A good way to ensure that you’re building applications that last is by investing in automated testing. Without automated testing, the next person who has to work on your application will have a much tougher time knowing they could break something, or not knowing why your code does something. Automated testing will make sure your application works today and in the future, which is necessary for when you bring on new developers to work on the application.

With MarkLogic Unit Test, this process is

When developers try to build something on MarkLogic, they often ask: how do I connect to it? How do I get data into and out of it? Oftentimes, these questions aren’t even relevant to what they are building. What if there was a tool that did this work for you so you can get to building what you wanted to create in the first place?

The community-driven MarkLogic Grove project provides a toolkit full of tooling, templates, and other resources that help with building UI applications on top

Today on our stand our experts holding office hours were Jen Shorten and Ernst Kallus.

Jen is the lead architect for our partner team and has a world of experience in publishing going back to the original Wiley digital platforms. This year at Frankfurt Jen is seeing that “publishers are starting to see themselves as data and information companies.” This is a welcome change and it “means publishers are truly looking towards the future and will open up opportunities

James Wonder held his office hours on our stand today. James has seen it all, from some of the first digital distribution with AIP to creating the Citation scholarly platform that brought together cross discipline content.

James now leads MarkLogic’s worldwide customer success team and after visiting with customers at the book fair, he’s finding that “all our customers are struggling with things like delivering tailored content and understanding the context their customers.”

The Frankfurt Book Fair is getting underway! With over 7,000 exhibitors and more than 280,000 visitors expected to attend, it’s the world’s biggest stage to promote some of the big ideas shaping the world.

At the opening ceremony, Book Fair CEO Juergen Boos announced the theme of “Create Your Revolution” and speakers stressed the critical role of culture and books, including guest nation Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg who said, “reading is crucial for a society with a just social