(Jason Brimhall) There is plenty of legislation and regulation in place these days that strongly suggest the encryption of data within a database.
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Node.js Performance Tuning and Testing
(Lou Bichard) We know Node.js for its lightning-fast performance. Yet, as with any language, you can write Node.js code that performs worse for your users than you’d like.
Auto Start the SQL Server Agent Service
(Hannes du Preez) You can ensure that your SQl Server Agent always restarts when the SQL Server restarts by using sp_Configure and xp_cmdshell, as shown underneath:
PowerShell to Simulate Load
(Grant Fritchey) Gathering metrics is quite difficult if there are no queries. So, if you’re working in non-production environments, but you still want to see some sort of load on the server, how can you do it?
A Case Study: Measuring the Impact of Db2 for z/OS Buffer Pool Changes
(Robert Catterall) Not long ago, a Db2 for z/OS administrator contacted me with a request. His team had made some changes to the buffer pool configuration in their production Db2 environment (the overall size of the buffer pool configuration was increased to reduce read I/O activity, and greater use
Publishing A Blazor Component To Nuget Gallery
(Ankit Sharma) In this article, we will learn how to publish a reusable Blazor component to nuget gallery. We will use Visual Studio 2017 to build and create the nuget package.
Visual Studio Toolbox: UX Design and Code Generation for Angular Apps
(Robert Green) In this episode, I am joined by Jason Beres of Infragistics, who walks us through indigo.design, a platform for the visual design, UX prototyping and code generation of Angular apps.
Lazy Loading in Entity Framework Core
(Peter Vogel) Microsoft has emphasized that, while LINQ code is “copy and paste” compatible from Entity Framework 6 to Entity Framework Core, you should do a lot of testing to make sure that any code you copy behaves the same way in its new environment as it did in the old (you really get the impres
Force Download with JavaScript
(David Walsh) Force download scripts have been an important part of internet usability for a long time. I can attest to that by the number of times I’ve implemented this feature on the server side and the popularity of my PHP Force Download post, even to this day.
If You Trust Your Developers To Deploy Code, You Should Trust Your Developers To Toggle Feature Flags
(Ben Nadel) At InVision, we’ve been using LaunchDarkly as our Feature-Flags-as-a-Service (?FFaaS?) provider for several years now and it’s completely changed the way that we think about our application development and deployment work-flow.