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For years, I’ve used Apache NiFi as a data orchestration tool. Based on NiFi’s built-in scheduler, we pull data from upstream sources, send it to Progress MarkLogic, and trigger MarkLogic to take certain actions on that data. We also use NiFi to ask MarkLogic for information that is ready to process and take action based […]

A little-used Progress MarkLogic feature (from what I’ve seen) is the ability to change a document’s quality. Lowering this value will make it drop in search results, while increasing it will make it more prominent. For one client, we’re allowing subject matter experts to lower the quality of documents that aren’t very helpful. They get […]

We can use the marklogic-unit-test framework to test custom APIs hosted in Progress MarkLogic. Doing so is more of an integration test than a unit test, allowing us to ensure that HTTP inputs are correctly mapped to function parameters and that the API call works all the way through. So why don’t we only do this? A […]

We recently came across a neat little gotcha that I thought was worth sharing. I’ve written before about how JSON Nodes and JS objects look the same but act differently in Progress MarkLogic; this is similar but I’m looking at null and the empty Sequence. Let’s create a really simple document to play with: ‘use strict’; declareUpdate(); […]