Strategic Tech

JANUARY 9, 2024

Problem, Strategy, and Solution Spaces To gain clarity on the terminology, it’s helpful to describe the various activities involved in building a product, which can then be grouped into buckets like problem and solution space or something else. In my work, I often encounter software developers who refer to the software as the solution space.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The design of a cron job is simple, you take some system command, you pick the schedule to run it on and you are done. The important thing is that this business logic can be built in a separate repository and maintained independently from the workflow definition. workflow ?—?see Example: 0 0 * * MON /home/alice/backup.sh

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. As a result, she came back to me concerned with publishing a post on a strategy her agency had yet to adopt successfully.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

Over the past few years I have focused much of my learning and work choices around learning about the design of sociotechnical systems?—?how how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. As part of good design, we should consider the effects of changing all of these variables. E.g. Genesis, commodity.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Domain-Driven Design is an approach to designing systems, usually software, that emphasises creating a common language between domain experts and system builders. However, some concepts in DDD do not have a clear definition and are highly implicit. This definition of a domain is very fuzzy. Thank you to all involved.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Our creative team helps make this happen by designing promotional artwork that best represents each title featured on our platform. In the past, we have attempted to design A/B tests where we investigate one aspect of artwork at a time, often within one particular genre. This assumption is by definition not testable.

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Testsigma

AUGUST 28, 2019

In Testsigma we always keep up to date and we definitely can shed some light to the effective testing strategy for a microservices architecture. Want to make your Automated Testing strategy the effective one? To avoid that we should, first of all, define our goals and to create a test strategy.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

In Domain-Driven Design, a large system is decomposed into bounded contexts , which become natural boundaries in code as microservices and as teams in the organisation. The Bounded Context Design Canvas I designed this canvas based on the typical flow of strategic DDD workshops I run publicly and privately.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Deployment Strategies We are all familiar with the advantages of releasing frequently and in smaller chunks. Depending on the type of client, we need to determine the right strategy to sample consumer devices, and provide a system that can enable various client engineering teams to look for their signals.

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

While Federico definitely has good points there, there is some truth in these myths too. The open source load testing tools definitely advanced a lot in both maturity and functionality – but there are many areas where they are behind best commercial tools (and if it matters for a specific user is another subject – for some it may not).

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

Working on my PhD, I was using optimization techniques to design radiotherapy fractionation schemes to improve the results of clinical practices. My academic credentials definitely helped on the technical side. How do you, as a data scientist, fill in the pieces between product, engineering, and design?

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Tech News Gather

MAY 23, 2022

If you are wondering how mobile app development can strengthen your digital marketing efforts, here are a few reasons that will definitely convince you to invest in mobile app development for your digital growth. Incorporating mobile apps into your digital marketing strategy allows you to reach a wider audience.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2023

Annotations Sometimes people describe annotations as tags but that is a limited definition. We followed the rollover indices strategy to avoid such hotspots (as described in our blog for asset management application) in the cluster which can cause spikes in the cpu utilization and slow down the query response.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

As we expand offerings rapidly across the globe, our ideas and strategies around plans and offers are evolving as well. This re-design enabled us to reposition the SKU catalog as an extensible, scalable, and robust rule-based “self-service” platform. For example, the mobile plan launch in India and Southeast Asia was a huge success.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

If you’re among the thousands of organisations building a platform-powered digital ecosystem, you face serious organisation design challenges. Without an explicit organisation design strategy, you will over-commit resources to low priority initiatives and starve your big bets?—?the Mediocrity or market-leading? It’s your choice.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

A well-designed and practical website is a must-have in today’s digital environment for companies of all sizes, especially when you are out there hiring a web development company. Flexibility and Scalability Companies that outsource website development can adjust their strategies in response to changing needs for various projects.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Definitely read up on the strategy and reasoning behind this stack in the first article if you missed it. Meet Smashing Workshops on front-end, design & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. For us, images are most definitely part of the LCP.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 22, 2021

To provide a view of some of the unique challenges and opportunities of our domain, we’ll share some of the core strategies we’ve developed, some of the tools we’ve built as a result, and finally talk about our vision for the future of tooling on our team. Identifying impact requires deep engagement with our users.

