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Dockerising a MongoDB Microservice in Kotlin/Maven/Spring Boot
As part of my training, I'm working on creating a smaller user microservice for a fake property website. After crafting the basic controller/service/repository and the testing alongside it, we were tasked with dockerising both the application and the...
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Today I announced my first official job as a developer after accepting a position as Junior Software Engineer with Novatec GmbH. I see this job as a long time coming, and the culmination of years of interest in technology and coding, but the truth is...
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Follow Me on Twitter @AnnaJMcDougall One of the really cool things I'm discovering about NodeJS is that it allows us to interact more directly with computers, and enables the production of tools using the CLI (Command Line Interface: you may know it ...
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Follow Me on Twitter @AnnaJMcDougall It's a new year, and I am thrilled to finally be dipping my toes into the waters of back-end development as my class begins to explore NodeJS. Switching mindset from front-end to back-end can be a difficult task, ...
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Ten Tips for How YOU Can Make Your Workplace Friendlier for Women
Friends, let's talk. It has been a hard year for everyone, and something that happens in hard years is that we have less patience for little annoyances because all our energy is spent keeping... /gestures at everything/ at bay. So I've been seeing ...
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What is a Variable? | JS in <3
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