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How low-code/no-code AutomationEngine advances automated workflows

Dynatrace

But to be scalable, they also need low-code/no-code solutions that don’t require a lot of spin-up or engineering expertise. Low-code/no-code AutomationEngine fuels workflow automation The Dynatrace platform brings modern observability and workflow automation to the fore.

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C# Coding Convention: Coding Standard in C#

DZone

Coding conventions are a set of guidelines for writing code that is consistent, readable, and comprehensible. They are also sometimes called programming conventions, style guides, or coding standard.

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Top 10 Low-Code App Development Best Practices to Follow

DZone

Low-code is the present and future of software development. The low-code market is expected to increase from its $10.3 build a huge variety of applications using the low-code approach and have even created our own low-code app builder that helps our customers turn ideas into real apps.

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Simple Code: Immutability

DZone

In the world of object-oriented programming, it's not as used and as easy to use approach but there are ways to incorporate immutability to parts of the code and I strongly suggest you do so too. Immutability is a special thing that in my mind deserves a short explanation and praise.

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Writing Clean Code: Naming

DZone

When you start learning how to code your main focus is writing code that works correctly for the problem you are solving. Yes, code needs to work correctly and that is a good place to start learning. Clean code is readable, extensible, changeable, and maintainable.

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The Ultimate Code Quality Checklist

DZone

It is a common practice nowadays to check website code quality before executing any website code on a live website. This article focuses on some common questions that website owners commonly ask when they first start their search for a good coding software solution.

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Code Quality Metrics

DZone

"Employing these Metrics to excel the performance of code directly impacts the profitability of the business. For the developers, practicing to write a good quality code in the initial phase of the coding job not only prevents the efforts and hours spent in précising the errors but also the costs are reduced. So, if your goal is high reliability, readability, and efficiency in the code, you need to employ quality checks for your code.

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7 Continuous Code Quality and Automated Code Review Tools

DZone

What Is Continuous Code Quality? What Are Automated Code Review Tools? An automated code review tool totally automates the code review process so that a reviewer has to only focus on the code.

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Automated Code Review Tools for Developers in 2021

DZone

Code review is a technique that can improve the quality of a codebase by having multiple developers look for bugs and other problems before passing them on to others. Manual code reviews are costly and time-consuming, which is why many development teams use automated tools to do this work. Automated code review tools can help you automate the process, improve your code quality, and save valuable developer time.

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Top 7 Static Code Analysis Tools

DZone

What Is a Static Code Analysis? Static code analysis or Source code analysis is a method performed on the ‘static’ (non-running) source code of the software with static code analysis tools that attempt to highlight potential vulnerabilities. Static code analyzers check source code for specific vulnerabilities as well as for compliance with various coding standards. Get code insights before execution.

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Code Quality Software That Makes A Difference

DZone

However, one proven approach is comparing how well a given code interacts with its neighbors in the same technical domain.". In the world of software development, code quality often comes to mean a certain level of complexity in a code.

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Why I am coding?

DZone

I started coding when I was 8 years old, and I am 46 today. This implies I've got 38 years of software development experience, roughly 25 as a professional - And to be honest with you, the answer to the above question is actually "drugs".

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An In-Depth Explanation of Code Complexity

DZone

It's no secret code is a complicated thing to write, debug, and maintain which is necessary for high software quality. Moreover, high code complexity brings with it a higher level of code defects, making the code costlier to maintain. So, by reducing code complexity, we can reduce the number of bugs and defects, along with its lifetime cost. What exactly is complex code?

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How To Generate Code Coverage Report Using JaCoCo-Maven Plugin

DZone

Code coverage is a software quality metric commonly used during the development process that let’s you determine the degree of code that has been tested (or executed). There are a number of code coverage tools for languages like Java, C#, JavaScript, etc.

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Evaluating JS in The Browser for A Low Code Product

DZone

I work at Appsmith , an open-source low code platform for developers to build internal tools and workflows. At Appsmith, our developer users define business logic by writing any JS code in between {{ }} dynamic bindings almost anywhere in the app.