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CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

While this strategy is effective, it’s not simple: highly dynamic sites can be difficult to extract styles from, the process needs to be automated, we have to make assumptions about what above the fold even is, it’s hard to capture edge cases, and tooling still in its relative infancy. The same waterfall occurs in Opera and Safari.).

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 18, 2021

This gets tricky at times when collaborating with different companies or communities that use different definitions. Field is most often used to designate a domain of professional specialization. To reduce undesired ambiguity in communication consider using the specific definitions. We can learn a few things from these examples.

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CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

To this end, having a solid caching strategy can make all the difference for your visitors. ?? The amount of control we’re granted makes for very intricate and powerful caching strategies. If there is a newer file available on the server, we definitely want to download it. — Harry Roberts (@csswizardry) 3 March, 2019.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

JavaScript Design Patterns. Knights of the Flexbox Table is another well-designed interactive course to help you learn the different aspects of the flexbox specification. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Design Patterns Game. Design Patterns Game is unique and is not for JavaScript beginners. CSS Flexbox.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 12, 2020

Please feel free to use it, create remixes, or simply take it as inspiration to develop your own ways of designing bounded contexts. I feel there is a lot of potential to improve how we design bounded contexts and this is just the starting point. More importantly, keep looking for better ways to design systems.

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Testsigma

MARCH 2, 2022

Use the learnings to update and improve your test strategy, plan, test cases, and automated tests. Have a rollback strategy in place to prevent or minimize damage in case of a bug leaks to production. This strategy can minimize the impact in case of bugs. Make unit testing a part of the definition of done.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

This article will list some of the use cases of AutoOptimize, discuss the design principles that help enhance efficiency, and present the high-level architecture. Other than these principles, there are some other design considerations to support and enable: Multi-tenancy with database and table prioritization.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. Core Web Vital metrics definitions. A cornerstone of our business model lies in the development of effective landing pages.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 19, 2020

But, the catch is that most of them are not following a basic guideline – the Definition of Done for a feature should also include testing and automation of the feature. Now when we talk about the definition of done, it is incomplete to say that the stories will have development only and will be tested later.

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Testsigma

APRIL 4, 2022

Let’s look at the definition of quality to see how test automation isn’t quality assurance. One of the popular definitions of Quality is that it is “value” to someone “who” matters. A similar outlook is shared by Test Automation, which is often regarded as a quality assurance activity.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

This essentially means that your website should not only be mobile-friendly but it should also have a Responsive Web Design so that your target customers can access your products (or services) with ultra-ease on their hand-held devices. How to execute an effective mobile website testing strategy. Speed and Accuracy.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. Performing steps like switching from a single-CDN setup to a multi-CDN or separating strategies for content types can make the benefits twofold!Â

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. Performing steps like switching from a single-CDN setup to a multi-CDN or separating strategies for content types can make the benefits twofold!

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Here, we first cover the basics of MySQL Triggers, and then we take a deeper dive, exploring their impact on memory usage and providing strategies to optimize MySQL server performance. However, they can also introduce performance bottlenecks, especially if poorly designed. What is a Trigger in MySQL?

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

These are both utility based definitions. As opposed to utility-based definitions, the dominant legal doctrine of discrimination focuses on a decision maker’s motivations. Three popular algorithmic definitions of fairness are anti-classification , classification parity , and calibration. Algorithmic models of fairness.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 27, 2022

Sometimes I do it better than others, but it’s definitely an invaluable skill to me and one I would encourage you to build as well. ???? This notation was designed based on the types of information arising during the meeting: An ad-hoc notation designed during a meeting Sticky-note scribing is also good practice for workshop multi-tasking.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 11, 2021

A domain service builds on the basic definition of a microservice: it’s a loosely-coupled, independently deployable element of software architecture which is owned by a single team. A common question in designing a domain is “how big should a domain be?” It’s more of an attempt to improve collaboration and design culture.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

To directly support great decision-making throughout the company, there are a number of data science teams at Netflix that partner directly with Product Managers, engineering teams, and other business units to design, execute, and learn from experiments. see the end of those relationships when members elect to cancel.

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