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A very small PDF for testing

For testing, I often find myself prioritizing having small data sets because I find they are easier to comprehend. Also, the small size helps emphasize what is being tested when data isn’t filled with many irrelevant data points.

Today I needed a PDF for testing. Following the same principles, I sought out “the smallest (valid) PDF” and ended up on StackOverflow.

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MongoDB profiling

When running MongoDB in Docker, diagnostics logs are sent to STDOUT by default. Since MongoDB version 4.4 these logs have been in a structured JSON format, which makes it a little cumbersome to use the profiling tool in mtools.

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