The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Therefore, the canary framework is designed to monitor operational and customer KPI metrics to detect persistent deviations and terminate the canary experiment if necessary. Migrating Persistent Stores Stateful APIs pose unique challenges that require different strategies.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 13, 2021

This article will take an in-depth look at the various tools and strategies that help with mobile application testing. By using simple, efficient and automated mobile application testing tools like Testsigma , companies can avoid embarrassing themselves and prevent app glitches significantly.

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. I'm offering an overview of my perspective on the field, which I hope is a unique and interesting take on it, in order to provide context for the work at hand: devising a winning technology strategy for your business.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Percona Backup for MongoDB is a custom-built backup utility designed to cater to the needs of users who don’t want to pay for proprietary software but require a fully supported community backup tool capable of performing cluster-wide consistent backups in MongoDB. MongoDB backup methods include full, incremental, and continuous backups.

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Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Compatibility Open source databases are designed with interoperability at their core, adhering to industry standards and offering support for a wide range of data import and export formats. Strategy: Choosing your path Having a strategy for your migration will make the move to open source go that much smoother.

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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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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. This separation aims to streamline transaction write logging, improving efficiency and consistency. What is a Dedicated Log Volume (DLV)? and later v13 versions, 14.7

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Percona

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Access control: Tailor access permissions for child roles based on their inheritance, ensuring a granular and secure access control strategy. Documentation: Document your role hierarchy in reverse for reference, compliance, and auditing purposes.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2020

by Damir Svrtan and Sergii Makagon As the production of Netflix Originals grows each year, so does our need to build apps that enable efficiency throughout the entire creative process. The idea of Hexagonal Architecture is to put inputs and outputs at the edges of our design. whether it be Relational or Documents.

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Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

If you don’t have well-designed and small columns for this composite primary key, it could enlarge all of your secondary indexes. Various partition types, like RANGE, LIST, HASH, and KEY, are used for specific needs, from range-based data to custom criteria, to ensure efficient data handling and the optimization of queries.

Strategy 40

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

They were designed to provide a way to execute JavaScript code in the background, separate from the main execution thread of a web page, in order to improve performance and responsiveness. Web Workers are designed to perform tasks that do not require direct access to the UI, such as data processing, image manipulation, or calculations.

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Efficiency Code Strategy Network 107

Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

The case for accessibility is this; we as stakeholders, managers, teams, designers and developers need to do better in not only practicing accessibility but advocating for it as well. without the need for special adaptation or specialized design.”. without the need for special adaptation or specialized design.”.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

For example, when we design a new version of VMAF, we need to effectively roll it out throughout the entire Netflix catalog of movies and TV shows. This article explains how we designed microservices and workflows on top of the Cosmos platform to bolster such video quality innovations.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In Part 1 , we discussed various strategies and techniques for handling images, video, and audio in a Gatsby project. This time, in Part 2, we are covering a different type of media we commonly encounter: documents. Meet Smashing Email Newsletter with useful tips on front-end, design & UX. Your (smashing) email Once a week.

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Media Website Availability Design 88

Percona

JULY 26, 2023

MongoDB is a non-relational document database that provides support for JSON-like storage. To make this process work more efficiently and ensure a smooth failover, it is important to have the same hardware configuration on all the nodes of the replica set. MongoDB is popular with developers as it is easy to get started with.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

SUS101: Sustainability innovation in AWS Global Infrastructure AWS is determined to make the cloud the cleanest and most energy-efficient way to run customers’ infrastructure and business. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

To achieve this in a secure and efficient manner, a key requirement for any database monitoring and management software is to have robust access management features. As a first task, Vanessa plans an access control roll-out strategy. Please check the labels for access control page on the product documentation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The biggest challenge was aligning on this strategy across the organization. This gives us access to Netflix’s Java ecosystem, while also giving us the robust language features such as coroutines for efficient parallel fetches, and an expressive type system with null safety. This journey hasn’t been without its challenges.

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Architecture Best Practices Engineering Open Source 249

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Backup types and strategies It all begins with choosing a strategy, and that depends on factors such as the use and importance of data to your business, your recovery time objectives (RTO), and your budget. With the right backup strategy , you’ll be better able to achieve the aforementioned business continuity.

