Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. When a company’s digital representation lacks a dedicated UX/UI design team, it can be hard to produce something that stands out from the crowd. That’s why you need a good UI/UX designer. Nataliya Sambir. And vice versa.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is 5 Nines Availability?In However, consumers often prioritize availability in many systems. Furthermore, there are many recognized standards to measure the availability of a service or system, and the most common one is to measure it as a percentage."Five This level of availability equates to only about 5.26

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is 5 Nines Availability?In However, consumers often prioritize availability in many systems. Furthermore, there are many recognized standards to measure the availability of a service or system, and the most common one is to measure it as a percentage."Five This level of availability equates to only about 5.26

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 13, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. I hate to admit it, but five or six years ago my interest in web design started to wane. Web design had stagnated, predictability had replaced creativity, and ideas seemed less important than data. Design had lost its joyfulness.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral. Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral. Local bands designed their own publicity and the mostly two-colour artwork was edgy and unpolished. Previously On “Inspired Design Decisions”. Andrew Clarke.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. It’s architecture was specially designed to manage large-scale data warehouses and business intelligence workloads by giving you the ability to spread your data out across a multitude of servers. At a glance – TLDR.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 21, 2020

Before jumping into either of those scenarios, have a look at what Strategic Domain-Driven Design can offer you. High-level Process Sections Conceptually, there are three major sections to a modernisation process. This means a software architecture should be purposely designed for the most favourable business consequences.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

From Good To Great In Dashboard Design: Research, Decluttering And Data Viz. From Good To Great In Dashboard Design: Research, Decluttering And Data Viz. Tossing out suboptimal parts of our design can be a daunting task, especially after you’ve invested hours of work into it. Mediocre vs Great Dashboard Design.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Since its inception , Metaflow has been designed to provide a human-friendly API for building data and ML (and today AI) applications and deploying them in our production infrastructure frictionlessly. In this article, we cover a few key integrations that we provide for various layers of the Metaflow stack at Netflix, as illustrated above.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. UX design teams are passionate about our approach to solving problems and providing users with experiences that lead to their desired outcomes. I believe concept testing is a pivotal part of the up-front UX process.

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Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. It became clear that real-time query processing and in-stream processing is the immediate need in many practical applications. Fault-tolerance. Interoperability with Hadoop.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available. Spoiler alert: This post focuses on MongoDB 3.6.X 25.84 - Total 21.04

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Responsive design is an approach to design websites such that it responds well on all screen sizes, platforms, and orientations. This approach eliminates the need to design a new set of code for each new device. Excellent customer support with 24×7 availability. Parallel automated testing for large test suites.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography. Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Andrew Clarke.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. In this episode, we’re talking about designing for safety. What does it mean to consider vulnerable users in our designs? Design for Safety from A Book Apart. Drew McLellan.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

This article will explore how they handle data storage and scalability, perform in different scenarios, and, most importantly, how these factors influence your choice. Redis Data Types and Structures The design of Redis’s data structures emphasizes versatility.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Development Process. Development Process. Note: This article is aimed at both beginners and seasoned developers who want to better their Vue.js In a traditional app where we have signup, logins, or product page we want to have consistent behavior and design. UI kit built upon material design. Uma Victor.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Ernest Journal. Inspired Design Decisions: Ernest Journal. When you work in design for any length of time, forming habits is natural. It’s not unusual to follow a predictable process or use familiar patterns. Andrew Clarke. 2019-08-08T13:00:59+02:00. 2019-08-08T12:09:06+00:00.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. Predictive analytics, powered by AI, enhance business processes and optimize resource allocation according to workload demands.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 8, 2024

This article delivers a practical roadmap for using backups and binary logs to achieve accurate MySQL recovery, detailed steps for setting up your server, and tips for managing recovery and backups effectively without overwhelming you with complexity. Three distinct modes are available within MySQL when setting up your binary logs’ format.

Database 162

Database Strategy Servers Best Practices 162

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

” Meaning, you don’t need to worry about OneAgent updates because they’re performed automatically, safely, and promptly as soon as new versions are available (no manual effort required). Please note that the OneAgent update process may require that the injected OneAgent modules (for Java,Net, Apache, etc.)

