed from your codebase. Removing flags when appropriate avoids technical debt and complexity that can make your code fragile, harder to test and more […]

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Defining the Database Requirements of Dynamic JAMstack Applications

Zero-configuration hosting solutions such as Zeit Now and Netlify are taking the frontend community by storm due to their ease of use. If we add static site generators such as Gatsby/Next.js/Nuxt.js/Hugo/Jekyll to the mix and deploy our statically generated pages to a content delivery network (CDN), we get something highly desired with minimal effort: distributed […]

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Splunk Adds Remote Workforce Metrics Dashboard

Splunk has made available a Remote Work Insights dashboard designed to help IT administrators track and identify the most relevant IT metrics for a workforce that is working from home to help combat the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Company CTO Tim Tully said the dashboard is initially configured to track virtual private network (VPN) […]

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