The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A vital aspect of such development is subjective testing with HDR encodes in order to generate training data. The pandemic, however, posed unique challenges in conducting a conventional in-lab subjective test with HDR encodes. This is achieved by more efficiently spacing the ladder points, especially in the high-bitrate region.

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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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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. Testing And Monitoring Auditing workflow, proxy browsers, 404 page, GDPR cookie consent prompts, performance diagnostics CSS, accessibility. Vitaly Friedman. Quick Wins.

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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. No matter what HMI we design, we need to allow users to take advantage of all that a system has to offer. What Is HMI? Large preview ).

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

G2 Research includes a clear definition of APM in its Grid Report for Application Performance Monitoring for Spring 2021. ” APM vendors originally designed their solutions to quickly identify application performance issues in monolithic on-premises apps. User experience diagnostics. Insight into business KPIs.

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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. Though I have spent the last ~17 years (In 2021) of my life coding and perfecting my Java and J2EE skill — I suddenly feel. Ahem, Slow! But you can not buy Bytelandian coins.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Their design emphasizes increasing availability by spreading out files among different nodes or servers — this approach significantly reduces risks associated with losing or corrupting data due to node failure. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Automating tasks throughout the SDLC helps software development and operations teams collaborate while continuously improving how they design, build, test, deploy, release, and monitor software applications. It helps to assess the long- and short-term efficiency and speed of DevOps. Less complexity in software releases.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

It’s A (Front-End Testing) Trap! Six Common Testing Pitfalls And How To Solve Them. It’s A (Front-End Testing) Trap! Six Common Testing Pitfalls And How To Solve Them. 2021-07-01T12:30:00+00:00. 2021-07-13T02:07:04+00:00. All right, but what does this have to do with testing? Front-End Testing Traps.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2022

While increasing automation is a key goal, organizations will lose their derived efficiency if enablement is arduous and time-consuming. If SRE teams don’t identify a more efficient approach to DevOps from day one, they will undoubtedly find more of their time drained in the future. A shift to SRE-driven engineering takes hold.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

2021-11-08T14:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-08T19:34:34+00:00. But then, quickly advances to contextual pricing, juggling complexity of large and frequently updated product catalog, managing continuously running multivariate tests and promotion campaigns, and serving customer-tailored dynamic recommendations. Oct 25 – Nov 8, 2021.

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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% That brings us to the crux of our conversation — codeless test automation. In the past, it was always important for testers to learn to code and keep updating their skills for performing automation tests.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Four types of tools are commonly used to detect software vulnerabilities: Source-code tests that are used in development environments. Source code tests. Products that scan source code before the container is built are known as Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools and Static Application Security Test (SAST) tools.

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Enprowess

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Ease of Testing. Bloomberg – Efficient, simple-to-access, personalized content for end-users with automatic code refreshing options. On comparing Flutter and React Native 2021 statistics, we find that Flutter has become a more popular framework among developers. – An overview. Performance comparison. Application architecture.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

While there are multiple ways to define cloud-native architecture, a consensus has formed around the following characteristics: Designed for automation. Organizations can shift development, testing, and delivery as needed between teams and geographies. Teams can assemble prebuilt components without needing long testing times.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

With 2021 set to be a new high for the number of data breaches , it was plainly evident that we needed to evolve how we approach our cloud infrastructure security strategy. We knew that given our scale, we needed to rely heavily on automations and that we needed to build our solutions using battle tested scalable infrastructure.

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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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Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

If you’ve been performing on-premise testing in your organization, you know the rules already. But for the uninitiated, on-premise testing is a form of testing where testers perform tests on local machines, systems, or devices set up at an office. On-premise testing comes with a lot of responsibility.

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Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2022

People spent USD $170 billion through mobile applications only in 2021. Therefore, as a developer and a tester, it becomes a highly responsible job to test these mobile applications and deliver the best quality. This post is about a few sections that need to be tested thoroughly as they are critical to the business.

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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. These Docker containers provide an isolated environment for the database, guaranteeing uniformity across various stages such as development, testing, and production, independent of the base infrastructure.

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The process of web development has changed its meaning in the time span of twenty years ( 2000 to 2021). I am sure people at that time had not heard about cross-browser testing. All these changes made one concrete effect on the testing world. They made cross-browser testing essential. What is cross-browser testing?

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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. Sometimes you will find that enterprises have designed their own frameworks to deal with their targetted goals and missions. What does enterprise mean from a tester’s POV?

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Testsigma

MARCH 24, 2021

The game currently offers a single playing mode that just includes Melee weapons and boxing, which is something very basic for the year 2021. Such case studies uplift the importance of a better user interface and hence the importance of the user interface testing, or UI testing. Android UI Testing and Its Types.

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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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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

2021-10-26T10:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-26T15:38:33+00:00. Nx is an open-source build framework that helps you architect, test, and build at any scale — integrating seamlessly with modern technologies and libraries, while providing a robust command-line interface (CLI), caching, and dependency management. Optimizing Next.js

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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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O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

There have also been colorful conversations about whether GPT-3 can pass the Turing test, or whether it has achieved a notional understanding of consciousness, even amongst AI scientists who know the technical mechanics. Indeed, Google recently announced LaMDA , a model at GPT-3 scale that is designed to participate in conversations.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

Engineering is the discipline of designing solutions under specific constraints. As we said in 2021, " 4G is a miracle, 5G is a mirage." India's speed test medians are moving quickly, but variance is orders-of-magnitude wide, with 5G penetration below 25% in the most populous areas. You'll have to read on for what it is!

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Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

This prevents bad practices like code duplication and simplifies unit testing by many miles. Usage of Virtual DOM allows efficient rendering where only certain part of webpage is rerendered speeding up performance. VueJS can be used to create Single Page Apps efficiently with fewer resources evident from its tiny package size.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in November 2021 and was updated in September 2023. Additionally, they enable the implementation of sophisticated business logic within the database, streamlining repetitive tasks and enhancing overall efficiency. However, they can also introduce performance bottlenecks, especially if poorly designed.

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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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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Thanks to the Web Platform Tests project and wpt.fyi , we have the makings of an answer for the first: Tests that fail only in a given browser. wpt.fyi 's new Compat 2021 dashboard narrows this full range of tests to a subset chosen to represent the most painful compatibility bugs : Stable-channel Compat 2021 results over time.

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Percona

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL installs PostgreSQL and complements it with a selection of extensions that enable solving essential practical tasks efficiently. It is a single solution with the best and most critical enterprise components from the MySQL open-source community, designed and tested to work together.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

2021-11-03T11:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-03T15:30:38+00:00. Though, this means you get to monitor the continuous integration and testing of your application with confidence in real-time. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Email Newsletter with useful tips on front-end, design & UX. Ikeh Akinyemi. More after jump!

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

They can be designed to execute all types of tasks from complex to simple ones. Also known as Weak AI, the machines are designed to perform a specific set of tasks. It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate. Example: Testsigma ’s simple scriptless approach to testing.

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