Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. When a company’s digital representation lacks a dedicated UX/UI design team, it can be hard to produce something that stands out from the crowd. That happens when your app/website/system is efficient. Nataliya Sambir.

Design 113

Design Website Efficiency Games 113

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Process Improvements (50%) The allocation for process improvements is devoted to automation and continuous improvement SREs help to ensure that systems are scalable, reliable, and efficient. A few avenues for elevating CI/CD pipelines are: Enhancing the extent of automated test coverage during the testing phase.

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Engineering DevOps Innovation Strategy 232

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. Encoding is not a one-time process?—?large We have one file?—?the

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Media Storage Processing Cache 214

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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Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Responsive design is an approach to design websites such that it responds well on all screen sizes, platforms, and orientations. This approach eliminates the need to design a new set of code for each new device. But the question is, how to perform such exhaustive testing? Parallel automated testing for large test suites.

Design 88

Design Testing Website Testing Tools 88

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

As organizations develop more applications and microservices, they are discovering they also need to run more performance tests in the same amount of time or less to meet service-level objectives (SLOs) that fulfill service-level agreements (SLAs). How can organizations address this process bottleneck and run more tests in less time?

Engineering 205

Engineering Testing Performance Performance Testing 205

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Many consider it an effective solution for improving efficiency and overall satisfaction for developers across a variety of organizations and industries. A platform encompasses a set of tools, services, and infrastructure that enables developers to build, test, and deploy software applications.

Engineering 217

Engineering DevOps Software Engineering Scalability 217

Scalegrid

MARCH 8, 2024

Executing PITR requires restoring from the full backup and then applying binary log events in sequence up to the desired point in time, with advanced techniques and third-party tools available to optimize large dataset handling and automate the recovery process. Use the ‘–log-bin’ option to designate a base name for the binary log files.

Database 162

Database Strategy Servers Best Practices 162

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2019

There are 2 major challenges to succeed in our mission: We want to democratize the platform and create a contribution model: with a developer and production deployment experience that is designed for data scientists and friendly to the stacks they use. B) Efficient use of memory We should optimize for sparse linear algebra.

Engineering 174

Engineering Design Innovation Java 174

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. Using AI for Enhanced Cloud Operations The integration of AI in cloud computing is enhancing operational efficiency in several ways.

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Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It’s much better to build your process around quality checks than retrofit these checks into the existent process. NIST did classic research to show that catching bugs at the beginning of the development process could be more than ten times cheaper than if a bug reaches production. There are so many benefits.

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Software Software Code Energy 245

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A distinct, NN-based, video processing block can evolve independently, be used beyond video downscaling and be combined with different codecs. While conventional video codecs remain prevalent, NN-based video encoding tools are flourishing and closing the performance gap in terms of compression efficiency.

Network 292

Network Media Innovation Efficiency 292

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability. A process that doesn’t just minimize risk, but also facilitates a continuous evaluation of the rollout’s impact.

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Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

From Good To Great In Dashboard Design: Research, Decluttering And Data Viz. From Good To Great In Dashboard Design: Research, Decluttering And Data Viz. Tossing out suboptimal parts of our design can be a daunting task, especially after you’ve invested hours of work into it. Mediocre vs Great Dashboard Design.

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Design Best Practices Efficiency Testing 94

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Their design emphasizes increasing availability by spreading out files among different nodes or servers — this approach significantly reduces risks associated with losing or corrupting data due to node failure. This process effectively duplicates essential parts of information to safeguard against potential loss.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

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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Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

The RAG process begins by summarizing and converting user prompts into queries that are sent to a search platform that uses semantic similarities to find relevant data in vector databases, semantic caches, or other online data sources. RAG augments user prompts with relevant data retrieved from outside the LLM.

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Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 209

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

DevSecOps is a cross-team collaboration framework that integrates security into DevOps processes from the start rather than waiting to address security in a separate silo. DevOps has gained ground in recent years as a way to combine key operational principles with development cycles, recognizing that these two processes must coexist.

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DevOps Best Practices Open Source Tuning 274

Edge Perspectives

MARCH 26, 2019

In our Big Shift world, we confront the imperative of institutional innovation – shifting from institutional models built on scalable efficiency to institutional models built on scalable learning. I’ve written and spoken about this a lot over the years and one of the most common pushbacks I get is – “so, are you against efficiency?”

