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How To Add, Remove, or Rotate Pages in a PDF Document Using Java

Aggregated on: 2022-09-06 17:23:07

Given the quantity of free PDF editing tools available online (including the native tools present within a PDF file), it isn’t all that difficult to make small-scale changes to PDF documents when the need arises. Making those same changes at a greater scale, however, presents an entirely new challenge.   Let’s say you have 100 PDF files, each requiring the same editing operations.  In this case, it doesn’t make sense to perform the changes manually: the inefficiency of that process ultimately creates more problems than it solves, getting in the way of competing tasks/priorities.  The most efficient way to make changes to large volumes of PDF documents at scale is to do so programmatically, using APIs which are designed to communicate with compressed PDF files and manipulate their properties with ease.  

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How to Monetize Your APIs: Choosing Your API Monetization Stack

Aggregated on: 2022-09-06 16:53:07

The technology you choose to start your project with determines what your product is capable of now and what it will be capable of in the future. Finding the right stack to build on top of is one of the biggest engineering challenges you can face. Picking a stack that allows you to build a product and get to market rapidly is great unless that same choice limits the scalability and features of a product in the future. Pick a stack that is well beyond your current and future needs, and this could lead to difficulties building the initial project you’ve set out to build. A balance must be struck between your current needs and the needs of your product and customers in the future. When it comes to making money from your APIs, picking the right stack can help you get up and running quickly and allow for flexibility for your business and its customers. Let’s take a look at a few ways to assess which stack best fits your API monetization needs.

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Preventing SQL Injections in Java With JPA and Hibernate

Aggregated on: 2022-09-06 15:53:07

When we have a look at OWASP's top 10 vulnerabilities [1], SQL Injections are still in a popular position. In this short article, we discuss several options on how SQL Injections could be avoided. When Applications have to deal with databases existing always high-security concerns, if an invader got the possibility to hijack the database layer of your application, he can choose between several options. Stolen the data of the stored users to flood them with spam is not the worst scenario that could happen. Even more problematic would be when stored payment information got abused. Another possibility of an SQL Injection Cyber attack is to get illegal access to restricted pay content and/or services. As we can see, there are many reasons why to care about (Web) Application security.

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What Is a Distributed Database?

Aggregated on: 2022-09-06 15:08:07

What Is a Distributed Database? A distributed database is not restricted to a single system and is dispersed across numerous places, such as two or more computers or a network of computers. A distributed database or data management system is spread over several sites with no physical parts. This can be required if a specific database needs to be accessible to many individuals across the globe.

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Archiving Composition Over the Heritage With CDI Decorator and Delegator

Aggregated on: 2022-09-05 22:53:06

Composite over inheritance is an OOP design principle we've followed for several years. Like me, you might have seen it in the Effective Java book, and we have wanted to pursue it since then.  The inheritance brings several pitfalls, such as maintainability and a clear code. Beyond the semantics, the sample that I love to use is the cake that needs Salt. It does not make sense for a Cake to extend a Sea only because it needs Salt. In this case, it is a much better composition as well. 

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How to Design Software Architecture: Top Tips and Best Practices

Aggregated on: 2022-09-05 20:38:06

Good software design is essential to a system's functioning and integrity. It enhances performance, improves quality, increases scalability, and makes the system more manageable and maintainable. A sound business strategy, quality attributes, human dynamics, design, and the IT environment influence software architecture and design. The write-up below solves further queries about the software's architecture and design aspects. What Is Software Architecture? Software architecture is how a system is organized. This structure encompasses all elements, their interactions, the setting in which they function, and the design concepts that guide the software. It includes a set of software architecture principles for you to follow. 

