📌 1. Introduction & Overview 🔍 What is Schema Validation? Schema Validation is the process of ensuring that data adheres to a predefined structure or format—known as a schema. This validation helps to ensure data consistency, prevent malformed data from propagating through systems, and safeguard against potential security vulnerabilities due to untrusted inputs. In the … Read more
1. Introduction & Overview What is Data Anomaly Detection? Data Anomaly Detection refers to the process of identifying data points, events, or observations that deviate significantly from the expected pattern in datasets. These anomalies often signal critical issues such as: In DevSecOps, anomaly detection is used for proactive monitoring and mitigation across development, security, and … Read more
📌 Introduction & Overview What is Great Expectations? Great Expectations (GE) is an open-source Python-based data validation, documentation, and profiling framework. It helps teams define, test, and document expectations about data as it flows through pipelines, ensuring that data quality issues are detected early and automatically History or Background Why is it Relevant in DevSecOps? … Read more
1. Introduction & Overview What is Data Quality Testing? Data Quality Testing is the process of systematically validating, verifying, and monitoring data to ensure it is accurate, complete, consistent, timely, and reliable throughout its lifecycle. In modern systems, especially those relying on data pipelines, data lakes, or ML models, the quality of data directly influences … Read more
1. Introduction & Overview What is Integration Testing? Integration Testing is a level of software testing where individual units or components are combined and tested as a group to expose faults in the interactions between them. It validates that multiple components work together correctly after being integrated. History and Background Why Is It Relevant in … Read more
1. Introduction & Overview 🔍 What is Unit Testing? Unit Testing is a software testing method where individual units or components of a program are tested in isolation from the rest of the system. A unit is typically the smallest testable part of an application, such as a function or method. The goal of unit … Read more
1. Introduction & Overview What is Apache NiFi? Apache NiFi is a powerful, scalable, and reliable open-source data integration platform designed to automate the flow of data between systems. Originally developed by the NSA and later donated to the Apache Software Foundation, NiFi provides a user-friendly web-based interface to design data flows in real time, … Read more
📘 Introduction & Overview What is Kafka? Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform designed for high-throughput, fault-tolerant, real-time data ingestion and processing. Kafka facilitates communication between producers (sources of data) and consumers (applications that process data) via a publish-subscribe model. Background & History Relevance in DevSecOps Kafka plays a significant role in: Kafka … Read more
1. Introduction & Overview In modern DevSecOps environments, speed, reliability, and security are essential throughout the application development and delivery lifecycle. One of the architectural patterns that supports these objectives is Message Queuing. It enables asynchronous communication, decoupling of services, and resilience, which are critical for secure and scalable CI/CD pipelines. 2. What is Message … Read more
1. Introduction & Overview What is Real-Time Data? Real-time data refers to information that is delivered immediately after collection with minimal latency. It enables systems to respond instantly to changes, making it especially crucial for monitoring, alerting, and automation in DevSecOps environments. History or Background The need for real-time data emerged from industries like finance, … Read more