Build Your Code: A Complete, Introductory Gradle Tutorial Well, when it comes to developing software, learning a programming language isn’t the only thing you need to do, despite being a crucial step. It’s also essential you learn the surrounding ecosystem of the programming language, with all its auxiliary tools, such as unit testing frameworks, logging…
How to Select a Value From Dropdown With Selenium Older web applications were simple. They were static and included a couple of headings and paragraphs. But as web applications progressed, it became a different game altogether. As web applications get upgraded with new features, they become more complex. Modern web applications contain different kinds of…
What Is Pipeline as Code? A Simple Explanation With Examples Simply put, Pipeline as Code means treating your build and deploy jobs like application code. How you deliver and deploy your applications is just as important as how you create them, so managing those activities with the same policies and procedures you use for your…
What Is a Website Defacement Attack and How to Prevent It? Website defacement is a type of website vandalism. In short, an attacker finds a way to modify the files or contents of your website without your permission. Usually, they’ll change the contents of your website to something intended to embarrass you. Sometimes, activists deface…
How to Create a Software Development Project Plan Most software projects start with high expectations. But things often go awry during production and projects fail to get off the ground. While you can’t always prevent a project from going off the rails, you can increase your chances of success by sticking to a solid project plan. Keep…
What Is an OKR? An Introductory Walkthrough With Examples OKRs are one of those things that get thrown around in company chats to get people excited. Yet, when everyone gets the hang of them, things truly get interesting. OKR stands for “objectives and key results,” and contrary to what many people think, they aren’t just…
What Is the ELK Stack? Robust logging and log management is a nonnegotiable requirement in any serious system. If you operate applications in production or during the dev environment, you need information about what’s happening collected at scale. You also need to gather the logs generated by all your applications. Collecting logs isn’t enough. Previously, we…
Using Kotlin RecyclerView: The Essential Handbook RecyclerView is a ViewGroup ideal for displaying dynamic data. An example of such dynamic data is a list of weather forecasts for multiple days. Each item on the list can have properties like the date, temperature, and city for the forecast. With the help of RecyclerView, it is possible to…
We’ve got a long digest this week! What Is Structured Logging and How to Use It First, to learn what structured logging is, you must take a step back and understand what exactly is unstructured logging. With unstructured logging, events are expressed in plain text—in other words, plain English (or another language). The assumption here is…
SSH into a Docker Container? How to Execute Your Commands If you’re reading this, you’re probably just getting your head around this Docker thing. So we’re going to take a bold guess here and bet that, until recently, your local dev environment involved some sort of virtual machine engine—Vagrant, maybe? Just ask yourself: Why would you…
When, Why, and How to Normalize Data In many cases, insights are hiding right below the surface. Oftentimes this is due to underlying database errors. Data typically funnels in from multiple systems and endpoints with varying structures and forms. This makes it hard to discover, analyze, and present information with any sense of urgency. One way…
The Best Test Data Management (TDM) Tools in 2021 Test data management (TDM) is a term coined by quality assurance experts (QAs) in reference to tasks and processes around software testing. Since data is part of the phrase, it’s easy to myopically refer to test data management tools as simply “testing data generation” bots. Luckily,…
An In-Depth Guide to Data Masking Sensitive data attracts malicious actors who try to steal your data. So, when sensitive data is involved, you need to take care of data security. One very effective yet simple technique is data masking. In this post, Omkar Hiremath discusses why data masking is important and gives you some…
Golang CSRF Protection Guide: Examples and How to Enable It Go is a language created inside Google’s ranks for memory safety and concurrency. It made sense for development instances running (or developed) across distributed nodes as microservices were taking form. The term Golang refers to Go with “lang” specifying that we’re referencing the programming language.…
NodeJS Open Redirect Guide: Examples and Prevention One of the fundamental components of the Internet is the Uniform Resource Locator (URL). URLs let us seamlessly link together documents and websites from all across the Internet. It’s essentially the digital version of a postal address, letting us humans remember resource locations without having to remember complicated…