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How GPT-Neo Can Be Used in Different Tasks

Aggregated on: 2022-09-05 18:38:06

GPT3 has changed the level of language models and revolutionized AI by its capacity to learn with few examples, as GPT3 is a few-shot learner. However, it is not open-sourced, and access to OpenAI’s API is only available upon request. So EleutherAI is working on creating a similar model to GPT3, which is named GPT-Neo. GPT-Neo is a transformer-based language model whose architecture is nearly the same architecture as the GPT3 model, and the results are also roughly equal to the lower versions of the GPT3 model. GPT-Neo is trained on the Pile Dataset. Same as GPT3, GPT-Neo is also a few-shot learner. And the good thing about GPT-Neo over GPT3 is it is an open-source model.

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oeHealth - Odoo Medical and Hospital management software

Aggregated on: 2022-09-05 17:38:06

oeHealth is an electronic suite of Odoo hospital management system which supports all the functionalities of EMR, EHR and consists of all those features which help hospital administration in reducing their workload and provide the best healthcare services to the patients. Install Now: https://apps.odoo.com/apps/modules/15.0/oehealth_all_in_one

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Angular vs React: Which JS Framework Is Better?

Aggregated on: 2022-09-05 17:38:06

Currently, there are 1.9 billion active websites with 4.6 Google searches per day and more than 5.4 billion unique Internet users. To date, the market size of the Web Design Services industry is equal to $11 billion, with the total number of web developers and designers in the US expected to increase to 205,000 in 2030 from 178,900 in 2020. The revenue in the application development software industry is expected to reach $149.7 billion in 2022 and grow to $218.80 billion by 2027 at a CAGR of 7.89%. The top 5 countries expected to generate the most revenues over the 2022-2027 period include:

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What Is Software Stack?

Aggregated on: 2022-09-05 16:38:06

On the surface, an application may look simple as it aims to solve end-users problems. However, under the hood, a collection of components known as the software stack plays a crucial role in how the application works. As a developer, you must know about software stack. This article will cover "What is Software Stack?" and its different layers. We'll also cover popular software stacks so that you can learn which software stack to pick for your application development. Let's get started.

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Node.js vs React.js Comparison: Which to Choose for Your JavaScript App Development?

Aggregated on: 2022-09-05 15:23:06

Both Node.js and React.js are JavaScript, yet both are completely different. The main difference between Node.js and React.js is that Node.js is a back-end framework, while React.js is used for user interface development for the app. Yet, both have cons, pros, and unique use cases for mobile app development.

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How Does the Milvus Vector Database Ensure Data Security?

Aggregated on: 2022-09-05 15:08:06

In full consideration of your data security, user authentication and transport layer security (TLS) connection are now officially available in Milvus 2.1. Without user authentication, anyone can access all data in your vector database with SDK. However, starting from Milvus 2.1, only those with a valid username and password can access the Milvus vector database. In addition, in Milvus 2.1 data security is further protected by TLS, which ensures secure communications in a computer network. This article aims to analyze how Milvus, the vector database ensures data security with user authentication and TLS connection and explain how you can utilize these two features as a user who wants to ensure data security when using the vector database. What Is Database Security and Why Is It Important?Database security refers to the measures taken to ensure that all data in the database are safe and kept confidential. Recent data breach and data leak cases at Twitter, Marriott, and Texas Department of Insurance, etc, makes us all the more vigilant to the issue of data security. All these cases constantly remind us that companies and businesses can suffer from severe loss if the data are not well protected and the databases they use are secure. How Does the Milvus Vector Database Ensure Data Security?In the current release of 2.1, the Milvus vector database attempts to ensure database security via authentication and encryption. More specifically, on the access level, Milvus supports basic user authentication to control who can access the database. Meanwhile, on the database level, Milvus adopts the transport layer security (TLS) encryption protocol to protect data communication. User Authentication The basic user authentication feature in the Milvus vector database supports accessing the vector database using a username and password for the sake of data security. This means clients can only access the Milvus instance upon providing an authenticated username and password. The Authentication Workflow in the Milvus Vector DatabaseAll gRPC requests are handled by the Milvus proxy; hence authentication is completed by the proxy. The workflow of logging in with the credentials to connect to the Milvus instance is as follows. Create credentials for each Milvus instance, and the encrypted passwords are stored in etcd. Milvus uses bcrypt for encryption as it implements Provos and Mazières's adaptive hashing algorithm. On the client side, SDK sends ciphertext when connecting to the Milvus service. The base64 ciphertext (<username>:<password>) is attached to the metadata with the key authorization. The Milvus proxy intercepts the request and verifies the credentials. Credentials are cached locally in the proxy. Authentication Workflow When the credentials are updated, the system workflow in the Milvus vector database is as follows ..Root coord is in charge of the credentials when insert, query, and delete APIs are called. When you update the credentials because you forget the password, for instance, the new password is persisted in, etcd. Then all the old credentials in the proxy's local cache are invalidated. The authentication interceptor looks for the records from local cache first. If the credentials in the cache is not correct, the RPC call to fetch the most updated record from root coord will be triggered. And the credentials in the local cache are updated accordingly. 