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Efficiency Scalability Innovation Programming 89

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Gartner® predicts that by 2026, 40% of log telemetry will be processed through a telemetry pipeline product, up from less than 10% in 2022.* The resulting vast increase in data volume highlights the need for more efficient data handling solutions. As a result, only authorized users can view or modify data within a designated bucket.

Best Practices 249

Best Practices Analytics Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 249

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Operational automation–including but not limited to, auto diagnosis, auto remediation, auto configuration, auto tuning, auto scaling, auto debugging, and auto testing–is key to the success of modern data platforms. In this way, no human intervention is required in the remediation process. Multi-objective optimizations. user name).

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Tuning Efficiency Big Data Engineering 210

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt). Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt). To many designers and developers the process of designing for mobile assumes that touch is natural, so we don’t need to pay any particular attention to the design of touch systems.

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Mobile Design Internet Internet 104

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Automating tasks throughout the SDLC helps software development and operations teams collaborate while continuously improving how they design, build, test, deploy, release, and monitor software applications. It helps to assess the long- and short-term efficiency and speed of DevOps. Benefits of automation in DevOps.

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DevOps Innovation Speed Monitoring 193

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. offers the Software Watchdog specifically designed for this purpose.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Bainbridge believed that automation designers were in denial about this, however. As she saw it, designers approached the problem of automation as if the human factor were not , in fact, a factor. This is precisely the kind of problem that robotic process automation (RPA) aims to address. RPA explained.

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Processing Programming Virtualization Technology 83

Smashing Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Development Process. Development Process. This method of modularization allows for efficient program development and easy debugging and modification in our application. There is also a test folder to carry out testing for this feature. Testing libraries. Component Testing. Unit testing.

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Speed Processing Development Code 133

Testlodge

MAY 26, 2021

To do this, the team should concentrate on risk-based testing aspects of the project that can reduce the possibility of failure by maintaining quality and stability. With this approach, organizations can quantify and mitigate risks, helping them to prioritize test cases more effectively. Overview of Risk-Based Testing.

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Testing Software Engineering Best Practices Strategy 105

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A vital aspect of such development is subjective testing with HDR encodes in order to generate training data. The pandemic, however, posed unique challenges in conducting a conventional in-lab subjective test with HDR encodes. This is achieved by more efficiently spacing the ladder points, especially in the high-bitrate region.

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Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

using RL agents for test case scheduling By: Stanislav Kirdey , Kevin Cureton , Scott Rick , Sankar Ramanathan Introduction Netflix brings delightful customer experiences to homes on a variety of devices that continues to grow each day. Detect a regression in a test case.

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Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Your next challenge is ensuring your DevOps processes, pipelines, and tooling meet the intended goal. Deployment frequency measures both long-term and short-term efficiency. For example, by measuring deployment frequency daily or weekly, you can determine how efficiently your team is responding to process changes.

DevOps 206

DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 206

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2022

. “As code” means simplifying complex and time-consuming tasks by automating some, or all, of their processes. Today, the composable nature of code enables skilled IT teams to create and customize automated solutions capable of improving efficiency. Test, test, test. Prioritize a single source of truth.

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Best Practices Infrastructure Code Speed 214

Tasktop

JANUARY 13, 2020

Just as it’s important to track how much value you’re delivering, how long work is takin, and how much WIP your teams have, it’s also vital to track what work is actively (code, test, automation, designing and all that creative work) being worked on to identify where waste and wait states are holding up value delivery. One large U.S.

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Efficiency Healthcare Metrics Design 64

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2022

On the left side of the loop, teams plan, develop, and test software in pre-production. The main concern in pre-production on the left side of the loop is building software that meets design criteria. With shift right, DevOps teams test a built application to ensure performance, resilience, and software reliability.

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DevOps Testing Monitoring Speed 207

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding tenets organizations can use to evaluate architecture and implement designs that will scale over time. Performance efficiency. Figure 1 – Individual Host pages show performance metrics, problem history, event history, and related processes for each host. Reliability.

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Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 193

Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

As developers move to microservice-centric designs, components are broken into independent services to be developed, deployed, and maintained separately. Shifting from monolith to microservices makes it easier to test, develop, and release innovative features more rapidly. Easier to test. Better testing. Easier to deploy.

Architecture 200

Architecture DevOps Monitoring Programming 200

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2022

On the left side of the loop, teams plan, develop, and test software in pre-production. The main concern in pre-production on the left side of the loop is building software that meets design criteria. With shift right, DevOps teams test a built application to ensure performance, resilience, and software reliability.

DevOps 202

DevOps Testing Monitoring Speed 202