Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Once that base is set, you’ll learn how to use shadows to evoke depth, elevate elements, and inset them, how to layer shadows, and, of course, which CSS property to use for which use case. The spacing would need to be defined in relative units, of course, that might be a bit difficult to get right across screens. More after jump!

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Games Design Strategy Code 144

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? How good is a new typeface, and how good is it compared to a similar typeface designed in previous years? 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices.

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Performance Design Best Practices Testing 112

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 131

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

In fact, we had to look into various cases for the form design: What happens when no data is provided at all? Given that a vast majority of our readers — wonderful people like you — are using autofill, it’s worth spending time designing an experience around it. Designing The Perfect Navigation. UX, Design.

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Mobile Design Cache Code 141

KeyCDN

JULY 2, 2020

Web standards are best defined as guidelines developed by the World Wide Web Consortium W3C to promote consistency in design code which makes up a web page. Maybe the best phrase to describe web standards is a set of standardized "best practices" for building websites.

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Internet Internet Best Practices Website 56

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

At Dotcom-Monitor, we are all about monitoring solutions for tracking uptime, availability, functionality, and all-around performance of servers, websites, services, and applications. SREs want one that simply does the job that it was designed to do. Monitoring. Monitoring is one of the most important SRE principles within the role.

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Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers. Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers. In the past couple of years, it’s no secret that our design tools have exponentially evolved. How do we bridge this gap between what is designed over what is developed without the overhead of constantly doing reviews?

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL performance optimization aims to improve the efficiency of a PostgreSQL database system by adjusting configurations and implementing best practices to identify and resolve bottlenecks, improve query speed, and maximize database throughput and responsiveness. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Design The Perfect Navigation , with Vitaly Friedman. With 100s of real-life examples , guidelines and best practices that you can apply right away. This approach, however, is far from perfect as there is a delay between the page’s first render and the wildcard being available.

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Servers Website Code Best Practices 85

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

At one point we had two conflicting high availability products from different teams, who weren’t cooperating. In the early 2000s, Sun was designing it’s next generation high end server, and to avoid reliability issues that had caused problems in previous systems, adopted Six Sigma to create quality best practices.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Tim Kadlec

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

I’ve seen plenty of instances where the embedded thumbnail (that the designers and developers didn’t even know was there) weighed more than the image itself! For a long time, putting height and width attributes on your image was more or less a best practice. Unsized Media. What’s old is new and all that.

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Performance Media Best Practices Development 136

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. Sustainable Web Design. In 2016, O’Reilly published “ Designing For Sustainability ” by Tim Frick. In this book, Tim takes us on a tour of the whys and hows of sustainable design. There are some existing works we can draw on to help us here.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. This guide provides an overview of what high availability means, the components involved, how to measure high availability, and how to achieve it. How does high availability work?

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Finally, I cover missing standard features related to NULL handling in T-SQL and suggest alternatives that are available in T-SQL. The designers of SQL chose not to get into the distinction of applicable versus inapplicable missing values, and provided us with the NULL as a marker for any kind of missing value.

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Best Practices C++ Database Code 117

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 82

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Certifications, typically, are proof of the enhanced prowess in the stream for which the course has been taken. Certifications and Courses help validate as well as enhance our technical capability in a specific vertical. A lot of these tools also need a fair amount of time to be invested in learning courses and doing certifications.

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Website Testing Programming Automotive 53

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces , Steven Hoober’s brand-new guide on designing for mobile with proven, universal, human-centric guidelines. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. More after jump! Jump to table of contents ?.

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Cache Games Performance Website 92

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2023

This model is based on deep collaboration with hundreds of customers, all the best practices we could find, and a philosophy of transparency and fairness. Of course, “all access” doesn’t mean that everything is turned on all the time. In designing DPS, we’ve created pricing that is transparent and fair.

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Cloud Best Practices Traffic Infrastructure 194

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

Designing For Micro-Moments. Designing For Micro-Moments. A couple of years ago, Google announced a new mobile-first initiative it wanted web designers and marketers to pick up on. In Myriam Jessier’s " Things Designers Should Know About SEO In 2018 ", she sums up Google’s four micro-moments: “I want to know.”. “I

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Design Google Website Small Business 63

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Designing With Code: A Modern Approach To Design. The Rise Of Design Thinking As A Problem Solving Strategy. I’m talking about Chakra UI, of course. But for me, I don’t have design sense. A little bit, but I’m not a designer by any means. Drew: How easy is it to customize a design? Mike on Twitter.

