Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

The State Of Web Workers In 2021. The State Of Web Workers In 2021. 2021-06-30T12:00:00+00:00. 2021-07-13T02:07:04+00:00. iOS empowers developers to easily parallelize code using Grand Central Dispatch , Android does this via their new, unified task scheduler WorkManager and game engines like Unity have job systems.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. 2021-12-17T14:30:00+00:00. 2021-12-17T17:34:45+00:00. A human-machine interface (HMI) is an interface that allows us to interact with a digital system. Nick Babich & Gleb Kuznetsov.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

If you start catching bugs early, it will save you tons of time fixing them later.nn> Design reviewnnIt’s a very powerful tool when used in a good way. I really like what one of the smartest people with whom I worked said: “A good design is a design where you can see the code”. You may think that you know how the system works.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt). Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt). 2021-12-15T11:30:00+00:00. 2021-12-15T13:06:33+00:00. Most project teams, designers, and even governments are quite dismissive of this half of the world, but we shouldn’t be.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Organizations use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. G2 Research includes a clear definition of APM in its Grid Report for Application Performance Monitoring for Spring 2021. The Dynatrace approach: APM and beyond.

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Some of the benefits organizations seek from digital transformation journeys include the following: Increased DevOps automation and efficiency. Digital tools and technologies provide a more efficient way of doing things. It often involves replacing legacy systems and workflows that have been in place for years or even decades.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language. They still will win for mission-critical or real-time systems, which need performance over these parameters. In Byteland they have a very strange monetary system.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Details pertaining to HDR-VMAF exceed the scope of this article and will be covered in a future blog post; for now, suffice it to say that the first version of HDR-VMAF landed internally in 2021 and we have been improving the metric ever since. The arrival of HDR-VMAF allowed us to create HDR streams with DO applied, i.e., HDR-DO encodes.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. 2021-01-11T15:30:13+00:00. 2021-01-11T16:06:07+00:00. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term. Vitaly Friedman.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 1, 2022

Kubernetes was initially designed with a strong focus on stateless workloads, meaning these workloads do not need to store any persistent data. Interestingly, our partner RedHat reported in 2021 that around 80% of deployed workloads are databases or data caches, storing data in persistent volume claims (PVCs). Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2022

SREs improve the reliability of production systems, and reducing mean-time-to-repair (MTTR) is their top priority. While increasing automation is a key goal, organizations will lose their derived efficiency if enablement is arduous and time-consuming. As a result, they must build a layer of automation on top of their tooling.

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Testsigma

JUNE 26, 2021

If we talk about testing itself — automation has taken us several leaps ahead; QA teams have solidified test efficiency and coverage even further. As per Onometra’s software testing trends for 2021 , codeless automation testing will witness an increase. Get efficient test automation being codeless with Testsigma.

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Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Our virtual 2021 We continue to have the same priorities and the same schedule we originally adopted for C++23. However, since the pandemic began, WG21 and its subgroups have had to meet all-virtually via Zoom, and we are not going to try to have a face-to-face meeting in 2021 (see What’s Next below).

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

But because of the complexity involved in executing and analyzing test results of dynamic systems, performance engineering is difficult to scale — especially with lean staff or resources. Many organizations are looking for efficient ways to run more tests in less time.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

However, to be secure, containers must be properly isolated from each other and from the host system itself. Network scanners that see systems from the “outside” perspective. These products see systems from the “outside” perspective—which is to say, the attacker’s perspective. Source code tests.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

But managing the breadth of the vulnerabilities that can put your systems at risk is challenging. Security vulnerabilities are weaknesses in applications, operating systems, networks, and other IT services and infrastructure that would allow an attacker to compromise a system, steal data, or otherwise disrupt IT operations.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

These APIs shift the complexity of building and configuring APIs from the user to the system. Then, the system automatically determines how to achieve it, dramatically reducing deployment times and the risk of errors. The effect is to turbocharge developer collaboration, efficiency, and productivity. Declarative APIs.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

This methodology aims to improve software system reliability using several key categories such as availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, and incident response. DevOps is a tactical approach to creating and delivering software designed to close the gap between development and IT operations. What is DevOps?

