The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

At Netflix we strongly prefer schema-first development because: The schema design is front and center of the developer experience. Although it might be marginally quicker to generate schema from the code, putting the time into designing your schema in a human readable, collaborative way is well worth the effort towards a better API.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Alexey Brodovitch. Inspired Design Decisions: Alexey Brodovitch. 2019-09-05T13:30:59+02:00. 2019-09-05T13:30:34+00:00. Before writing Art Direction for the Web , I began to study Alexey Brodovitch when I became fascinated by editorial and magazine design. Andrew Clarke. Large preview ).

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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

We shall also see how decisions are made in an enterprise and why cross-browser testing is the most important thing in 2021 to sustain a healthy business. In the summer of 2019, British Airways faced a technical issue on its website. What does enterprise mean from a tester’s POV? Needs of an enterprise.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

Testing it (subjectively or objectively) also depends on the context — which can be very tricky. We saw how important it is to keep the typographic design parameters and variables the same to get a more accurate result while testing different typefaces. Precise numerical score based on a standard test. Don’t worry!

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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. Testing And Monitoring. Vitaly Friedman. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? Table Of Contents. Setting Realistic Goals.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

What you may be overlooking is that peak-event readiness is about more than just load testing or ensuring that your servers are up throughout a specific timeframe. They seem to have learned from their mistakes for Prime Day 2019.). The numbers tell the story – planning is essential. Are they providing meaningful, actionable data?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Bea Feitler, An Unstoppable Creative Force. Inspired Design Decisions: Bea Feitler, An Unstoppable Creative Force. 2019-10-03T14:30:59+02:00. 2019-10-03T13:18:03+00:00. Even if you didn’t study graphic design at art school, you might know a few famous names. Andrew Clarke.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 8, 2019

In this article, we will be talking about the technologies and techniques that are expected to become test automation trends in 2020. The highlights of the top test automation trends that we will be discussing in this article are: Integration of Automation of different processes to enable improved and enhanced end to end automation for eg.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 22, 2021

In 2019, the worldwide sales of mobile devices were 1524 million units. In this post, we will analyze these challenges of mobile app testing and how we can manage them. Each one of them has its own set of challenges and testing methods. This becomes a big challenge for QA testers and people related to testing.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

A number of sites moved to font-display: swap when this first came out, and Google Fonts even made it the default in 2019. — that it will give people the impression, perhaps subconsciously, that something is “off” about the website and may impact how people use the website.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

By mandating proof of developer enthusiasm for features, extensive test suites, and accurate specifications, the catch-up process has been put on rails for Apple. This lack of transparency is by design and provides Apple deniability while simultaneously setting low expectations, making them easier to exceed.

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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. Then those tools have to be configured and tested to work together. PostgreSQL hasn’t just been a concern to its competitors; it’s swooped past most of them. It all helps ensure the cluster’s peak performance.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. How to get these matrics right and not mess up?

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

According to StatCounter , as of September 2019, Google Chrome holds 63.72% browser market share across the globe. The Chrome DevTools can greatly improve your workflow by helping you develop, test, and debug your websites right within your browser. This can be especially useful when testing and debugging third party plugins.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The technology develops single-page applications , websites, and backend API services designed with real-time and push-based architectures. Unit testing: Node.js has a unit testing framework called Jasmine, which allows unit testing of code during development. Easy UI test cases. Use cases of Node.js

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Jos

APRIL 5, 2018

Componentizing generally makes testing and maintenance easier. You can check Website Sameness or Web Design Trends: Why Do All Websites Look The Same? Here I’m rendering a test page (you can see the source here ) using Google Webmaster Tools’ “Fetch as Google”. for some inspiration :). a section with a few images.

