The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

We had our first Studio applications consuming the federated graph, without any performance degradation, by the end of the 2019. We engaged with them to determine graph schema best practices to best suit the needs of Studio Engineering. Our goal was to open up the Studio Edge platform for self-service in April 2020.

Architecture 249

Architecture Best Practices Engineering Open Source 249

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Web application security is the process of protecting web applications against various types of threats that are designed to exploit vulnerabilities in an application’s code. According to the 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, web application attacks were the number one type of attack.

Open Source 185

Open Source Entertainment Tuning Internet 185

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The results in Figure 12 reflect what we know of the cloud market and mirror what we found in our cloud native survey from earlier in 2019. Custom tooling could simply be a shell script or cron job that is unique to a build process, but starts a chain of existing tools provided by various vendors. Concluding thoughts.

Serverless 88

Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 88

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. System setup is covered on the PostgreSQL Best Practice post so it will not be repeated here as the steps are the same.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

We’re happy to announce the General Availability of cross-environment dashboarding capabilities (having released this functionality in an Early Adopter release with Dynatrace version 1.172 back in June 2019). For this reason, using management zones is the best practice in order to segment/limit dashboard tiles when viewing remote information.

Availability 185

Availability Best Practices Monitoring Network 185

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Recognized as the fastest growing database by popularity, PostgreSQL was named the DBMS of the year in both 2018 and 2017 by DB-Engines, and continues to grow in popularity in 2019. In fact, PostgreSQL is so popular, 11.5% Comparison Overview.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. 2019-01-07T12:00:13+00:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The Dynatrace configuration API , helps many Dynatrace customers implement and gain the benefits of this best practice for their Dynatrace configurations such as alerting rules, synthetic scripts, dashboards, and SLO monitors. This second set of steps onboard a service and when the service SLI processing rules change.

Software 210

Software Software Open Source DevOps 210

O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

” Despite the slow rate of adoption, Java’s six-month release cadence has been trucking along—Java 12 dropped in March 2019, with Java 13 following in September. 2019 brought another surprise when Oracle moved Java SE to a subscription-based model. Or do people just not know about the benefits of 11 in containers?”

Programming 128

Programming Java Google C++ 128

Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 9, 2022

Having worked with something like 70 large and small companies over the past decade, the business processes and best practices have been tested and work well. One is general technology advice on the state of the art in development practices, along the lines of the Cloud for CEOs booklet I published for AWS in 2019.

IoT 52

IoT Best Practices AWS Media 52

Dynatrace

JULY 9, 2020

Autonomous Cloud Enablement (ACE) and Keptn – the Event-Driven Autonomous Cloud Control Plane – are helping our Dynatrace customers to automate their delivery and operations processes. The Dynatrace teams also built automation on top of Dynatrace to automate many tasks of our Continuous Delivery & Feedback (CDF) and operational processes.

Cloud 195

Cloud DevOps Azure Architecture 195

SQL Performance

AUGUST 12, 2020

The fix is of course to terminate the statement preceding the CTE definition, but as a best practice, you really should be terminating all of your statements: SELECT custid , country FROM Sales. The issue with this solution is that you cannot assign a name to a table expression and reuse it in the same logical query processing step.

C++ 140

C++ Code Design Database 140

Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. In 2019, we sold 500k tickets a year, so our operations are complex and we need to showcase it with our landing pages in an appealing and fast manner. That way, the user can start the process of painting the largest content paint ASAP.

Google 111

Google Architecture Servers Speed 111

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Sitting in the second half of 2019, we see a new chapter unfolding of the blockchain story as early enterprise adopters transition pilots into production. To achieve this, businesses have built up complex processes of checks and balances. What these projects ask is: what can be fixed by working together?

Blockchain 68

Blockchain IoT Logistics Internet 68

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

MB video, so it’s likely that developers followed a similar process to compress and encode the.webm variant as well. For full disclouse, I do work at the former one, so to simplify my video processing pipeline, I’ll use api.video , to transcode and host my videos. Video Playback On The Web: Video Delivery Best Practices (Part 2).

Network 143

Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in February 2019 and was updated in September 2023. This conversion ensures that the data appears correctly to users and can be processed and displayed as intended. Suppose you’re in the process of building a multilingual system that needs to support a diverse array of languages.

Performance 52

Performance Storage Social Media Database 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? Amazon even provides an official [recommendation] (2021): "For EC2 instances launched on the AWS Xen Hypervisor, it's a best practice to use the tsc clock source. In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

— Harry Roberts (@csswizardry) 3 March, 2019. That being said, more and more often in my work I see lots of opportunities being left on the table through unconsidered or even completely overlooked caching practices. Caching best practices & max-age gotchas. Cache-Control Header Builder – 2019.

