Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

CNCF Advances CloudEvents Specification

In a move that portends well for future cloud interoperability initiatives, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced that the open source CloudEvents specification for describing event data had achieved a version 1.0 milestone. Doug Davis, senior technical staff member of IBM and co-chair of CNCF’s Serverless WG and the CloudEvents project, said CloudEvents […]

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Aviatrix Raises $40 Million in Series C Funding

CRV Leads Latest Round of Investment SANTA CLARA, CALIF., OCTOBER 28, 201 Aviatrix, the leading provider of advanced networking and security services for the multi-cloud enterprise, today announced it has secured $40 million in Series C funding led by existing investor CRV. Also participating in this round are previous investors Formation 8, Ignition Partners and […]

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DevOps Chat: CI/CD Velocity for Large Monolithic Services with Pinterest

Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Software Engineer Rainie Li played an essential role in implementing Spinnaker as part of Pinterest’s CI/CD pipeline. The results moved Pinterest from two scheduled deployments per day to continuous deployments, greater than 15 during business hours. This episode of DevOps Chats features a preview of Rainie’s talk, “How we introduced CI/CD […]

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The Role of Containers in Business Transformation

Containers hold new promise for business and digital transformation. Yet many differences exist between monitoring containers and monitoring other elements of infrastructure, such as VMs, storage, memory and compute. Understanding those differences is vital for ITOps managers as they navigate their businesses’ digital transformation. Interestingly, the differences are as much technical as they are organizational. […]

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Four Steps to Implement an Observability Strategy for Microservices

You’ve finally decided. You’re making the move to microservices and re-architecting your entire infrastructure. Some services will still be on-premises (those databases and their legacy apps are never moving), but a cloud-based microservices architecture will allow your teams to build and bring new products to market faster. But how do you handle the complexity that […]

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From Pets to X-as-Code: Enabling Control and Predictability for ITOps at Scale

Amy Wheelus, vice president of network cloud at AT&T, recently spoke about declarative predictability at the Open Networking Summit in Antwerp. AT&T is the world’s largest telecommunications company providing mission critical communication services where people’s jobs–and lives–can be on the line. As they move away from labor-intensive IT operations toward cloud-native automation, there is a […]

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Legacy Databases Are Holding Back Enterprise Digital Transformations

As enterprises rush to digitize their business operations and enhance customer engagement, few are seeing the success they hoped. A recent survey points to a couple of culprits, including the difficulty of utilizing data held in legacy databases. The survey, conducted by market research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf of Couchbase, of 450 heads of […]

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An Embarrassment of Riches

History says people rarely appreciate what they have in the heat of the moment. Our highly connected and high-speed world is no exception to this rule. The things that frustrate us are in our faces, while the things that make nearly everything better/safer/faster are taken for granted. That is every bit as true in IT […]

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Refactoring and Decomposition

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DevOps Chat: Monitoring Spinnaker on GKE with Miles Matthias

On a project to move one of Google’s Fortune 500 customers to Google Cloud, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Spinnaker open source, our DevOps Chat guest ran into the message “hang tight.” No scripts or documentation. Not to be delayed, Miles Matthias, Google Cloud Consultant with Container Heroes, filled the gap and contributed his work […]

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