The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This abstraction allows the compute team to influence the reliability, efficiency, and operability of the fleet via the scheduler. We do this for reliability, scalability, and efficiency reasons. Road to Implementation We began work to enable user namespaces in early 2017. The hosts that run workloads are called Titus “agents.”

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

BPU: Brain Processing Unit is the design of the AI chips by Horizon Robotics. They unveiled their first two embedded AI chips fabricated with TSMC 40nm process in December 2017: “Journey 1.0 With its modular architecture, DLA is scalable, highly configurable, and designed to simplify integration and portability.

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 27, 2023

Observability tools are designed have the lowest overhead possible so that they are safe to run in production while analyzing an active performance issue. BPF for security monitoring was first explored by myself and a Netflix security engineer, Alex Maestretti, in a 2017 BSides talk (some slides below).

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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 We expect these bitrates to evolve over time as we get more efficient with our encoding techniques.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. By 2017, open source projects like Open-Tracing and Open-Zipkin were mature enough for use in polyglot runtime environments at Netflix. Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account.

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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. 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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Tech News Gather

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Apple’s official move into augmented reality was announced at WWDC in 2017. ” The VR and XR gear will have a futuristic design. In the future, they will likely grow more accessible, familiar, and efficient, ushering in yet another technological advance for virtual reality. Giving rise to XR tech. Benefits of XR.

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Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 2023. If you don’t have well-designed and small columns for this composite primary key, it could enlarge all of your secondary indexes. ensures that only relevant partitions are accessed, further enhancing query efficiency.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Our focus is on typefaces for reading large amounts of text and information in the most efficient, legible, pleasurable, comprehensible, and effective way possible. What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? Thomas Bohm. More after jump!

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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.

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Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. From migrations, database design, and architecture … to performance assessment and tuning … to proactive monitoring and management of your databases — you’re covered.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

These numbers are based on first-page load — caching seems very efficient for subsequent page loads. We can see that some types of embeds are more efficient than others: Instagram embeds load asynchronously by default, so they don’t block the main thread. A selection of well-designed testimonials could be a better alternative.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in September 2023. To address these challenges, architects must design robust and scalable MongoDB databases and adopt appropriate sharding strategies that can efficiently handle increasing workloads while ensuring continuous availability.

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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.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 31, 2018

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Back in 1971, in a talk called “ Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World ,” political scientist Herbert Simon noted that the cost of information is not just money spent to acquire it but the time it takes to consume it. These are all astonishing tools for making our limited capacity for attention more efficient.

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

The approach was influential in the design of the SQL Sentry performance dashboard, which presents waits flanked by queues (key resource metrics) to deliver a comprehensive view of server performance. Query Store 2017 to the Rescue. Fortunately, doing so via better query design, indexing, etc. of Total Wait Time.

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Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

Instead, the business may design and redesign systems as customer expectations change and business objectives evolve. StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. It stores data in documents and collections, a design ideal for handling large amounts of unstructured data.

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Enprowess

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

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. Flutter Overview.

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Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

However, ClickHouse is super efficient for timeseries and provides “sharding” out of the box (scalability beyond one node). Although such databases can be very efficient with counts and averages, some queries will be slow or simply non existent. Inserts are efficient for bulk inserts only. created_utc?? ?

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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. You'd be forgiven for thinking the verbiage was designed obfuscate. It's functional purpose (outside of signaling) is to obscure furious plate spinning. But dreams die hard.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

Engineering is the discipline of designing solutions under specific constraints. This low-end cohort will filter through the device population for years to come, pulling our performance budgets down, even as renewed process improvement is unlocking improved power efficiency and performance at the high end of the first-sale market.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Offers Easy Navigation & Seamless User Experience: Single page app has a simple design, and it delivers an experience like a desktop or mobile app. Twitter Lite PWA : It was integrated as the standard User Interface in 2017. Its visual design pattern became a mainstream trend in web app development. AI-powered Chatbots.

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CSS Wizardry

APRIL 2, 2018

Here are my top five most-played tracks of 2017’s 70,000 minutes: However, after recently discussing one of my all-time favourite tracks with a friend, and, bizarrely enough, with Nu:Tone himself, I decided that I wanted to start taking my listening a little more seriously. At home, I’m used to just streaming Spotify through an Amazon Echo.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

WebGL 2 launched for other platforms on Chrome and Firefox in 2017. Apple's policy against browser engine choice adds years of delays beyond the (expected) delay of design iteration, specification authoring, and browser feature development. The underlying graphics capabilities from OpenGL ES 3.0 Form-associated Web Components.

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Tasktop

JUNE 25, 2020

When I joined Tasktop back in October of 2017, Tasktop was doing really well. Tasktop’s solutions are designed to help companies turn things around fast because we realize there is no time to waste. Fate or Free Will . Her answer: It’s coming. . And it has. But if I am only for myself, what am I? . We are talking about survival here.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 13, 2019

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? That way, the number of obscure edge cases can be reduced and the images can be handled as efficiently as possible. — Harry Roberts (@csswizardry) March 1, 2017.

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Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

This blog was originally published in February 2017 and was updated in August 2023. However, there are many parameters influencing the efficiency and consistency of the data transfer. Replication sounds perfect, I can use this as a manual failover solution. Theoretically, the environments should be comparable.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

They’ve all had additional specialized training; and they all have a reasonably well-designed user interface. All of these models are based on a technology called Transformers , which was invented by Google Research and Google Brain in 2017. The design of Transformers lends itself to large sets of training data.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

A 2017 study by Akamai says as much when it found that even a 100ms delay in page load can decrease conversions by 7% and lose 1% of their sales for every 100ms it takes for their site to load which, at the time of the study, was equivalent to $1.6 Ideally, that’s something you or a designer would do when initially making the assets.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

— Alex Russell (@slightlylate) October 4, 2017. Contended, over-subscribed cells can make “fast” networks brutally slow, transport variance can make TCP much less efficient , and the bursty nature of web traffic works against us. We now have everything we need to create a ballpark perf budget for a product in 2017.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term. Setting Realistic Goals.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

The term “component” is often used to refer both to functionality and design. Note : Brad Frost’s “ Atomic Design ” is a great methodology for identifying these common patterns and building a reusable design system. Brad Frost identifies five distinct levels in atomic design for creating design systems.

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John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Introduction: In December 2017, my colleague Damon McDougall (now at AMD) asked for help in porting the fused multiply-add example code from a Colfax report ( [link] ) to the Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) processors here at TACC. A peculiar throughput limitation on Intel’s Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing). FMAs/cycle. .

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

I’ve written several articles about this function (and STRING_AGG, which arrived in SQL Server 2017) since this post was written: Performance Surprises and Assumptions : STRING_SPLIT(). He spent a lot of time fine-tuning this CLR function to efficiently parse a string. STRING_SPLIT() in SQL Server 2016 : Follow-Up #1.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I hope to raise the profile of difficulties faced by real people, which are avoidable if we design and develop in a way that is sympathetic to their needs. Read “ Efficiently load JavaScript with defer and async ” for more information. Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. Anyway, enough Google dissecting.

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