"Bulletproofing" is a road map for how to integrate error prevention and detection into the development process to ensure that Web applications are robust, scalable, efficient and reliable. It explores defensive programming techniques and explains the benefits of, and how to, implement coding standards for various programming languages including HTML, CSS, Java, and JavaScript. The authors also show how to perform unit testing on each component as they are developed along with ways to set up a staging area for deployment and a deployment infrastructure. "Bulletproofing" details ways to avoid errors as databases, SQL, XML, Web services, SOAP, EJB components, JSP and other technologies are implemented into Web applications.

Bulletproofing Web Applications

Computers & Technology

Dunlop, Cynthia

Kolawa, Adam

Hicken, Wendell

Web Development & Design

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Discover critical considerations and best practices for improving database performance based on what has worked, and failed, across thousands of teams and use cases in the field. This open access book provides practical guidance for understanding the database-related opportunities, trade-offs, and traps you might encounter while trying to optimize data-intensive applications for high throughput and low latency. Whether you are building a new system from the ground up or trying to optimize an existing use case for increased demand, this book covers the essentials. The book begins with a look at the many factors impacting database performance at the extreme scale that today’s game changing applications face―or at least hope to achieve. You’ll gain insight into the performance impact of both technical and business requirements, and how those should influence your decisions around database infrastructure and topology. The authors share an inside perspective on often-overlooked engineering details that could be constraining―or helping―your team’s database performance. The book also covers benchmarking and monitoring practices by which to measure and validate the outcomes from the decisions that you make.\nThe ultimate goal of the book is to help you discover new ways to optimize database performance for your team’s specific use cases, requirements, and expectations. 
What You Will Learn 
Understand often overlooked factors that impact database performance at scale Recognize data-related performance and scalability challenges associated with your project Select a database architecture that’s suited to your workloads, use cases, and requirements Avoid common mistakes that could impede your long-term agility and growth Jumpstart teamwide adoption of best practices for optimizing database performance at scale 
Who This Book Is For Individuals and teams looking to optimize distributed database performance for an existing project or to begin a new performance-sensitive project with a solid and scalable foundation. This will likely include software architects, database architects, and senior software engineers who are either experiencing or anticipating pain related to database latency and/or throughput.

Database Performance at Scale: A Practical Guide

Mendes, Felipe Cardeneti

Sarna, Piotr

Emelyanov, Pavel

Operating Systems

Apress

This book is written for senior development managers and business executives who need to achieve the optimal balance between speed and quality with software applications that are the primary interface with customers... and ultimately revenue. It provides a business perspective on how to accelerate the SDLC and release with confidence. Today’s DevOps and “Continuous Everything” initiatives require the ability to assess the risks associated with a release candidate—instantly and continuously. Continuous Testing provides an automated, unobtrusive way to obtain immediate feedback on the business risks associated with a software release candidate. It guides development teams to meet business expectations and helps managers make informed trade-off decisions in order to optimize the business value of a release candidate. Continuous Testing is NOT simply more test automation. Given the business expectations at each stage of the SDLC, Continuous Testing delivers a quantitative assessment of risk as well as actionable tasks that help mitigate risks before they progress to the next stage of the SDLC. The goal is to eliminate meaningless activities and produce value-added tasks that drive the development organization towards a successful release—safeguarding the integrity of the user experience while protecting the business from the potential impacts of application shortcomings. From Alan Zeichick, SD Times "This book nails the target: It’s all about risk. That’s what insurance is all about, that’s what attorneys are all about, that’s the sort of decision that every business and technology manager makes all day, every day. We have to live with risk and make tradeoffs. More testing? At some point, indeed, we have to cut it off. It’s difficult if not impossible to assess the business risk of software quality. Yes, software quality is expensive. The higher the quality, the more time it takes to deliver software, and the greater the resources you must spend on software quality. And yes, it is expensive to have software failures—you might lose money, lose customers, suffer lawsuits, damage your brand, end up on the front page of The Wall Street Journal. Not good... Ariola and Dunlop make a good point in their short book: We mustn’t accept that the trend toward accelerating the development process will magically improve software quality; indeed, we should expect the opposite. And if we are going to mitigate risk in today’s environment, we need to reengineer the software development process in a way that considers business risk to be one of the metrics, along with the other traditional results of our automated testing and Continuous Integration systems."

Continuous Testing

Ariola, Wayne

Programming

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Writing for Developers: Blogs that get read

Computer Science

Manning

Even with the most extreme automation, the “test everything” approach is not feasible—or necessary. If you rethink your approach to testing, you can get a thorough assessment of a release candidate’s business risk with much less testing than you’re probably performing today. Enterprise Continuous Testing: Transforming Testing for Agile and DevOps introduces a Continuous Testing strategy that helps enterprises accelerate and prioritize testing to meet the needs of fast-paced Agile and DevOps initiatives. Software testing has traditionally been the enemy of speed and innovation—a slow, costly process that delays releases while delivering questionable business value. This new strategy helps you test smarter, so testing provides rapid insight into what matters most to the business. Target Audience This book is written for senior quality managers and business executives who need to achieve the optimal balance between speed and quality when delivering the software that drives the modern business. It provides a roadmap for how to accelerate delivery with high confidence and low business risk. In summary: If you want to realign your Global 2000 organization’s quality process with the unrelenting drive towards accelerated delivery speed and “Continuous Everything,” then you’re in the right place. From Grant Borrie, Technical Director of TTC Global "Yet again, Wolfgang Platz provides measured and insightful commentary on the ever-changing software testing landscape. Wolfgang’s endless passion and enthusiasm matched with obvious backing of significant research makes this compelling and enjoyable reading. Software testing is in safe hands and takes another leap forward." From Raj Kanuparthi, Founder and CEO, Narwal “Wolfgang knows what’s required to make Continuous Testing a reality in complex environments. I’ve led numerous enterprise testing transformations based on these core strategies, and can personally attest to their effectiveness. This is a ‘must-read’ for all IT leaders and quality professionals.”

Enterprise Continuous Testing: Transforming Testing for Agile and DevOps

Platz, Wolfgang

Software

Independently published

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