Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Tight Demand Sets Some Tech Salaries Soaring

Technology industry workers are enjoying historic low unemployment rates, and those workers with the right skills are commanding high salaries. According to the Dice 2020 Tech Salary Report, the annual average pay in the technology industry reached $94,000 in 2019, up 1.3% from 2018. And those workers in the right specialties, and in the right […]

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DevSecOps: A Renewed Commitment to Secure Delivery, Part 1

Security has never been as high a priority than it is today, as companies fear they’ll be the next headline, the next victim of a data breach. Executives also worry about applications meeting the high standards of compliance–either with global regulations such as GDPR, state-oriented privacy laws or the many specific ones covering finance, health […]

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Survey Finds Much Room for APM Improvement

A survey of 317 application owners, developers and support team professionals in the U.S. and Canada published by SolarWinds finds that while reliance on application performance management (APM) tools is widespread, most IT teams are still relying on these tools to react to events rather than to proactively improve application experience and performance. The survey […]

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InfluxData announces availability of the leading time series platform on Google Cloud

The strategic partnership empowers Google Cloud customers with InfluxDB Cloud for powerful analysis of high volumes of time-sensitive data SAN FRANCISCO — February 4, 2020 — InfluxData, creator of the time series database InfluxDB, today announced the availability of InfluxDB Cloud on Google Cloud. The strategic collaboration, originally announced in April 2019, is part of […]

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Tips for Modern IT Admins’ Career to the Cloud

Fifteen years ago IT professionals experienced a drastically different day-to-day on the job. While the main mission has always remained constant—to take charge of all internal infrastructure—the infrastructure itself has moved off-premises over time. The complexity rested in networking for IT professionals. Routers, switches, firewalls and other gear needed to be managed so the network […]

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Multi-Cloud Adoption to Better Enable the Developer Workforce

Over the past decade, we started to see a broader shift toward the use of multiple cloud providers by the enterprise. The need to reduce risk, optimize cloud usage, manage costs and the push to open source and cloud vendor-agnostic technologies are providing more options for developers, which will likely lead to an even steeper […]

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Ten Questions Data Professionals Should Be Asking When Moving to the Cloud

You have finally decided to move your data into the cloud. Whether it was the ability to leverage the power of cloud compute, the promise of cost-savings or the scalability and flexibility that a cloud data warehouse can bring, it’s important to have a strategy in place. In order to set yourself up for success, […]

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SSH Key Management and Your Organization

It always starts out the same way: a few machines, a few users and a few SSH keys to manage. You manually copy their keys (and your own) to the appropriate machines. You might even say, “Screw it,” and share one key for root access. Admit it. It’s OK. Well, no, it’s not OK, but […]

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How to Successfully Adopt Mobile DevOps Practices

Mobile DevOps is more than simply adopting a new set of tools and practices. It also comes with the need to adopt a completely different mindset, in the form of a cultural-organizational change. The approach is based on the Agile methodology, but takes its practices further— not only by getting other teams more involved, but […]

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How to Achieve a Converged Toolchain

In recent years, there’s been an explosion of tools for developing and delivering software. In a single pipeline, a company will have separate tools to ideate, plan, code, verify, configure, release and monitor new software, and every pipeline can have different tools for each individual stage (i.e. ideation). That’s a lot of tools, and providing […]

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