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How to Install Pixie for Kubernetes Monitoring: The Complete Guide

Aggregated on: 2022-09-04 19:53:06

Since Pixie's acquisition by New Relic in late 2020, there has been rapid growth in its features, scope, and vision. It does not end there. New Relic has an ambitious long-term roadmap for a Pixie that better supports third-party tools, plugins, and very large Kubernetes clusters. It is important to highlight that most older monitoring systems were considered inefficient due to their operational overhead. Taking this in the context of a cloud environment, where you're paying by the resources used, this can quickly become expensive. Pixie offers monitoring, telemetry, metrics, and more with less than 5% CPU overhead and latency degradation during data collection. Extended platform usage with considerable workloads will maintain an average of 2% overhead, an excellent improvement over legacy systems.

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What Is Product-Led Growth and Why Is It Critical for API-First Companies?

Aggregated on: 2022-09-04 19:53:06

There’s a common misconception that product-led growth means a business doesn’t focus on sales. That’s not the case. It’s just that product-led growth layers in sales later in the customer journey. This can be a hugely effective approach, particularly when it’s combined with deep data insights to drive that growth. For API-first companies, this product-led approach is a cornerstone of success. We’ll dive into the detail of why it’s so critical below, but first, let’s start with the basics…

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Amazon EKS Case Studies: How Are Businesses Benefiting from EKS?

Aggregated on: 2022-09-04 19:23:06

Containerization is becoming increasingly popular for the scalability, agility, portability, faster deliveries, and modernization it provides. But for all the benefits it offers, containerization is not a silver bullet. It poses an operational challenge when managing large clusters. This is where container orchestration steps in. Container orchestration automates all tasks related to cluster deployment, management, and scaling. And Kubernetes is one such popular platform, with 96% of organizations using it or evaluating it as a preferred container orchestration solution.

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Getting Started with Chaos Engineering

Aggregated on: 2022-09-04 19:23:06

Breaking stuff on purpose primarily in the production environment is one of the mantras in chaos engineering. But when you tell your plan to your engineering manager or product owner, you will often get some resistance.  Their concerns are valid. What if breaking stuff is irreversible? What will happen to the end users? Will our support ticket system get busy?

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Backups Are Moving Away from On-Premises Boxes

Aggregated on: 2022-09-03 23:08:05

Organizations are widely beginning to shift away from on-premises boxes for data backups and turning their attention instead to emerging cloud options. There are numerous reasons for this, but security concerns are key among them. Backup-as-a-Service is on the rise in response to this shift, with new providers emerging to specialize in convenient cloud backup services.  A Case of Security and Convenience Every organization has their own unique situation, but there are some common threads evident in the growing shift away from on-prem backups. Many organizations start off with on-prem boxes for their backups because they are easier at first and may seem like the simplest solution. Data can be stored offline, but close enough at hand to facilitate data recovery if needed without too much hassle. 

