Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Understanding Pillar 1 of AWS’ Well-Architected Framework

AWS’ Well-Architected Framework provides a wealth of incredibly valuable best practices and guidelines structured around five distinct pillars that more cloud-native organizations would do well to heed. The first of these pillars, Operational Excellence, recommends a number of particularly valuable techniques. However, successfully adopting the design principles and practices within Pillar No. 1 requires a […]

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Why Hiring Top Web Developers is a Good Idea

Web developers are a great addition to every organization. Having your own web developers to help you create web applications and websites can be invaluable to companies of every size. If you happen to be a software development team, they are indispensable members of your team. Because web developers are in such high demand, hiring […]

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AQUA CONTAINER SECURITY PLATFORM AWARDED CIS BENCHMARK CERTIFICATION

Industry’s first commercial solution to be certified for the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark Seattle, WA – 10 Dec. 2018 –KubeCon/CloudNativeCon – Aqua Security announced today that its Aqua Container Security Platform (CSP) has been certified by CIS Benchmarks™to compare the configuration status of Kubernetes clusters against the consensus-based best practice standards contained in the CIS Kubernetes […]

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Twistlock Introduces Hybrid Cloud Service Discovery and Expands Istio, Kubernetes, and Serverless Functions Support

In Addition, the 15th Release of Twistlock Expands Monitoring with Prometheus and Alerting with PagerDuty, AWS Security Hub, and IBM Security Advisor PORTLAND, OR, December 10, 2018–Twistlock, the leader in container and cloud native security, today announced the release of Twistlock 18.11. This substantial update now enables customers to easily discover cloud native services to […]

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What DevOps Can Learn from High Reliability Organizations

High reliability organizations are organizations that work in areas that are very hazardous or complex, and yet manage to have a lower accident rate than what would be normal for that environment. So what can DevOps and DevOps practitioners learn from the research of high reliability organizations? David Woods and Sidney Dekker both have done […]

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5 Ways KPI Analysis Helps DevOps

Four Vs drive big data solutions: volume, velocity, variety and veracity. Volume and velocity are technical considerations usually receiving a healthy dose of attention among architects and coders. However, variety and veracity often determine success or failure, and they tend to sneak up on teams who haven’t fully considered them. Key performance indicator, or KPI, […]

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Demystifying Crucial Phases of Project Management

With competition becoming more intense for development companies, project management is becoming a more integral part of every project. It’s no longer limited to the actual creation of a new project. Now, it’s about planning, communicating, collaborating and analyzing. With so many moving parts, it’s difficult to understand all of the important phases of project […]

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Reducing Poverty in the Age of Automation

In 1966, more than half of the people in the world lived in extreme poverty. I don’t mean public housing, food stamps, subsidized school lunch, free health clinic poverty. I mean the type of poverty in which there’s no electricity, no running water, no toilets and open sewers, and most children never see a doctor […]

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CollabNet VersionOne State of Agile Survey: Join the Fray

If you follow the news on Agile software development, topics such as adoption, scaling, Kanban, Scrum or certifications, it’s likely you saw statistics in your reading that were taken from the “State of Agile Report.” For the last 12 years, CollabNet VersionOne has been surveying the Agile software development community and providing this valuable body […]

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DevOps Chat: Digital Transformation with Paul Chapman of Box

It seems every organization is chasing digital transformation. Some companies are succeeding, while some are wallowing a bit, trying to figure out how to do it. Box is a company that is both successfully navigating digital transformation and being a catalyst for digital transformation at other organizations. In this DevOps Chat we speak with Paul […]

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