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CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

And lab data, from the Lighthouse test we just initiated, beneath that: Here we can clearly see that this was run from a predetermined location, on a predetermined device, over a predetermined connection speed. We launched this change a few weeks back after rigorous testing. This was one page load run by us, for us.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The risks embedded in these deep-wetware effects, and their cross-origin implications, mean that your website's success is partially a function of the health of the commons. The worldwide ASP 18 months ago was ~$300USD , so the average performance in the deployed fleet can be represented by a $300 device from mid-2019. " package.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Defenders of Apple's monopoly offer hard-to-test claims, but many boil down to the idea that Apple's product is inferior by necessity. This will, in turn, cause developers to skimp on testing for Safari, making it inevitable that browsers based on WebKit and other minority engines cannot compete. Or so the theory goes.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in February 2019 and was updated in September 2023. An Example Illustrating Character Set Concepts If you have a MySQL database for a multilingual website, you might use the UTF-8 character set, which supports characters from various languages, including English, Chinese, Arabic, and others.

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Rigor

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Reading time 4 min The CPDoS attack that was discovered in October 2019 and the corresponding attention paid to it within the technology sphere brought to light an issue many of us overlook: the boundaries of our web applications have expanded, and that has increased the number of systems and services that must be monitored and secured.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Quick Wins.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Like any file referenced and used on a website, it first needs to be downloaded from a server. Website performance is not consistent across devices. This estimation doesn’t include parsing and execution times which also affects website performance. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. It should be useful if you are new to product design, UX, interaction or digital design, or if you have experience in these fields but have not performed a competitive analysis before. Competitive Analysis, Service Design Cycle, Five-Stages Design Process. The five-stages design process.

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Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

I'm only aware of a few such instances: Apple's 2019 response to the U.S. Nefarious websites have analysed other web browser engines and found flaws that have not been disclosed, and exploit those flaws when a user goes to a particular website to silently violate user privacy or security.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. As a result, website performance can suffer. Recommended reading : How To Use Heatmaps To Track Clicks On Your WordPress Website. If long website response times keep you up at night, this is a how-to for you. Another advantage is reflected in the website security. Denis Žoljom.

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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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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2019

2019-08-09T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-08-09T12:36:17+00:00. Whilst I adore Sheffield United, the mighty blades, their website’s CSS is bundled into a single 568kb minified file, which comes to 105kb even when gzipped. This is Sheffield United’s website , my local Football team (that’s Soccer for you lot over in the colonies ????).

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

2019-07-29T14:00:59+02:00. 2019-07-29T13:06:57+00:00. 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. I installed ModHeader and set the ‘Save-Data’ header to let websites know I want to minimise my data usage.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Testing And Monitoring. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

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Jos

APRIL 5, 2018

Puedes echar un ojo a Website Sameness o Web Design Trends: Why Do All Websites Look The Same? Aquí estoy cargando una página de test (puedes ver el código fuente aquí ) usando la función “Fetch as Google” de Google Webmaster Tools. La componentización suele hacer más fácil el testeo y mantenimiento del código.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. The original design of the GIF format was to provide a way to compress multiple images inside a single file using a lossless compression algorithm (called LZW compression) which meant they could be downloaded in a reasonably short space of time, even on slow connections. Ayo Isaiah. 2018-11-05T14:30:14+01:00.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

You’ll be able to use a scaffolding tool referred to as create-react-app to begin building your project , establish a local development server, check your code for errors, and execute unit tests/e2e. According to the front-end tools survey 2019, almost 48% of programmers are using Reactjs and 23% of developers use Vue. Source: moz.com.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

That also means answering this other question: “How can one evaluate, manage and guarantee the quality of a website?” When delving into the concept of website quality assurance back in 2001, we started with a simple question: “What does quality mean for the users?”. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. We were designing and building things, setting up new products, refactoring the components, and publishing articles. Back in 2017, the entire layout was built with Flexbox and rebuilt with CSS Grid and CSS Custom Properties in mid-2019. Vitaly Friedman.

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O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

For instance, if I’m reading a paper from 2019, a popular song from that year could start playing. Swift Papers felt like a well-scoped project to test how well AI handles a realistic yet manageable real-world programming task. And if I switch tabs to view a paper from 2008, then a song from 2008 could start up.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Tools like Jekyll, Hugo, and 11ty dominate this camp, letting you turn a directory of markdown and liquid files into a fully-functional website. If you’re just breaking down your site into bite-sized components or design system elements, templates like Pug work pretty well too! Key benefits: Shallow learning curve. Fast build times.

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