DZone

OCTOBER 6, 2021

When testing the performance of a native Android or iOS app, choosing the right set of devices is critical for maximizing your chances of success. In order to ship new updates of your app with confidence, you should efficiently analyze app performance during development to identify issues before they reach the end-users.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng , Simon Ejdemyr , Stephanie Lane , and Colin McFarland This is the fourth post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. Have a look at Part 1 (Decision Making at Netflix), Part 2 (What is an A/B Test?), Need to catch up?

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

While conventional video codecs remain prevalent, NN-based video encoding tools are flourishing and closing the performance gap in terms of compression efficiency. We employed an adaptive network design that is applicable to the wide variety of resolutions we use for encoding. How do we apply neural networks at scale efficiently?

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Network Media Innovation Efficiency 292

Testsigma

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Responsive Web Design (RWD) is a term that was defined by Ethan Marcotte in 2010 according to which, design and development of web pages should be responsive to different screen size, platform, and orientation. Here are the three key components of responsive web design – 1. Testing Responsive Web Design.

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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?

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. No matter what HMI we design, we need to allow users to take advantage of all that a system has to offer. Car HMI design is a relatively new field with its specifics that you need to be aware of.

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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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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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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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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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DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

If you start catching bugs early, it will save you tons of time fixing them later.nn> Design reviewnnIt’s a very powerful tool when used in a good way. I really like what one of the smartest people with whom I worked said: “A good design is a design where you can see the code”. There are so many benefits.

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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.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 8, 2024

They should ensure alignment with operational requirements while choosing the most appropriate log format configuration to efficiently manage server activities directly or indirectly related to potential data transformations on databases under stewardship. Use the ‘–log-bin’ option to designate a base name for the binary log files.

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DZone

MAY 3, 2019

Bugs can be present at any stage during SDLC (software development lifecycle), or at the design, development, or user-acceptance testing phase. Whether you are testing a web portal for general bugs or for browser-compatibility issues , proper understanding and elimination are necessary. Bugs can never be eliminated completely.

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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. the retry success probability) and compute cost efficiency (i.e., Multi-objective optimizations.

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Tuning Efficiency Big Data Engineering 210

InfoQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Peter Lawrey discusses achieving vertical scalability by minimizing accidental complexity and using an event-driven architecture. By Peter Lawrey

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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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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. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

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 9, 2021

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Model observability provides visibility into resource consumption and operation costs, aiding in optimization and ensuring the most efficient use of available resources. For model explainability, they can implement custom regression tests, providing indicators of model reputation and behavior over time.

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Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 201

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

Testlodge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Software testers explore the effectiveness of processes that should lead to quality software products to make sure they perform the purpose for which they have been designed. Various testing activities take place throughout the software development lifecycle, including compatibility testing, which is a non-functional testing technique.

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Testing Hardware Operating System Mobile 78

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. These problems could be solved in several different ways.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures. These essential data points heavily influence both stability and efficiency within the system. offers the Software Watchdog specifically designed for this purpose.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

This includes custom, built-in-house apps designed for a single, specific purpose, API-driven connections that bridge the gap between legacy systems and new services, and innovative apps that leverage open-source code to streamline processes. Each has its own role to play in successfully implementing this tactical trifecta at scale.

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DevOps Best Practices Open Source Tuning 264

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Testing for mishaps you can predict is essential. Chaos engineering is a method of testing distributed software that deliberately introduces failure and faulty scenarios to verify its resilience in the face of random disruptions. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior.

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Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 221

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.

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Architecture DevOps Monitoring Programming 192

Smashing Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

It’s A (Front-End Testing) Trap! Six Common Testing Pitfalls And How To Solve Them. It’s A (Front-End Testing) Trap! Six Common Testing Pitfalls And How To Solve Them. All right, but what does this have to do with testing? Well, it’s simply an apt allegory when it comes to dealing with tests in a code base.

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Testing Best Practices Code Design 120

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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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The resulting vast increase in data volume highlights the need for more efficient data handling solutions. Thus, organizations face the critical problem of designing and implementing effective solutions to manage this growing data deluge and its associated implications. This boundary is crucial for controlling query-related costs.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Organizations have increasingly turned to software development to gain competitive edge, to innovate and to enable more efficient operations. Autonomous testing. As teams develop software more quickly, they can’t rely on manual methods to test applications. Chaos engineering.

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Software Software Artificial Intelligence DevOps 192

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

With the latest developments in IT sector services, the sector of QA testing has seen significant improvement and growth. The implementation of emerging technologies has helped improve the process of software development, testing, design and deployment. Many changes are rendered through automated testing. Hyperautomation.

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Artificial Intelligence Software Software IoT 92

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 20, 2020

To achieve that, we are efficiently using ABR (adaptive bitrate streaming) for a better playback experience, DRM (Digital Right Management) to protect our service and TLS (Transport Layer Security) to protect customer privacy and to create a safer streaming experience. It is simpler, more secure and more efficient than its predecessor.

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Network Media Transportation Traffic 237

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. Automated testing.

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