O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. I'm offering an overview of my perspective on the field, which I hope is a unique and interesting take on it, in order to provide context for the work at hand: devising a winning technology strategy for your business.

Strategy 100

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

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.

Design 113

Design Website Efficiency Games 113

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

This article strips away the complexities, walking you through best practices, top tools, and strategies you’ll need for a well-defended cloud infrastructure. Of course, this is only true if the native solutions are used within the corresponding environment.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2020

Microservice design principles force people to think along a spectrum of loose coupling. Introduces the Dynatrace long-term design pattern for full-stack observability, described below. Cloud-native software design, much like microservices architecture, is founded on the premise of speed to delivery via phases, or iterations.

Government 163

Government Innovation Strategy Speed 163

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. As a result, she came back to me concerned with publishing a post on a strategy her agency had yet to adopt successfully.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

While working on my PhD in political science, I realized my curiosity was always more piqued by methodological coursework, which led me to take as many stats/data science courses as I could. Working on my PhD, I was using optimization techniques to design radiotherapy fractionation schemes to improve the results of clinical practices.

Analytics 207

Analytics C++ Innovation Engineering 207

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

JavaScript Design Patterns. Knights of the Flexbox Table is another well-designed interactive course to help you learn the different aspects of the flexbox specification. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. The course includes 10 chapters, each broken down into various levels, some as many as 20-26 levels.

Development 145

Development Games Education Programming 145

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A Dedicated Log Volume (DLV) is a specialized storage volume designed to house database transaction logs separately from the volume containing the database tables. This ensures that the advantages of DLV extend to enhanced availability and reliability in Multi-AZ configurations. What is a Dedicated Log Volume (DLV)?

AWS 96

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 96

O'Reilly

JULY 18, 2023

How should you teach students in your classes knowing that these AI tools are widely available? We wanted to know: How are computing instructors planning to adapt their courses as more and more students start using AI coding assistance tools such as ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot? I’m Sam Lau from UC San Diego, and my Ph.D.

Programming 61

Programming Education Code Strategy 61

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

At the limit, statically generated, edge delivered, and HTML-first pages look like the optimal strategy. Surveying the existing landscape of available developer tools and runtimes, we felt that there is a gap. And, of course, the result needs to be seamless and delightful — dare we say, even fun — to develop and maintain.

Cache 136

Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 136

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Once that base is set, you’ll learn how to use shadows to evoke depth, elevate elements, and inset them, how to layer shadows, and, of course, which CSS property to use for which use case. The spacing would need to be defined in relative units, of course, that might be a bit difficult to get right across screens. More after jump!

Games 144

Games Design Strategy Code 144

Tech News Gather

JUNE 1, 2023

Of course, as a developer, you have to prefer the best framework to develop apps faster. Faster Development Time With the help of no-code development, the time for app design would be doubled. Of course, the developers have to notice the performance rate and development time. They are mainly focusing on nontechnical outcomes.

Code 52

Code Development Innovation Efficiency 52

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Backup types and strategies It all begins with choosing a strategy, and that depends on factors such as the use and importance of data to your business, your recovery time objectives (RTO), and your budget. Choosing the right backup frequency: The appropriate frequency, of course, will vary from one organization to another.

Database 87

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 87

Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

of respondents have adopted a hybrid cloud strategy. A recent report by RightScale found that 69% of businesses have adopted a hybrid cloud strategy by combining both public clouds and private clouds. of PostgreSQL deployments were leveraging a multi-cloud strategy. PostgreSQL of course came in first with 85.9%

Database 185

Database Cloud Open Source Azure 185

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Compatibility Open source databases are designed with interoperability at their core, adhering to industry standards and offering support for a wide range of data import and export formats. Strategy: Choosing your path Having a strategy for your migration will make the move to open source go that much smoother.

Open Source 91

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 91

Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2020

O ne of the principles behind the design of Kubernetes is to always look at optimiz ing the utilization of compute resources by the workload. Of course , you might think, Kubernetes has auto-scaling capabilities so wh y should I bother about resource s ? But of course, there are many others. .

Infrastructure 196

Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud Metrics 196

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

DRM-free, of course. Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Packed with useful tips and techniques , the book has a sharp focus on practical application and longevity of your image optimization strategies. Designed by Espen Brunborg and Nadia Snopek.

Media 93

Media Cache Google Best Practices 93

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

DRM-free, of course. Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Packed with useful tips and techniques , the book has a sharp focus on practical application and longevity of your image optimization strategies. DRM-free, of course. ePUB, Kindle, PDF.

Media 106

Media Cache Google Best Practices 106

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

There was no appetite from them to do so, so I decided to make it all available for free anyway—a faster web benefits everyone. The implication here is that we’ve now rendered any font-loading strategies completely ineffective: font-display can’t work if there are no fonts; the Font Loading API is useless if there are no fonts.