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Find vulnerabilities in your code—don’t wait for someone to exploit them

Dynatrace

All-new Dynatrace code-level vulnerability detection All-new Dynatrace code-level vulnerability detection evaluates all requests passing through your applications to identify vulnerabilities. Application security Product news Application Security code-level vulnerability detection

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Static Analysis Protects Your Code From Time Bombs

DZone

Static code analysis allows you to identify and eliminate many defects at an early stage. c pvs-studio static code analysis bug sast static code analysis tool blender buffer overflowMoreover, it's possible to detect dormant errors that don't show themselves when they appear.

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Legacy Code Refactoring: Tips, Steps, and Best Practices

DZone

Nobody loves to work on legacy code because it can be a confusing endeavor; at best, it’s time-consuming. But do we now live with the huge repercussions and costs of retaining and utilizing legacy codes as they are?

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The Dark Side of Coding Bootcamps To Consider When Entering

DZone

Back in 2012, the learn-to-code movement arrived. As some of you probably remember, the don't-learn-to-code movement came soon after.

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Low Code Platforms for Test Automation: A Benchmark

DZone

Considering the trend toward low code solutions for test automation at the UI level, we wanted to run some experiments comparing the execution time of some of the most popular options. software testing test automation qa low codeThe faster we get feedback, the better.

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What is infrastructure as code? Discover the basics, benefits, and best practices

Dynatrace

The IT world is rife with jargon — and “as code” is no exception. “As code” means simplifying complex and time-consuming tasks by automating some, or all, of their processes. What is infrastructure as code? Because IAC is code, it needs regular testing.

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SRP Is the MEDUSA of Clean Code Family

DZone

While we are hearing tips on Clean code, the most common tip is maintaining SRP while writing class or methods, in a broader scope Module/Package/Service/API. Most of the time it succumbs us and we are ending up with anti-KISS code but If we use it in the right proportion, then we can create a cohesive and robust architecture. java tutorial performance clean code code smell srp design principle srp design principle program

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Nurturing, Motivating and Recognizing Non-Code Contributions

Percona Community

When discussing contributions, we still see a lot of emphasis on the code contributions into project repositories. But the open source world is extensive and diverse, and everyone can find their place there.

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How Readable Is Your Code? Part 2

DZone

So CYC has no intention to be a readability code metric. Cognitive Complexity (CC) attempts to count the cognitive effort required to understand the code's flow. Let's take a look at the next example: java performance clean code readable code cyclomatic complexityOnce Again About Cyclomatic Complexity. In the first part, I've introduced Cyclomatic Complexity ( CYC ) metrics in the previous part. CYC was invented a long time ago (in 1976) by Thomas J. McCabe.

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How Readable Is Your Code? Part 1

DZone

How practically evaluate notions like code maintainability, readability, transparency? Cyclomatic Complexity — Number of Scenarios in Code. Cyclomatic complexity is a metric invented to find out the number of tests to cover the given code fully. This metric also can be used to measure the readability of your code. Cyclomatic Complexity shows how many scenarios consist of your code (or how many independent ways inside its graph).

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The Evolution of Development and Coding

DZone

I had the opportunity to catch up with Andi Grabner , DevOps Activist at Dynatrace during day two of Dynatrace Perform. I've know Andi for seven years and he's one of the people that has helped me understand DevOps since I began writing for DZone.

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Write Optimized Spark Code for Big Data Applications

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Apache Spark is a powerful open-source distributed computing framework that provides a variety of APIs to support big data processing. PySpark is the Python API for Apache Spark , which allows Python developers to write Spark applications using Python instead of Scala or Java.

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9 Free Best Code Editors for Windows and Mac In 2020

DZone

It is always exciting for developers from all over the world whenever they get to showcase their best code editor at computer expos and tech conferences. In this write-up, we will talk about the best coding software for multiple platforms.