Database 85

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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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Development Best Practices Website Artificial Intelligence 59

Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2020

JSON is the most common format used by web services to exchange data, store documents, unstructured data, etc. Note: If a particular key is always present in your document, it might make sense to store it as a first class column. JSONB supports indexing the JSON data, and is very efficient at parsing and querying the JSON data.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Though the VPTCS model provided us a point of view on what a website is and what the requirements of the user are, we also wanted to determine the consequences for the stakeholders of the web project i.e. those designing, producing, developing, commercializing, or marketing the website.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 21, 2020

The document runs to 87 pages, so I’m going to cover the material across two posts. In an environment where the amount of information available to explore (and rate at which it can be generated) greatly outpaces a team’s ability to hold its collective attentional control, a number of coping strategies come into view.

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Internet Internet Strategy Energy 98

Percona

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Ensuring the security and resilience of your data hinges on having a robust backup strategy, and Percona XtraBackup (PXB), our open source backup solution for all versions of MySQL, is designed to make backups a seamless procedure without disrupting the performance of your server in a production environment. Run Percona XtraBackup 8.1

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2021

Serverless architectures help developers innovate more efficiently and effectively by removing the burden of managing underlying infrastructure. documentation. documentation. predicts that, by 2025, 50% of all global enterprises will have deployed serverless function platforms as a service (fPaaS), up from only 20% today.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

In this three-part series , we are going to go through the CSS refactor process from the beginning to the end, starting with knowledge on how to approach it and some general pros and cons of refactoring, then moving onto the refactoring strategies themselves and ending with some general best practices on CSS file size and performance.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. In Designing The Perfect Navigation , Vitaly will explore 100s of practical examples of better mega-dropdowns , hamburgers, carousels, modals and filters.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In the United States, the software development sector is thriving, with a rising need for experienced workers to design new and cutting-edge solutions. Talent: Their experienced designers and developers are dedicated to producing high-quality work. WebCodeGenie WebCodeGenie Technology Pvt.

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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. This is why the async and deferred attributes are crucial, as they ensure an efficient, seamless web browsing experience.

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Percona

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Most of the applications may not be designed and tested for handling such surprises. So unless the application is designed, developed, and tested for handling unexpected connection drops, it won’t be able to handle this. This has been discussed in the community , and the implications on the pooler are known and well documented.

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CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

So many false starts, tedious workflows, and a complete lack of efficiency really made it difficult for me to find momentum. Given that render blocking resources reside in the head of the document, this implies differing head tags on that page. Note that the PDP’s FP is almost a second slower than other pages?

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Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics 292

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And there are tools for archiving and indexing prompts for reuse, vector databases for retrieving documents that an AI can use to answer a question, and much more. Such policies would be designed to mitigate legal problems and require regulatory compliance. We’re already moving into the second (if not the third) generation of tooling.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 106

Tasktop

APRIL 29, 2020

While the software delivery process may seem linear and repeatable, in reality it’s an iterative creative process of software design with high variability, unique output and unpredictable economics. One strategy is to consolidate all your work into one stack of tools. One Stack to Rule Them All?

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Over the course of this post, we will talk about our approach to this migration, the strategies that we employed, and the tools we built to support this. You can find a lot more details about how this works in the Spinnaker canaries documentation. Background The Netflix Android app uses the falcor data model and query protocol.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 18, 2019

As software testing plays a significant role in the delivery of the final product, it is necessary to consider that the testing process must involve accurate, exhaustive test cases and firm test strategy. Efficient and apt test coverage covers all minute points & areas, that many times go neglected. Lack of Supervision.

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Testsigma

MAY 19, 2020

Before defining the scope, the requirements should be well understood and test strategy should be defined keeping the timelines in mind. A test plan is an essential document to perform disciplined and organized testing. Starting Test Automation Without a Test Design. Starting without a Test Plan. Assuming Product Won’t Evolve.

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Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Thank you to the following for their feedback on drafts of this material: Howard Hinnant (lead designer and author of move semantics), Jens Maurer, Arthur O’Dwyer, Geoffrey Romer, Bjarne Stroustrup, Andrew Sutton, Ville Voutilainen, Jonathan Wakely. Can a given type document that moving from an object always changes its state?

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