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Improving the Documentation vs. Improving the UI

Ideally, conduct usability studies on both the user interface and the documentation to help you define and prioritize problems with both. The data you gather will help you to measure the benefits in terms of business metrics for both the UI and the documentation.

Janusgraph & Google: Accelerating IoT, Finserv, & Supply Chains

Accelerating IoT, Finserv, and Supply Chains with JanusGraph and Cloud Bigtable

Centralized Configuration Management – Part 1 – Storing and Controlling the Data

Our product suite (all .NET based) consists of a small but growing number of related applications with a lot of configuration data stored in app/web.config files with multiple environmental transforms. Much of the configuration is repeated across multiple projects in each environment (e.g. connection strings, email servers, etc.) so centralization of this data would be of great help. Currently, making even simple changes to any of these keys requires sifting through a large number of config files and transforms to make changes which is tedious, error prone, and difficult to test effectively.