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Logistics Automation to Strengthen Process Efficiency

Aggregated on: 2022-09-03 22:38:05

The timely and perfect conveyance of resources to people is the cornerstone of logistics systems. Despite technological developments, manufacturers, suppliers, and distributors are continually seeking effective alternatives to get their products to potential clients. Businesses may use logistic automation to obtain a competitive advantage over their competitors in this area. Logistics is one of the large businesses that continuously supports other critical sectors, and we all rely on it in some manner in our everyday lives. This business is valued at more than 5.7 trillion euros and is regarded to be the bedrock of global commerce, and automation has always been a strong fit for the logistics industry.

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Using the Airflow ShortCircuitOperator to Stop Bad Data from Reaching ETL Pipelines

Aggregated on: 2022-09-03 22:38:05

I'm a huge fan of Apache Airflow and how the open-source tool enables data engineers to scale data pipelines by more precisely orchestrating workloads.  But what happens when Airflow testing doesn’t catch all of your bad data? What if “unknown unknown” data quality issues fall through the cracks and affect your Airflow jobs? 

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Row Level Security in Hyperlambda and SQL

Aggregated on: 2022-09-03 20:38:05

We’ve always had row-level security in Hyperlambda. However, as of today, row-level security in Hyperlambda and SQL is a declarative feature when generating your CRUD backend. Look at the below screenshot to understand. The above is a simple table I added to the Aista CRM plugin using SQL Studio. The idea is to have a single table where each user can store notes for later. The “owner” field is the username of who’s note the particular record belongs to. No users should have access to other users’ notes. This idea is called “row level security”. If you reproduce the above database table in SQL Studio then go to the CRUD Generator, and select your database and table, you’ll see something like this if you expand the “owner” column.

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Error Handling via Dead Letter Queue in Apache Kafka

Aggregated on: 2022-09-03 20:08:05

Recognizing and handling errors is essential for any reliable data streaming pipeline. This blog post explores best practices for implementing error handling using a Dead Letter Queue in Apache Kafka infrastructure. The options include a custom implementation, Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, the Spring framework, and the Parallel Consumer. Real-world case studies show how Uber, CrowdStrike, and Santander Bank build reliable real-time error handling at an extreme scale. Apache Kafka became the favorite integration middleware for many enterprise architectures. Even for a cloud-first strategy, enterprises leverage data streaming with Kafka as a cloud-native integration platform as a service (iPaaS).

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Database Replication: Open-Source Tools and Options

Aggregated on: 2022-09-02 21:23:05

For the past few years, business systems have been generating large amounts of data and need tools to manage the data. One of the business requirements was to copy the primary data to secondary databases. Several popular tools are available in the market to replicate the data from master DB to secondary DB. This article will discuss various open-source tools for DB replication and stream-based replication for real-time. Replication is the process of sharing/storing information in multiple places to ensure reliability, fault tolerance, and accessibility. The replication options are described as follows:

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Which Is the Best OS To Use To Develop a Java Application?

Aggregated on: 2022-09-02 19:53:05

One subject that often evokes a lot of debate is which is the best OS to use to develop a Java application. This article gives my view on the issue. Java runs very well on Windows, macOS, and Linux Distributions.

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Securing Containers With Seccomp Filters

Aggregated on: 2022-09-02 19:23:05

Many businesses are adopting containers as a foundational technology used to manage and run their applications. If you’ve worked much with containers, it’s easy to see why: they enable entirely new levels of portability and scalability. But the adoption of containers, like any other new technology, also means new ways to exploit applications. Depending on the container’s configuration, an exploited application can eventually lead to the compromise of the host that the container is running on. There are also other implications to consider, such as potential secrets stored as environment variables in the container and what they have access to. If you want to know more about  Docker containers security best practices specifically, GitGuardian proposes a useful cheat sheet.

