Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

IBM awards its second $50,000 Open Source Community Grant to internship and mentorship program Outreachy

By Todd Moore and Guillermo Miranda Last October, the open source community at IBM awarded a first-of-its-kind quarterly grant to promote nonprofits that are dedicated to education, inclusiveness, and skill-building for women, underrepresented minorities, and underserved communities in the open source world. Our Open Source Community Grant identifies and rewards future developers and open source […]

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Filling the Skills Gap for Effective DevSecOps

With the rise of DevSecOps comes a whole new need for training and upskilling. It isn’t a secret that the cybersecurity skills gap will only continue to grow. The security skills gap combined with the rise of DevSecOps has introduced hidden challenges organizations must address.   The Rise of DevSecOps  While DevOps accelerates agility and scalability […]

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The Dynamics of Social Distancing

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Taming the Shadow IT Beast and Runaway Spend

Do you know how much IT resources your employees are consuming? According to research conducted by the Everest Group, shadow IT spending accounts for a whopping 50% or more of the IT budget. Beyond these costs, shadow IT could end up costing you big in terms of a security breach: Gartner estimates that 33% of […]

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DevOps Chats: Mobile, Monoliths & Microservices, With LightStep

Daniel “Spoons” Spoonhower made a bit of a name for himself while he was at Google, as did his two co-founders of their latest company, LightStep. All three were there at the birth of the microservices wave that has swept through the software world. They left Google and started LightStep to help all developers build […]

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Lightstep Unveils New Observability Platform to Replace Conventional Monitoring Solutions

Built on top of rich distributed tracing data, metrics, and logs, the platform provides a unified view of telemetry data making it the quickest way to know what’s changed in system and service health   SAN FRANCISCO, April 2, 2020 — Lightstep, the leading provider of observability software for organizations adopting microservices and serverless, today […]

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GitLab Shifts 18 Features Into Core Open Source Platform

GitLab this week announced it has moved 18 features that previously organizations had to pay for into the core open source version of its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Scott Williamson, executive vice president of product management for GitLab, said as a general rule the company makes available DevOps tools for teams across the […]

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The Linux Foundation to Award 500 Training Scholarships

The Linux Foundation this week announced it will make up to 500 training scholarships available this year. Clyde Seepersad, general manager for training at the Linux Foundation, said the number of Linux Foundation Training (LiFT) Scholarships being made available is being increased because of both the demand for individuals with particular expertise such as Kubernetes […]

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CircleCI Surfaces More DevOps Insights

CircleCI today announced it is making it easier for DevOps teams to determine the amount of resources being consumed by its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to help make application development teams more efficient. Kunal Jain, senior product manager for CircleCI, said via the application programming interface (API) that CircleCI exposes DevOps teams can now […]

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Compuware Shifts Mainframe App Testing Left

Compuware today announced it is making it easier to shift application performance testing further left on to the shoulders of developers by adding support for a REST application programming interface (API) to its application performance management (APM) platform for mainframe applications, along with a plug-in for Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) environments. Sam Knutson, vice […]

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