Mon.Dec 16, 2019

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The Best Way to Host MongoDB on DigitalOcean

Scalegrid

MongoDB is the #3 open source database and the #1 NoSQL database in the world. It’s a cross-platform document-oriented database that uses JSON-like documents with schema, and is leveraged broadly across startup apps up to enterprise-level businesses developing modern apps. While you may assume a great majority of the cloud database deployments are run on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, small to medium-sized businesses in particular are gravitating towards the developer-friendly cloud provi

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Intellectual debt: The hidden costs of machine learning

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Many of us are already familiar with technical debt. And while the concept is not new, the disruptions of cloud transformation and increasing time-to-market pressures shine a bright light on its many downsides. Summarized: technical debt is measured by the catch-up rework required to compensate for poor decisions. And while there’s always more than one way to solve a problem, short-sightedness should not rule the decision.

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Using Test Branches to Test Early in the Development Cycle

DZone

Learn how to use test branches! Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher, once said that "change is the only constant in life." These words fit perfectly with today's agile approach to software development and continuous delivery through a CI/CD pipeline. In this environment of continuous software change, it is extremely hard to keep up with testing and often times teams will compromise quality in favor of speed.

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Getting ready! Part 2: A taste of what’s to come in the “Release Better Software Faster” track at Perform 2020

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. In Part 1 of this blog series – Getting ready! A taste of what’s to come at Perform 2020’s “Release Better Software Faster” track – we highlighted what you can expect to learn about best practices for sessions 1 – 4 at Perform 2020. This blog, Part 2, we’ll be doing the same for sessions 5 – 7. If you recall from Part 1 , we went over survey results that showed 95% of companies are still not fully leveraging the power of DevOps, automation, cloud-native, or NoOp

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Why Should You Give Unit Testing a Second Chance

DZone

Why should you give Unit testing a second chance? We, developers, work hard. Software developing is not always intuitive or fun. It can drain our energy from thinking hard trying to solve different problems we are facing during our daily tasks. There are so many other things that affect our work for better or for worse.

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5 industries that demonstrate how blockchains go beyond finance

O'Reilly

Although blockchain technology is still in its early days, momentum has been building in the enterprise. While there has been much focus on blockchains in banking and payments, its impact has already extended far beyond finance. Here is a glimpse of just some of this work and the kind of intense learning that can be leveraged across industries. Health care.

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2020 Performance and Security Predictions

DZone

Surely, 2019 was the year we solved massive security breaches. Right? Right?