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This gives us access to Netflix’s Java ecosystem, while also giving us the robust language features such as coroutines for efficient parallel fetches, and an expressive type system with null safety. The schema registry also integrates with our CI/CD systems like Spinnaker to automatically setup cloud networking for DGSs.

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Dynatrace

MAY 4, 2021

million per year just “keeping the lights on,” with 63% of CIOs surveyed across five continents calling out complexity as their biggest barrier to controlling costs and improving efficiency. According to the Dynatrace 2020 Global CIO Report , companies now spend an average of $4.8

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Percona

APRIL 28, 2023

With the code open to all, it’s truly transparent ( DevOps.com, April 2021 ); security is scrutinized, and vulnerabilities are addressed by experts globally. A 2021 Red Hat survey showed that 89% of IT leaders see enterprise open source software as equally or more secure than proprietary software. That’s not so.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Not only will they get much more out of the tools they use daily, but they’ll also be able to deliver superior functionality, efficiency, and performance to your customers. In addition, 45% of them have gone on to implement efficiencies in their roles, and 43% reported they were able to do their job more quickly after getting certified.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This blog was originally published in Sept 2021 and was updated in November 2023. It encompasses the PostgreSQL server software, along with an execution environment, essential system tools, libraries, and configurations. ” We intend to show how to bring up PostgreSQL instance(s) into Docker containers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

Background The Media Cloud Engineering and Encoding Technologies teams at Netflix jointly operate a system to process incoming media files from our partners and studios to make them playable on all devices. The first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007. Delivery?—?A

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

2021-09-21T11:30:00+00:00. 2021-09-21T12:08:01+00:00. I couldn’t start my system anymore. All and all, it took me days to get back to the system I had before the crash. I can reinstall my whole system with a bunch of scripts I’ve written, including all the tools I use and their configurations. Matthieu Cneude.

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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. In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

2021-06-08T12:00:00+00:00. 2021-06-08T14:53:55+00:00. To be effective, all these images need to be carefully orchestrated to appear on the screen fast — but as it turns out, loading images efficiently at scale isn’t a project for a quiet afternoon. Keeping this efficient helps ensure a good user experience.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The predominant desktop situation is relatively straightforward: Browsers handle links, and non-browsers defer loading http and https URLs to the system, which in turn invokes the default browser. Instead, they load content referred by their hosting native app in system-provided WebViews. The Baseline Scenario #.

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Testsigma

JUNE 26, 2021

MarketQuest (2021) predicts automation testing to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 9.8% In all honesty, it wasn’t always practical or simple, but with codeless test automation – test automation that does not require learning to code – testers can now focus on what’s crucial: shipping efficient products.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

2021-04-28T13:20:00+00:00. 2021-04-28T14:35:12+00:00. To be effective, all these images need to be carefully orchestrated to appear on the screen fast — but as it turns out, loading images efficiently at scale isn’t a project for a quiet afternoon. Keeping this efficient helps ensure a good user experience. Print + eBook.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

There are roughly 50 performance tests, each one designed to reproduce an aspect of member engagement. In March 2021 we still used static thresholds for regression alerts. By October 2021 we had switched using anomaly detection for regression alerts. the data itself now sets the thresholds dynamically.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

2021-06-25T10:00:00+00:00. 2021-07-13T02:07:04+00:00. The business world today is obsessed with user experience (UX) design. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. These heuristics are well-recognized UX guidelines — the bible, if you will, for any UX designer. Mark Lankmilier. So, welcome to my edX audit.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Practitioners use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. Even a conflict with the operating system or the specific device being used to access the app can degrade an application’s performance. APM’s many forms. Leading vendors in the APM 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. All these SPAs are one of the top website development trends as of 2021, and it is expected to be continued in 2022. E-commerce companies investing in PWA 2021 Statista.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Higher is better. CSS Custom Paint.

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