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Synchronize BA, DevOps, and QA With Cloud Testing

Aggregated on: 2022-09-02 16:53:05

In this article, we will explore the various phases of team growth and the common challenges faced by tech leadership during each stage and also learn about tools and techniques to avoid pitfalls because, according to this report, disharmony among teams and investors is among the top reasons why tech companies fail.  Tech Start-Ups and Teams The historical background of tech startups can be traced back to the early days of the internet and the dot-com boom. This was when a new breed of entrepreneur emerged, one more comfortable with technology and its potential to create new businesses and disrupt existing ones. These entrepreneurs were quick to seize on new opportunities and were willing to take risks to achieve their goals.

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How to Securely Configure an AWS EC2 Instance

Aggregated on: 2022-09-02 16:23:05

This article by Ayush Priya was originally featured on the Kloudle blog.  AWS’ Elastic Compute Cloud, more popularly known as EC2, is a service that allows organizations to spin up virtual machines that can be used to host and run applications, databases, and much more. EC2 instances come with a wide variety of options, from selecting the number of CPU cores to disk space, memory, and operating system, to name a few. The EC2 service also comes packed with different configuration options and settings for an instance to work with. Uncle Ben said, “With great power comes great responsibility,” and in this case with a lot of settings to choose from comes a lot of misconfigurations. Thus, this article will look at how we can securely configure our EC2 instances.

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Why Radiologists in the Healthcare Sector Will Gain From AI

Aggregated on: 2022-09-02 15:53:05

In the radiology field, talk of artificial intelligence (AI) has become commonplace. Many think AI, also known as machine learning or deep learning, may improve radiologists’ operations, enable quantitative radiology, and help identify genetic markers. Radiologists are very active medical specialists. Any errors would be unaffordable. They must communicate with a broad spectrum of referring medical professionals, including neurologists, urologists, orthopedic specialists, and more. They must always be on their toes. What can AI offer these overworked radiologists to improve their performance?

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The Database CI/CD Best Practice With GitHub

Aggregated on: 2022-09-02 15:53:05

Database change is a tricky part of the application development process: it usually involves multiple databases from different environments and cross-team collaboration, to add on top of it, databases are touch and go. It got us thinking: can we treat databases the same way we treat application code? DORA (DevOps Research & Assessment) pointed out that integrating database work into the software delivery process positively contributes to continuous delivery. It’s about time to make databases a part of the CI/CD cycle.

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Cloud Computing and Cybersecurity: Risk Factor and Prevailing Trends

Aggregated on: 2022-09-02 13:53:05

Cybersecurity protects internet-connected devices such as hardware, software, and data from various online threats. Cybersecurity ensures that the public relies on public services and government organizations. Business requires cyber security to safeguard their data, intellectual property, and money. Cybersecurity has risen to the top priority list for businesses worldwide in recent years. Privacy legislation such as Europe's General Data Protection Regulation and the upcoming California Consumer Privacy Act will play a larger role in CIOs' data handling and privacy decision-making.  The global cybersecurity market in 2021 was $216.10 billion, and by 2030 it will reach $478.68 billion at a CAGR of 9.5% during the forecast period 2021–2030. 

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Autoloader to Keep Delta Lake Hot With Data

Aggregated on: 2022-09-02 12:53:05

While working on batch ingestion use cases on Data Lake, we mainly deal with files for updates. While designing native Cloud-based data platforms and leveraging available frameworks, there is always a concern about reducing the laborious efforts of implementing file-based frameworks and notification mechanisms. Implementing own custom frameworks for file life cycle would be 'reinventing the wheel' with a high risk for failure when there has been native integration between Cloud native storages - S3, ADLS, and PaaS-based Data services - Databricks to provide a complete solution.  I encountered a similar decision-making process and saw that file-based ingestion was streamlined. The analytics delta lake layer was kept hot with incoming data updates with Databricks Autoloader. Autoloader has flawless integration between Azure ADLS, AWS S3, and Spark, Delta lake format on Azure, and AWS platforms with a native cloud file-based notification mechanism.