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HDR was launched at Netflix in 2016 and the number of titles available in HDR has been growing ever since. Bitrate versus quality comparison HDR-VMAF is designed to be format-agnostic — it measures the perceptual quality of HDR video signal regardless of its container format, for example, Dolby Vision or HDR10. The graphic below (Fig.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 28, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Emmett McBain: Art Direction As Social Equity. Inspired Design Decisions With Emmett McBain: Art Direction As Social Equity. He knew that to sell his clients’ products, his designs needed to resonate with Black audiences, by showing images they related to and language which was familiar to them.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

You can view the original article on Ably's blog. In this article, we discuss the concepts of dependability and fault tolerance in detail and explain how the Ably platform is designed with fault tolerant approaches to uphold its dependability guarantees. Availability and Reliability are forms of dependability.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Alexey Brodovitch. Inspired Design Decisions: Alexey Brodovitch. Before writing Art Direction for the Web , I began to study Alexey Brodovitch when I became fascinated by editorial and magazine design. This book will make a fabulous addition to your design collection. Andrew Clarke.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. All rely heavily on utilizing allocated portions from existing pools made available through specific providers as part of their service offerings.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form. Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form. With one or two occasional exceptions, I’ve spent the past twenty-two years designing for countless clients. I know many designers who work in-house.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Manual curation and review of these high quality images from scratch for a growing catalog of titles can be particularly challenging for our Product Creative Strategy Producers (referred to as producers in the rest of the article). The artwork generated by this pipeline is used to augment the artwork typically sourced from design agencies.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 27, 2018

This is article was written by Dirceu Pereira Tiegs, Site Reliability Engineer at Auth0, and originally was originally published in Auth0. We designed Auth0 from the beginning so that it could run anywhere: on our cloud, on your cloud, or even on your own private infrastructure. A lot has changed since then in Auth0.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

In this article, we will explain the multi-cloud challenges and explain how using multiple cloud services can make your business more adaptable, ensure that your operations continue without interruption, and help you control your spending. They simplify how you orchestrate everything across the diverse ecosystem of cloud services.

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Percona

MAY 29, 2023

With the Percona Operators, businesses can manage multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud PostgreSQL deployments with ease, ensuring that critical data is always available and secure, no matter what happens. In this article, you will learn how to set up disaster recovery with Percona Operator for PostgreSQL version 2.

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Storage Cloud Network Traffic 120

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

This article was inspired by an email I received from Thomas Reisenbichler , Director of Autonomous Cloud Enablement on Friday, June 11 th. The subject line said: “Success Story: Major Issue in single AWS Frankfurt Availability Zone!” Fact #4: Multi-node, multi-availability zone deployment architecture. Ready to learn more?

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Max Huber: Turning Mundane Subjects Into Exciting Visual Communication. Inspired Design Decisions With Max Huber: Turning Mundane Subjects Into Exciting Visual Communication. Even highly regarded, well-known designers spent time working with mundane subjects and produced iconic work. Andrew Clarke.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. However, their focus has always been on making a great-looking and effective design. Suzanne Scacca.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

Designing For Micro-Moments. Designing For Micro-Moments. A couple of years ago, Google announced a new mobile-first initiative it wanted web designers and marketers to pick up on. In Myriam Jessier’s " Things Designers Should Know About SEO In 2018 ", she sums up Google’s four micro-moments: “I want to know.”. “I

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Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

This is the question I get asked the most, so I’ve put together this article describing a workshop recipe you can use. In Domain-Driven Design, a large system is decomposed into bounded contexts , which become natural boundaries in code as microservices and as teams in the organisation. 30 minutes) Bounded Context Design Canvas (min.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

That article was a deep dive into one of the more technical aspects of Dataflow and didn’t properly introduce this tool in the first place. It’s designed to run for a single date, and meant to be called from the daily or backfill workflows. This allows other processes, consuming our table, to be notified and start their processing.

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