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Instrumenting a JavaScript Application for OpenTelemetry, Part 1: Setup

This post looks at the first steps for instrumenting a JavaScript application to report OpenTelemetry metrics.

Updated June 1, 2022

by Chris Ward

CORE

· 5,792 Views · 1 Like

Confidence Is Good. Facts on Your Side, Better! — A Lesson for Efficient Software Development

An advice column that touches on a few things to be kept in mind when you start developing a new product or large piece of software.

June 1, 2022

by JD Namburi

· 4,705 Views · 2 Likes

API Testing for Open Banking Operations

For accomplishing greater milestones, financial bodies including banks must be supported by solid back-end systems that work in tandem with open APIs.

Updated June 1, 2022

by Mohit Shah

· 5,392 Views · 2 Likes

Comparing Distributed Databases

What do PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Redis, and ScyllaDB all have in common? And how do they differ?

Updated June 1, 2022

by Peter Corless

· 10,758 Views · 8 Likes

Event Mesh: Point-to-Point EDA

This article recounts a recent presentation from the 2022 EDA Summit as well as provides additional commentary surrounding the presenter's thoughts.

May 31, 2022

by Cameron HUNT

· 4,507 Views · 2 Likes

When Disaster Strikes: Production Troubleshooting

Production is falling and everything is lost? That used to be the case. Fail whale, hysteria, and panic. Developer observability fixes this!

May 31, 2022

by Shai Almog

CORE

· 4,965 Views · 4 Likes

True Component-Testing of the GUI With Karate Mock Server

In the days of server-side rendering, we needed the backend for GUI tests. Now, you can make true component tests with a fully mocked backend, more efficiently.

May 31, 2022

by Jasper Sprengers

· 5,677 Views · 4 Likes

Reasons Why DevOps Adoption Might Be of Help for Business

With DevOps adoption, they can streamline this process to perfection. But only when this execution is right.

May 31, 2022

by Yash Kasera

· 6,111 Views · 3 Likes

Creating an Event-Driven Architecture in a Microservices Setting

Is it possible for event-driven architectures and microservices to co-exist? We find out in this interview with Adam Bellemare.

May 31, 2022

by David Brown

CORE

· 17,876 Views · 4 Likes

AWS Lambda Basics: Writing Serverless Code

Lambda is a serverless event-driven compute service that lets you run simple functions and return the results.

May 31, 2022

by Jawad Hasan Shani

CORE

· 7,328 Views · 3 Likes

Conducting Sprint Retrospective Meetings

Agile is all about continuous improvement and active participation.Follow along with the process of conducting productive sprint retrospective meetings.

Updated May 31, 2022

by Prashant Verma

· 5,100 Views · 3 Likes

Setting Up a Dedicated Database Server on Raspberry Pi

Learn how to install and set up a MariaDB server on a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B with 8 GB of RAM that you can connect to your local network through WiFi or Ethernet.

May 31, 2022

by Alejandro Duarte

CORE

· 51,090 Views · 5 Likes

What Makes "Minimum" in Minimum Viable Product?

First, we explain the pros and cons of MVP. Then, use the simple MVP checklist as a guide to product development.

May 31, 2022

by Praise Iwuh

· 5,887 Views · 5 Likes

What Is Sharding?

Sharding is a technique of splitting some arbitrary set of entities into smaller parts known as shards. It is used to achieve better consistency and reduce contention in our systems.

Updated May 31, 2022

by Bartłomiej Żyliński

CORE

· 10,823 Views · 9 Likes