The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

In late 2017, we received some critical feedback from the brothers on the Stranger Things 2 audio mix: in some scenes, there was a reduced sense of where sounds are located in the 5.1-channel Adaptive streaming is a technology designed to deliver media to the user in the most optimal way for their network connection.

Engineering 274

Engineering Network Media Entertainment 274

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. 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.

Website 98

Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

I joined the team in early 2017, and I'm blown away at how quickly the years have flown by. Run A/B tests on design and code variations With synthetic monitoring, it's super easy to benchmark not only your site versus a competitor's, but also variations of your own URLs. We're officially in our tweens! Cue the mood swings?)

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. That community spans expertise and industries, putting diverse skill sets and fresh perspectives into the review and improvement of code. And there’s a global community dedicated to keeping it open source.

Open Source 77

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 77

Testsigma

JANUARY 13, 2021

Studies show that in 2017, the worldwide failure rate of iOS apps was as high as 54%, with Android apps crashing 10% of the time. Companies must complete this review process before even finishing the new feature’s wireframe design. Even a small bug will make consumers avoid, uninstall and leave bad reviews for your application.

Mobile 54

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Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

This blog post was originally published in November 2017 and was updated in June 2023. While originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, it evolved into its own distinct database management system and is now maintained and supported by the MariaDB Foundation. 3 GA 23 May 2017 10.2.6 release based on MySQL 5.5,

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

His keynote address from O’Reilly Fluent 2017, Reflecting on 20 years on the web , is a must-see. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine until October 2017 when he passed the baton to the remarkable Rachel Andrew. Most recently, he launched a fantastic new HTML5 Mastery… course. Patrick Hamann. Scott Jehl.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

SQL Performance

MAY 13, 2020

I just wanted to mention some use cases here to illustrate how important table expressions are in our T-SQL code, and why it's worthwhile to invest in understanding their fundamentals well. Using this technique, it's very easy when reviewing the code to tell which target column name is assigned to which expression. What happened?

C++ 143

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CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Here’s an interesting tidbit from that link: According to CNBC , the number of lawsuits over inaccessible websites jumped 58 percent last year over 2017, to more than 2,200. Inaccessible websites are not just a consideration for designers and engineers but a serious problem for a company’s legal team as well.

Website 54

Website Best Practices Engineering Design 54

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 13, 2019

The first time I made an image responsive, it was as simple as coding these four lines: img { max-width: 100%; height auto; /* default */ }. The answer, in turn, depends on the answers to these questions: Are the images created dynamically by the user or statically by a design team? See the code example below. <main>

Media 72

Media Artificial Intelligence Strategy Open Source 72

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2022

Low-code/no-code tools are already becoming a mainstay for many global teams. By going no-code/low-code, teams can now fill in the gap between the accelerating demands of application delivery and team skill sets. No-code/Low-code testing tools helping Agile Teams. credits: me. credits: me.

Testing Tools 52

Testing Tools Code Testing Speed 52

SQL Performance

JANUARY 8, 2020

Conversely, actual aggregate functions, which are applied across rows, are designed to ignore NULL inputs. Another option is to explicitly replace NULL inputs with an empty string using the ISNULL or COALESCE functions, but this usually results in lengthy verbose code. Contacts ; GO. CREATE TABLE dbo. Contacts. (

Design 65

Design C++ Code Database 65

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

For years SSRS was bundled with the installation of SQL Server, which helped add to some of the confusion around licensing and support for the product, so beginning with SSRS 2017, the installation package for Reporting Services is a separate download. These files consist of: Rsreportserver.config. Rssvrpolicy.config. Rsmgrpolicy.config.

Tuning 67

Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. Up until 2017, the ML+AI topic had been amongst the fastest growing topics on the platform. R-related usage on O’Reilly online learning fell by 8% between 2017-18 and by 6%, year-over-year, in 2019. Coincidence?

Software Architecture 137

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 137

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 29, 2017

Recently I blogged about the design of of the debugger bridge and the use of LLDB. Taking a closer look at the log and stepping though the LLDB code I found the read failure occurring because the memory address could not be located in the tracked VM map. The change is now under review so it can be added back to the LLDB code base.

Servers 40

Servers Programming Media Open Source 40

ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel prize in Economics for his work on Behavioral Economics. In industry, generally due to time-to-market restrictions, we tend to think extremely short term with evolutionary design changes rather than riskier revolutionary ideas that have a longer timeline for returns.

Architecture 47

Architecture Cache Hardware Virtualization 47

Smashing Magazine

JULY 11, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. I loved making prints from linocuts, and in much the same way that I’m often entirely absorbed by writing code today, I regularly lost myself carving thousands of tiny marks until the floor was covered in sharp shards of lino.

Design 95

Design Media Mobile Energy 95

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 28, 2018

SQL Server also supports XA based transactions but has no code in the SQL Server engine to engage in XA transactions. MSDTC can also be used as the XA TM if so desired (see example code at end of this post.). SQLJDBC uses a slightly different design but again the SQL Server service does not change.

Servers 40

Servers Azure Engineering Java 40

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In the kernel, you’ll often see capability checks spread throughout the code, which looks something like this: [link] Notice this function doesn’t check if the user is root, but if the task has the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability before allowing it to execute. Let’s go back to that kernel code example earlier. User Namespaces.