Latency 203

Latency Cache Strategy Media 203

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Options 1 and 2 are of course the ‘scale out’ options, whereas option 3 is ‘scale up’. With more nodes and more coordination comes more complexity, both in design and operation. One of the joys of this paper is that you don’t just get to see the final design, you also get insight into the forces and trade-offs that led to it.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. EBS uses chain replication for availability, with data flowing from client to primary to replica. NSDI’20.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 21, 2020

if anomalies are recognised during the course of monitoring, those observation are fed back into response planning. One of these strategies is to use heuristics. Availability – choosing by how easily the option comes to mind. Preventative design is not enough.

Internet 98

Internet Internet Strategy Energy 98

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

In fact, we had to look into various cases for the form design: What happens when no data is provided at all? Given that a vast majority of our readers — wonderful people like you — are using autofill, it’s worth spending time designing an experience around it. Designing The Perfect Navigation. UX, Design.

Mobile 140

Mobile Design Cache Code 140

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

MySQL replication provides high availability, load balancing, and data redundancy, enhancing system reliability. Replication also provides for data availability by enabling failover to a replica in case the primary server becomes unavailable. What are the potential advantages and disadvantages of MySQL Replication?

Servers 52

Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

In a separate sheet—available at the same link as before —I’ve simply graphed the data by page type. Of course, it’s a little more complex than that, but for this exercise it’s an incredibly reliable proxy. Everything else is a shade in between, and at this stage offers no real insights. Visualising the Data.

Speed 292

Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics 292

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The emergence of DevOps and continuous integration (CI) and continuous development (CD) pipelines has fundamentally changed the nature of software design, development, and deployment. Specific metrics to measure include current pods, available pods, unavailable pods, and current node conditions. OpenShift, DevOps, and CI/CD.

Monitoring 147

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

Particular Software

JULY 18, 2022

While Kafka can deal with high traffic volumes, the right partition strategy is a key factor and will have a major impact on the scalability and elasticity of the whole system. The answer, of course, is neither. After a given message has been successfully processed, it’s no longer available to any consumers. ??

Transportation 98

Transportation Azure Processing Systems 98

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2020

Yet the availability of electronic vehicles for sale has far outstripped the demand for the vehicles themselves. Unfortunately, that volume is staying on manufacturer and dealer balance sheets, because legacy automakers are designing and building EVs that few want to buy. The macro strategy risks are almost too obvious to point out.

Innovation 52

Innovation Automotive Transportation Strategy 52

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Over the course of this post, we will talk about our approach to this migration, the strategies that we employed, and the tools we built to support this. ecosystem and the rich selection of npm packages available. This allowed Android engineers to have much more control and observability over how we get our data.

Latency 233

Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

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. Performance Budgets, Pragmatically shows you a strategy to achieve that.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). In this article, we’ll take a deep dive into the refactoring process itself, and cover incremental refactoring strategy, visual regression testing, and maintaining the refactored codebase.

Strategy 132

Strategy Testing Best Practices Code 132

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Whilst I believe Scrapbook handles this update well, it’s an important consideration when designing your user’s experience. There are of course some places where you won’t want to use SWR or to use SWR without ISR. Now we’ve explored the theory of this strategy, let’s explore how we put it into practise. More after jump!

Cache 103

Cache Internet Internet Servers 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2022

Some companies may insert a design/research spike just before the epic kicks off but it always feels reactionary and ends up being a hack shortcut. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. Your pit crew should be available for quick, pointed input.

Design 93

Design Logistics Strategy Benchmarking 93

Particular Software

JUNE 3, 2019

The availability of bandwidth increases at a staggering rate, but we're never happy. From Udi Dahan's Advanced Distributed Systems Design Course , Day 1 Problem of scale The real problem with bandwidth is not one of absolute speed but one of scale. Today, we have DSL and cable modems; tomorrow, fiber may be widespread.

Latency 40

Latency Speed Network Strategy 40

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

It describes the labs environment, DSLabs , developed at the University of Washington to accompany a course in distributed systems. During the ten week course, students implement four different assignments: an exactly-once RPC protocol; a primary-backup system; Paxos; and a scalable, transactional key-value storage system.

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

But that won’t solve the ordering issue of course. In this section we argue that this back-end design approach is slowing progress in the maintainability, debuggability, and expressiveness of programming models. Recall that back ends are structured around calls to large monolithic kernels.

Systems 87

Systems Tuning Programming Innovation 87

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. After all, as designers and developers, we want to make it more difficult for our users to make mistakes. Part Of: Design Patterns. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-08-05T13:30:00+00:00. 2021-08-05T17:04:11+00:00. Part 1: Perfect Accordion.

Design 145

Design Transportation Code Systems 145