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End-to-End Tracing With OpenTelemetry

Aggregated on: 2022-09-02 04:08:04

Whether you implement microservices or not (and you probably shouldn't), your system is most probably composed of multiple components. The most straightforward system is probably made of a reverse proxy, an app, and a database. In this case, monitoring is not only a good idea, it's a requirement. The higher the number of components through which a request may flow, the strongest the requirement. However, monitoring is only the beginning of the journey. When requests start to fail en masse, you need an aggregated view across all components. It's called tracing, and it's one of the pillars of observability. The other two are metrics and logs.

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The Future of Observability: OpenTelemetry Adoption

Aggregated on: 2022-09-01 21:38:04

Chronosphere has its eye on the future of observability, and we are constantly talking to companies and industry experts about the observability challenges ahead. Sharing is caring, so we’ve started a video series talking about hot observability topics, and we’re summarizing those discussions in some quick-read blogs. We kick things off with the spotlight on Chronosphere co-founder and CEO, Martin Mao, who shares his insights with Chronosphere Technical Writer, Chris Ward, about why 2022 will be a big year for OpenTelemetry adoption. 

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MQTT Essentials

Aggregated on: 2022-09-01 21:38:04

The Internet of Things (IoT) has recently gained massive traction. IoT challenges enterprises, small companies, and developers with new problems to solve. While HTTP is the de facto protocol for the human web, communication between machines at scale requires a paradigm shift — steering away from request/response and leading toward publish/subscribe. This is where the ultra-lightweight, massively scalable, open, and easy-to-implement MQTT protocol enters the picture. In this Refcard, we dive into what MQTT is and how it works, including brokers, client libraries, and more.

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Advanced Python Techniques Every Programmer Should Know

Aggregated on: 2022-09-01 21:08:04

Python is a versatile programming language that has seen increasing popularity in recent years. If you're looking to up your game as a programmer, you'll want to be familiar with some of the advanced techniques featured in this article.  These six Python tips will help you develop more effective and efficient code, from object-oriented programming to data structures. These Python tips will help you develop more effective and efficient code.

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How to Use JWTs for Client-Side Auth With GraphQL

Aggregated on: 2022-09-01 19:23:04

JWTs (JSON Web Token) is a popular way of handling auth. In this article, we will dig deep into best practices in implementing JWT on the client side while keeping security considerations in mind. The examples used are with GraphQL clients, but the concepts can apply to any front-end client. For a detailed, technical description of JWTs refer to this article.

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CockroachDB TIL: Volume 9

Aggregated on: 2022-09-01 17:53:04

This is my series of articles covering short "today I learned" topics as I work with CockroachDB. Read the previous installments: Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 Volume 5 Volume 6 Volume 7 Volume 8 Topics Topic 1: Capture schema change history Topic 2: Use Linode Object Storage for CockroachDB bulk ops Topic 3: Configure DBeaver for CockroachDB Serverless Topic 4: Configure DBeaver for multiple databases Topic 5: Configure DBeaver CockroachDB connection with pgpass Topic 1: Capture Schema Change History There was a question in our community Slack on capturing schema changes from a cluster. CockroachDB has a system.eventlog table that can be inspected for audit events like schema changes, cluster configuration changes, user and role changes, etc. This table is a running record of these events and by default, it retains 90 days of events controlled by the "server.eventlog.ttl" property. This is a notable event table and not a replacement for a schema change tool, which typically persists in schema change history on a permanent basis. Here's a sample output from the table:

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Blockchain Case Using Kubernetes

Aggregated on: 2022-09-01 17:53:04

As an illustration of how Kubernetes is being used, I propose to consider one of our cases. We are going to talk about the application that was developed for the cryptocurrency market. Yet, the technologies used for this app are utilitarian and can be used for other projects as well. In other words, a tech task is a very general solution and mainly adjusted specifically to the Kubernetes and can be used in other industries as well. Technologies That We Used The project started as a start-up and had a limited budget. The client paid attention that we will have regular demos for investors where we should regularly show progress in developing new features. Thus, we decided to use such technologies as:

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Protect the Pipe! Secure CI/CD Pipelines With a Policy-Based Approach

Aggregated on: 2022-09-01 15:08:04

In the last few years, there has been a sharp rise in software supply chain attacks, where malicious actors target software build and deployment environments to infiltrate production systems. There are three reasons that have contributed to this increase:   Improved security for production systems has forced attackers to look for other avenues. The improvements may be due to the increase in cloud and managed services and general security awareness and availability of tools.   With the adoption of programmable infrastructure and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), build, and delivery systems now have access to production systems. This means a compromise in the build system can be used to access production systems and, in the case of a software vendor, access to customer environments. Applications are increasingly composed of hundreds of OSS and commercial components. This increases the application exposure and presents several ways to add malicious code to an application. All of these factors contributed to attackers shifting focus to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) systems as an easier target to infiltrate multiple production systems. Therefore, it is essential that organizations give equal consideration to securing our CI/CD pipelines, just as they do their production workloads. 

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Design Thinking in Software Testing

Aggregated on: 2022-09-01 13:23:04

According to Adobe, design-led companies reported 50% more loyal customers and 41% greater market share when the design is implemented in a top-priority and high-quality manner.  It plays a multi-level role in helping not only to guide product development but also in establishing a connection with the customer by providing a well-differentiated experience. Principles of Design Thinking

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Open Source Bait and Switch

Aggregated on: 2022-08-31 21:08:03

I was reading this article and wanted to post a comment but I felt this warrants a response article. First, if you don’t know me I've written a ton of Open Source code. Whole platform and then some. I think the general view is expressed in that article and a lot of the fluff I see online is over simplistic and dangerous. We Need To Get Paid Who will pay your salary?

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Implement Testcontainers GCloud Module With Spring Boot for Writing Integration Tests

Aggregated on: 2022-08-31 16:08:03

Testcontainers is a library that is helpful with writing reliable integration tests in a module-specific (Databases, Kafka, Redis) Docker container. Once the execution of tests is over, the containers are destroyed completely. If your application is using Google Cloud components like Spanner, Firestore, etc. to write efficient integration tests, Testcontainers offers a GCloud module for Google Cloud Platform’s Cloud SDK.

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.NET Framework Vs .NET Core: A Complete Quick Comparison

Aggregated on: 2022-08-31 16:08:03

There is an increasing demand for skilled .NET developers in this technology. Obviously, .NET technology refers to both .NET Framework and .NET Core. With the increasing demand for .NET development services, the .NET development company is offering quality web development projects. Therefore, it’s the right time to invest in these two languages after having sufficient knowledge.  As we know, both .NET Framework and .NET Core have made their impression on web development services. However, the debate is still on which is better in the long run. But you know what, this is a never-ending debate and will not lead you to a conclusion. But on the other hand, we know that .NET Core is coming up with new features and functionalities to simplify the development and testing of desktop, web, cloud, and mobile applications.

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Testing Multi Experience Apps Using Real Device Cloud

Aggregated on: 2022-08-31 14:38:03

Multi-experience (MX) applications are shaping the future of web and mobile applications by making them more immersive and interactive. With multi-experience applications, users can interact with a brand or business in a variety of ways, using a variety of devices and platforms.   Super-apps like WeChat and Paytm are growing in popularity because of the range of their offerings and the platform-agnostic multi-experience they provide to users. Multi-experience development platforms (MXDP) centralize all the activities involved in putting together a multi-experience application and are becoming increasingly popular.  

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How to Paraphrase Text in Python Using NLP Libraries

Aggregated on: 2022-08-31 13:38:03

Python is a robust object-oriented programming (OOP) language that finds a lot of use in the field of artificial intelligence. It is so useful that mega tech companies like Google have made libraries such as Tensorflow to help people to leverage powerful machine learning algorithms and models for various purposes. People have made ‘sign language’ interpreters, Motorcyclist helmet detectors, and item identifiers using Python and its free libraries.