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Path to NoOps part 2: How infrastructure as code makes cloud automation attainable—and repeatable—at scale

Dynatrace

Infrastructure as code is a way to automate infrastructure provisioning and management. In this blog, I explore how Dynatrace has made cloud automation attainable—and repeatable—at scale by embracing the principles of infrastructure as code. Infrastructure-as-code.

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Code Coverage vs Test Coverage — Which Is Better?

DZone

Test Coverage and Code coverage are the most popular methodologies for measuring the effectiveness of the code. This is why I thought of coming up with an article to talk about the differences between code coverage and test coverage in detail. Make sure you stay covered!

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Manage your monitoring as code with Dynatrace’s HashiCorp Terraform integration

Dynatrace

HashiCorp’s Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as a code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. What is monitoring as code? What are the benefits of monitoring as code? Making monitoring as code a reality.

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What Is Huffman Coding?

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Huffman Coding: Why Do I Care? Suppose we want to compress a string (Huffman coding can be used with any data, but strings make good examples). Have you ever wanted to know: How do we compress something, without losing any data? Why do some things compress better than others? How does GZIP work? In 5 Minutes or Less. programming computer science

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Reporting Code Coverage Using Maven and JaCoCo Plugin

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Code coverage is a metric indicating the percentage of lines of code that are executed when running automated tests, specifically unit and integration tests , for instance. performance xml maven code code coverage tests jacocoIt’s known that having automated tests as part of your build process improves the software quality and reduces the number of bugs.

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Code Review for Software Quality

DZone

Software code review plays an important role in software quality. The code review can happen in multiple stages, by multiple people, on multiple deliverables. Reviewing code for software quality can be stressful! You may also like: Code Review. Peer Code Reviews. performance software developent software quality code reviews pull requests knowledge retentionEach one of them focuses on specific areas of software.

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Everything as Code

Dynatrace

At Dynatrace we believe that monitoring and performance should both be automated processes that can be treated as code without the need for any manual intervention. And, applying the “Everything as Code” principles can greatly help achieve that. Treating these different processes as code will ensure that best practices are followed. Benefits of Everything as Code. Since code is now version controlled, rollbacks should be easy to apply. Dynatrace news.

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Netflix at MIT CODE 2020

The Netflix TechBlog

Martin Tingley In November, Netflix was a proud sponsor of the 2020 Conference on Digital Experimentation (CODE), hosted by the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. We are all looking forward to CODE 2021, and to engaging with the experimentation community throughout 2021.

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No-code vs. Low-code vs. High-code: An Ultimate Showdown of the Web Development Method

Simform

No-code and low-code platforms provide rapid development, but there are limitations of customizations, integrations, and extensibility. On the other hand, high-code development offers high-level customizations with better extensibility.

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No-code vs. Low-code vs. High-code: An Ultimate Showdown of the Web Development Method

Simform

No-code and low-code platforms provide rapid development, but there are limitations of customizations, integrations, and extensibility. On the other hand, high-code development offers high-level customizations with better extensibility.

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My Funny Habit: Code Review for Solo Projects

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I have a funny habit. Well, I guess it’s a funny habit. I never thought of it as funny. Then people started pointing it out to me, and asking why I did such a funny thing. devops codereview

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Nurturing, Motivating and Recognizing None Code Contributions

Percona Community

When discussing contributions, we still see a lot of emphasis on the code contributions into project repositories. But the open source world is extensive and diverse, and everyone can find their place there.

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The Block Allocation Policy of Virtual Distributed File System at the Source Code Level

DZone

In this article, we analyze the policies of block allocation from the source code Alluxio workers are responsible for managing local resources, and they store data as blocks.

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Testing Even Before a Line of Code Is Written: Is It Possible?

DZone

Most commonly, however, testing occurs after the coding process has been completed. In his book, he even wrote that testing should be done “even before a line of code is written

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Testing Code With REST Calls Made Easy

DZone

These days, our code frequently has to reach out to a remote server as part of its job, usually consuming an API or some other service. Frequently, our code communicates with these remote services in a RESTful manner. Introduction. java server performance spring rest http junit mocking frameworks

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