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…
Top Tools That Help Improve the Development Workflow If you’re unfamiliar with the term, a development workflow is simply a system or process that software teams use to manage production. Development workflows span all stages of production, including planning, developing, testing, deployment and iteration. When it boils down to it, there’s no shortage of tools on…
A Leader’s Guide to Enterprise Application Integration Today’s software development companies have more reasons for enterprise application integration than ever before. In fact, not having a consolidated layout of applications could actually work to your disadvantage. To start with, more tools are available (and in use) along any software value delivery chain than previously fathomable.…
Heroku: Most Common Errors Explained The allure of quickly spinning up an app on a platform as a service (PaaS), as opposed to cobbling together a solution on an infrastructure as a service (IaaS), makes Heroku an appealing option for many developers. With the explosive growth in the platform as a service market, new features…
Kotlin AlertDialog: Explained in Detail With an Example Kotlin AlertDialog is a kind of dialog that displays a message with either one, two, or three action buttons. Dialogs are popular, and most apps have at least one feature that displays messages using a dialog. In this post, we’ll take a deep look at AlertDialog. You’ll find…
React CORS Guide: What It Is and How to Enable It Developers have struggled with CORS for longer than they should. This is because it’s a tricky concept to grasp, especially for new developers who are working with third-party APIs from their single-page applications on React, Angular, Vue, etc. In this post from Siddhant Varma, you…
How to Configure Remote Syslog Syslog is a standard for collecting, routing, and storing log messages. It emerged from the Sendmail project in the 1980s. In 2001, it was standardized as RFC 3164 and then as RFC 5424 in 2009. It’s supported on several different platforms, including Unix/Linux, BSD Unix, macOS, and network devices like…
What Does NIST’s Definition of Critical Software Mean to You? Well, as everyone knows, when it comes to public policy, cybersecurity, and industry standards, it can take quite a while (and many cooks) to complete a batch of pudding. Notwithstanding, this past Friday witnessed an important milestone in the effort to implement core directives contained…
Test Architecture: A Holistic Look at Application Testing Test architecture can be thought of at two levels. At the broader, more strategic level, test architecture is thinking holistically about the best way to test an application. It can help answer questions, such as, how do we want to use unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to…