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve played around with using AI tools like ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot to write code for you. So far I’ve read a gazillion blog posts about people’s experiences with these AI coding assistance tools. or “ha look how incompetent it is … it couldn’t even get my simple question right!”

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

The goal of this experience from a UX design perspective was to bring together a tightly-related set of original titles that, though distinct entities on their own, also share a connected universe. We hypothesized this design would net a far greater visual impact than if the titles were distributed individually throughout the page.

Cache 166

Cache Design Testing Development 166

Sutter's Mill

AUGUST 13, 2023

1:21:50 – “Dart plan”: designing something new, not worry about compatible interop, competitive 1:23:20 – “TypeScript plan”: designing for something compatible, cooperative 1:25:40 – what it takes to evolve C++ compatibly, which no other effort has tried before 1:28:50 – filling in the blank: for C++

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C++ Efficiency Design Virtualization 84

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Refactoring is a challenging process that is much more complex than simply deleting the legacy code and replacing it with the refactored code. Harry Roberts has outlined this strategy in 2017. This is only a temporary file and it will be removed once the legacy code is deleted.

Strategy 134

Strategy Testing Best Practices Code 134

O'Reilly Software

AUGUST 23, 2018

For more than 15 years, my colleagues and I at the Software Improvement Group (SIG) have been in the business of evaluating the quality of code, architecture, and development practices for our customers. Recently, we dove into our assessment data to discover—and quantify —trends in software development, each time comparing 2016 to 2017.

Software 73

Software Software Development Code 73

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Created by Jon Yablonski, this lovely website explains 21 psychological principles that designers can consider to create more human-centered products and experiences. The right tools at the right time, help streamline the design process. User experience research is a crucial component of the human-centered design process.

Airlines 130

Airlines Mobile Design Strategy 130

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Certain tools are designed for certain metrics with certain assumptions that produce certain results. And we can get that with real-user monitoring (RUM) where a snippet of code on my site collects real data based on from real network conditions coming from real users is sent to a server and parsed for reporting. Lighthouse results.

Speed 82

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 82

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Every technical challenge in this design space is paired with an even more daunting governance problem. These privacy requirements put challenging constraints on the design of a shared cache. But the completeness constraint is far from our only design challenge. Trust Falls #. Variations on a Theme #. Thar be more dragons.

Cache 82

Cache Government Traffic Network 82

Enprowess

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Code Maintainability. Bloomberg – Efficient, simple-to-access, personalized content for end-users with automatic code refreshing options. Its first release was in May 2017 and was rarely used by developers, but it continues its speedy growth and becomes more and more popular in the developer community. Performance comparison.

Development 52

Development Social Media Mobile Code 52

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

They did the opposite, doubling down, breathlessly announcing vapourware year after year to defer critical thinking about the fundamental errors in the design. SSR is vital because SPAs take a long time to start up, and you aren't using our vapourware to split your code effectively.

Social Media 119

Social Media Website Technology Technology 119

O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

It can explain code that you don’t understand, including code that has been intentionally obfuscated. Sydney The internal code name of the chatbot behind Microsoft’s improved search engine, Bing. Bard Google’s code name for its chat-oriented search engine, based on their LaMDA model, and only demoed once in public.

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Google Open Source Programming Code 108

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The sample code is provided “as is” and any express or implied warranties, including the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, are disclaimed. textBoxDisplay.Text += strText; } } } } }. Designer.cs. null)) { components.Dispose(); } base.Dispose(disposing); }. BeginInit(); this.splitContainer1.Panel1.SuspendLayout();

Efficiency 40

Efficiency Code Servers Cache 40

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The talks are up on YouTube , including my own (behind a paywall, but the slides are freely available [1] ): The talk, like this post, is an update on network and CPU realities this series has documented since 2017. These are depressingly similar specs to devices I recommended for testing in 2017. 2023 Content Targets #. 2-4 CPU cores.

Performance 113

Performance Network Mobile Latency 113

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

In simple terms, an open source database is this: It’s a database with source code that is free and available to all. Public accessibility enables and allows users to download, modify, and distribute the code. Their work produces higher-quality code and enables faster innovation, while maintaining high security standards.

Open Source 73

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 73

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Daniel An, Google, 2017. According to Google SOASTA research, 2017 the probability of page bounce rate increases with increasing page loading time, because it greatly improves the user experience. Factors that impact on CLS: loading ads without a designated room. Gary Illyes, Google, 2017. Optimize third-party code.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

It’s easy to make experimental design mistakes that invalidate your online controlled experiments. PlanAlyzer acts a bit like a linter for online experiment designs, where those designs are specified in the PlanOut language. Experimental design with PlanOut. What can go wrong in experiment design?

Programming 52

Programming Internet Internet Design 52

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

First introduced in SQL Server 2017 Enterprise Edition, an adaptive join enables a runtime transition from a batch mode hash join to a row mode correlated nested loops indexed join (apply) at runtime. This is a just a presentation decision—the Concat and joins are still present in the code run by the SQL Server execution engine.

Servers 98

Servers Design Database Code 98

SQL Server According to Bob

MAY 19, 2019

As you can imagine, with a code base as large and vast as SQL Server, there is always room for improvement. The reduction effort started when we shipped SQL Server 2017 ( [link].) There are a bunch of folks with compiler, linker, SQL Server code, testing and other disciplines who provided input. SQL Server 2017.

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