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Cloud Data: FinOps Is the Crucial Ops

Aggregated on: 2022-08-31 12:08:03

This article rounds off the series of posts to better understand how the pitfalls around the collection, maintenance, and storage of your cloud data can mean the difference between failure and success within your cloud strategy.  The concepts in this series stem from brainstorming with my good friend Roel Hodzelmans and are additionally inspired by reactions from the audience to a talk given previously in Dublin, Ireland. The first article in this series, "Cloud Data: Understanding 3 Common Pitfalls," provided an introduction to cloud and data and what that means in a cloud-native architecture beyond just storage. The second article in this series, "Cloud Data: Observability Is the Forgotten Data," discussed the forgotten data that is often overlooked when planning for cloud-native solutions. This third and final article explores a new operations role that is going to be the most crucial one in your organization.

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Error Handling in Spring for GraphQL

Aggregated on: 2022-08-31 03:38:03

The Problem Recently, I wrote some GraphQL endpoints and got a bit blocked when I came to the error handling mechanism. Usually, when writing REST endpoints, you either go for a particular @ExceptionHandler for your controller or you go for the @ControllerAdvice to handle exceptions globally for multiple controllers. Apparently, that is not the case for GraphQL. There is a completely different approach for handling errors. First, the most important thing that I should mention is that I am using:

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Infra: A Promising Way To Manage Kubernetes Users

Aggregated on: 2022-08-31 02:38:03

Kubernetes is not a secure platform. Its implementation in production requires the integration of several components to ensure its security and good operation by both administrators and users. The management of cluster access is obviously an important point in the adoption of the platform. Several tools exist today to manage this critical security aspect. Infra is a new player in this field and deserves some attention.

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Greater App Security with Face Verification

Aggregated on: 2022-08-31 02:38:03

Identity verification is among the primary contributors to mobile app security. Considering that face data is unique for each person, it has been utilized to develop a major branch of identity verification: face recognition. Face recognition has been widely applied in services we use every day, such as unlocking a mobile device, face-scan payment, access control, and more. Undoubtedly, face recognition delivers a streamlined verification process for the mentioned services. However, that is not to say that this kind of security is completely safe and secure. Face recognition can only detect faces, and is unable to tell whether they belong to a real person, making face recognition vulnerable to presentation attacks (PAs), including the print attack, replay attack, and mask attack.

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API Analytics Across the Developer Journey

Aggregated on: 2022-08-30 20:53:03

Every API product manager wants as many developers as possible adopting and using their APIs. They want them to get to Hello World quickly and have a great developer experience (DX) along the way. Of course, the bigger goal is to be able to tie API success into the larger objectives of the company. For many, despite the best intentions, their metrics are too simplistic, narrow, and based on outdated models of engagement. With complete API analytics, you can guide API users throughout the entire journey—from signup and education to Hello World and app deployment. Often, it’s not enough for someone to get started with your API. Instead, you want them to make complete use of it. And raw usage of the API does not tell the full story of your collective customer experience. You can use analytics to carefully plan the design of every API, improve the experience for every developer, and maximize the outcomes for your product.

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Java String intern(): Interesting Q and A

Aggregated on: 2022-08-30 19:53:03

intern() is an interesting function in the java.lang.String object. The intern() function eliminates duplicate string objects from the application and has the potential to reduce the overall memory consumption of your application. In this post, let’s learn more about this intern() function. 1. How Does the String intern() Function Work? In Java heap memory, a pool of string objects is maintained. When you invoke an intern() function on a string object, JVM will check whether this string object already exists in the pool. If it exists, then that same object is returned back to the invoker. If the string object doesn’t exist, then this string object is added to the pool, and the newly added string object is returned to the invoker. 

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