Cache 264

Cache Latency Strategy Servers 264

CSS - Tricks

JANUARY 31, 2020

From 2016 (PDF warning) to 2019 , the average mobile download speed in the U.S. This is the time at which you develop and roll out training, documentation, best practices, and standards the organization can embrace. has increased by 73%.

Innovation 50

Innovation Mobile Best Practices Speed 50

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

2019-04-09T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Most sites were all hosted on a single physical server somewhere on our own hosting infrastructure, and it was the server we thought about defending when it came to security best practices. Understanding Subresource Integrity. Understanding Subresource Integrity.

Website 58

Website Servers Code Best Practices 58

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. For the more adventurous/technical, the top (table of processes) command provides similar metrics on most Unix-like operating systems such as macOS and Ubuntu. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. Jack Lenox. In Conclusion.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

(They seem to have learned from their mistakes for Prime Day 2019.). And Nordstrom dealt with crashes and other issues at the beginning of its popular anniversary sale in 2019. Review OWASP’s recommendations and best practices with your developers. The numbers tell the story – planning is essential.

Website 74

Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

Tasktop

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It’s been just over a week since this year’s DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 in Las Vegas came to a close. And BizDevOps is not just a buzzword, it’s a holistic journey that focuses on four dimensions – process, structure, technology and culture.”. When you find new ways to measure, you find new ways to innovate.

DevOps 8

DevOps Automotive Media Metrics 8

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Complex compression algorithms may require higher processing power to encode/decode images. A complex decoding process can slow down the rendering of images. It was released in February 2019 by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). Since its release in 2019, the support for AVIF has increased considerably.

Open Source 144

Open Source Speed Website Google 144

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. Failover includes these steps: The monitoring system sends an alert that the primary server is unavailable, triggering the failover process. Regularly schedule backups and test the restore process to ensure data integrity.

Availability 84

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 84

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Projects built using JavaScript-based frameworks often ship large bundles of JavaScript that take time to download, parse and execute, blocking page render and user input in the process. JavaScript-based frameworks like React made the process of developing web applications streamlined and efficient, for better or worse.

Code 89

Code Performance Network Website 89

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Nevertheless in this blog sometimes we do publish performance data to highlight best practices or potential configuration pitfalls and although we’ve mentioned this one before it is worth dedicating an entire post to it as this issue seems to appear numerous times running database workloads on Linux. uname -a Linux ubuntu19 5.3.0-rc3-custom

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

The OVER clause would then be: OVER ( PARTITION BY grp ORDER BY datacol , id ) At any rate, when computing row numbers based on some meaningful ordering specification like in Query 1, SQL Server needs to process the rows ordered by the combination of window partitioning and ordering elements. YouWillRegretThis ( ) ) AS n.

Servers 104

Servers C++ Storage Performance 104

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

USENIX Security Symposium 2019. While sanitization is always a best practice and should be applied at every opportunity, it is by no means a perfect defense. The secret sharer: evaluating and testing unintended memorization in neural networks Carlini et al., How can we build models that don’t expose secrets?

Network 55

Network Testing Strategy Google 55

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? Amazon even provides an official recommendation (2021): "For EC2 instances launched on the AWS Xen Hypervisor, it's a best practice to use the tsc clock source. In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

According to the front-end tools survey 2019, almost 48% of programmers are using Reactjs and 23% of developers use Vue. Companies that are looking for implementation of a single flow in their development process. Vue vs React: Talent Availability. According to the Developer Skills Report by HackerRank, 33.2%

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Scalability Google 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? Amazon even provides an official [recommendation] (2021): "For EC2 instances launched on the AWS Xen Hypervisor, it's a best practice to use the tsc clock source. In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt. These are: Performance Accessibility Best Practices SEO Progressive Web App. This allows us to process the report later without resulting in a messy pyramid of JavaScript. then(results => { return chrome.kill().then(()

Google 82

Google Latency Website Metrics 82

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. As you can see in this example, Globus Journeys answers many of those micro-moments right within the navigation: tips on touring (Touring 101), tips on travel best practices (Travel Tips), deals available for travel (Deals & Offers), etc. Designing For Micro-Moments. Designing For Micro-Moments.

Design 62

Design Google Website Small Business 62

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Micro-optimizations are great for keeping performance on track, but it’s critical to have clearly defined targets in mind — measurable goals that would influence any decisions made throughout the process. Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

For instance, if I’m reading a paper from 2019, a popular song from that year could start playing. And since this setup process was so new to me, I had a hard time thinking about how to phrase my questions. And if I switch tabs to view a paper from 2008, then a song from 2008 could start up.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98