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Python Environment Variables

As a modern application, yours always deals with credentials, secrets, and configurations to connect to other services like an authentication service, database, cloud services, microservices, etc. Keeping your username, password, and other login information in the source code of your application is not a good idea because they could be exposed if you share or publish the programme. Before sharing the code, you must delete or remark the credentials, which requires more work from you.

AIOps Observability: Going Beyond Traditional APM

AIOps is an emerging technology that applies machine learning and analytics techniques to IT operations. AIOps enables IT teams to leverage advanced algorithms to identify performance issues, predict outages, and optimize system performance. Nodesource sees significant advantages for developers and teams to increase software quality by leveraging AIOPS.

Top 10 Git Commands Every Developer Should Know

Software developers tend to work in packs. We pool our creativity (and our code) to build software and our strength in numbers helps reduce the risk of errors. The more people who check code and scan for bugs, the cleaner our final product will be. However, this places a premium on effective communication. We will end up accessing, reading, writing and changing the same files over and over again, and it’s vital we keep duplication of work to a minimum.

The Next Frontier for Mission-Critical Applications (Hint: It's Not Traditional COTS)

To be good stewards of taxpayer dollars, state and local governments conduct market research and perform due diligence before purchasing a software solution. Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products are often positioned as offering the best price tag and the fastest deployment. However, the promise of a speedy installation often goes unmet.

Monitoring APIs with Prometheus

Have you ever wanted a quick and easy way to monitor your Docker environment? Do you want to have an API monitor with minimal configuration? Well it looks like there has never been a better time to monitor your API as there are currently a plethora of awesome tools out there to help us with monitoring, such as Prometheus and Grafana.

Creating a Seamless Access Experience With the Digital Double

Economics in the digital world has evolved in parallel with those of the physical world — moving from a focus on products to services and, now, experiences. Joseph Pine and James Gilmore first introduced the concept in their book, “The Experience Economy.” There they observed that “getting personal with customers is the DNA of the Experience Economy.”

How to use JSON in Golang?

JSON is among the most popular data exchange formats, while Go is mainly used for software development. In Go, the encoding/json package provides built-in support for encoding and decoding JSON data. With this package, Go programs can easily read and write JSON data to communicate with external systems, such as web services or databases, or to exchange data between different components of the same program.