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Website Design Open Source Software 63

Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

It is not that most web design agencies are ignorant of other marketing approaches or that any of them are inherently bad. On the contrary, in the second part of his two-part series on getting web design clients , Stephen Roe breaks down the opportunities of these approaches. However, in practice, the results can be underwhelming.

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Sutter's Mill

MAY 28, 2012

Here’s what’s different about these talks: Brand new: This material goes beyond what I’ve written and taught about before in my Effective Concurrency articles and courses. Which are most interesting, what technologies are available now, and what’s being considered for near-term standardization? This will be a broad and deep dive.

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C++ Hardware Best Practices Tuning 40

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The subject line said: “Success Story: Major Issue in single AWS Frankfurt Availability Zone!” The problem started at 1:24PM PDT, with the services starting to become available again about 3 hours later. As a general best practice, Synthetic Tests are great to validate your core use cases are always working as expected.

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AWS Traffic Architecture Azure 183

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Of course, we’ll discuss possible resolutions to these bugs as well. The “Changes” panel should be already available by default and next to the “Computed” tab. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. CSS is designed to not lose content, to not cause harm. General Debugging Tips. More after jump!

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Design Availability Mobile Website 145

Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

Component-based design, enabled and enforced by modern JavaScript frameworks, does not only provide great developer experiences and project ergonomics when used in a smart way, but it can also offer advantages for accessibility. With best practices and guidelines on accessibility, assistive technology and inclusive design patterns.

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Strategy Virtualization Government Education 141

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Created by Jon Yablonski, this lovely website explains 21 psychological principles that designers can consider to create more human-centered products and experiences. The right tools at the right time, help streamline the design process. User experience research is a crucial component of the human-centered design process.

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Airlines Mobile Design Strategy 130

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

In my conversations with designers and developers who don’t optimize, a few of the same myths are constantly brought up. High performance and beautiful design are mutually exclusive. Of course, performance is not all that matters. (If without any noticeable difference in your design. Performance matters.

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Performance Energy Google Internet 40

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Hot backups vs. cold backups: A hot backup — used to minimize downtime and ensure data availability for critical applications — allows you to create a copy of a database while the system is still actively serving user requests and processing transactions. In a cold backup, the database is taken offline.

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Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 86

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A Dedicated Log Volume (DLV) is a specialized storage volume designed to house database transaction logs separately from the volume containing the database tables. Thus, using Dedicated Log Volumes (DLVs), though new in AWS RDS, has been one of the recommended best practices and is a welcome setup improvement for your RDS instance.

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AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 94

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Feature Overview Reproducibility Polynote promotes notebook reproducibility by design. By taking a cell’s position in the notebook into account when executing it, Polynote helps prevent bad practices that make notebooks difficult to re-run from the top. A deleted cell’s variables are no longer available.

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Open Source Code Website Design 233

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

How To Build An Ethical User Research Practice At Any Organization. Ethics are an important part of human-computer interaction because they keep people at the heart of the design process. Unethical practices at companies lead to the creation of technology that we all use but often neglect the influence of those intended to serve.

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Code Design Education Government 138

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. We’ll develop the card component in isolation and use the agreed standards and best practices. More after jump!

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Strategy Testing Best Practices Code 134

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Whether you’re just starting out with Figma or have been using it for a good while now, this post will give you just enough pointers to make your design process faster and smoother. design tokens. design systems. responsive design and testing. responsive design and testing. Table of Contents. accessibility.

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Google Design Code Mobile 145

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Our goal with this post is to equip you with a comprehensive understanding of the steps, best practices, and pros and cons to ensure a smooth — and successful — transition to an open source database environment. Does anyone on my team require further training before we start?

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Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 90

SQL Performance

AUGUST 12, 2020

As for the common part of the term, it probably has to do with one of the design advantages of CTEs over derived tables. Of course, I’ll demonstrate this design aspect in this article. Of course, I’ll demonstrate this design aspect in this article. In other words, the CTE name is common to the outer query.

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C++ Code Design Database 140

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

MySQL, as well as other RDBMS, are designed to work respecting the model and cannot scale in any way by fragmenting and distributing a schema, so what can be done to scale? This, of course, is unless I can organize my products by country as well, which is a bit unusual nowadays but not impossible.

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Traffic Scalability Database Servers 122

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Feature Overview Reproducibility Polynote promotes notebook reproducibility by design. By taking a cell’s position in the notebook into account when executing it, Polynote helps prevent bad practices that make notebooks difficult to re-run from the top. A deleted cell’s variables are no longer available.

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Open Source Code Website Design 107