Tue.Feb 13, 2024

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Understanding Status Page Aggregation: Inside the Technology of a Typical Status Page Aggregator

DZone

To explore status page aggregation, we’ll share our experience building a status page aggregator tool – StatusGator, which has been availble for eight years. We will share our technical insights and also share how you can build your own aggregator.

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Introducing SafeTest: A Novel Approach to Front End Testing

The Netflix TechBlog

by Moshe Kolodny In this post, we’re excited to introduce SafeTest, a revolutionary library that offers a fresh perspective on End-To-End (E2E) tests for web-based User Interface (UI) applications. The Challenges of Traditional UI Testing Traditionally, UI tests have been conducted through either unit testing or integration testing (also referred to as End-To-End (E2E) testing).

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O11y Guide, Cloud-Native Observability Pitfalls: Ignoring Existing Landscape

DZone

Are you looking at your organization's efforts to enter or expand into the cloud-native landscape and feeling a bit daunted by the vast expanse of information surrounding cloud-native observability? When you're moving so fast with agile practices across your DevOps, SREs, and platform engineering teams, it's no wonder this can seem a bit confusing. Unfortunately, the choices being made have a great impact on both your business, your budgets, and the ultimate success of your cloud-native initiati

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What I've been reading since re:Invent

All Things Distributed

After a busy conference season, I've taken some time to catch up on reading and make a dent in the pile of books on my nightstand. Here's what I've started, finished, and picked up since re:Invent.

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PostgreSQL Column Alignment and Padding – How To Improve Performance With Smarter Table Design

Percona

In this blog post, we are going to briefly discuss the reasons why column order matters when creating tables -or relations- in PostgreSQL.

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Sequential A/B Testing Keeps the World Streaming Netflix Part 1: Continuous Data

The Netflix TechBlog

Michael Lindon , Chris Sanden , Vache Shirikian , Yanjun Liu , Minal Mishra , Martin Tingley 1. Spot the Difference Can you spot any difference between the two data streams below? Each observation is the time interval between a Netflix member hitting the play button and playback commencing, i.e., play-delay. These observations are from a particular type of A/B test that Netflix runs called a software canary or regression-driven experiment.

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The OpenAI Endgame

O'Reilly

Since The New York Times sued OpenAI for infringing its copyrights by using Times content for training, everyone involved with AI has been wondering about the consequences. How will this lawsuit play out? And, more importantly, how will the outcome affect the way we train and use large language models? There are two components to this suit. First, it was possible to get ChatGPT to reproduce some Times articles, very close to verbatim.