The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Here we describe the role of Experimentation and A/B testing within the larger Data Science and Engineering organization at Netflix, including how our platform investments support running tests at scale while enabling innovation. What more can we learn from this test, to inform the next one?”

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 19, 2020

STELLA: report from the SNAFU-catchers workshop on coping with complexity , Woods 2017, Coping with Complexity workshop. Today’s choice is a report from a 2017 workshop convened with that title, and recommended to me by John Allspaw – thank you John! Workshop context. What happens during an incident.

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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. Jump to online workshops ?. Design Patterns Game. Image source: Design Patterns Game ). CSS Flexbox.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 25, 2020

If you’re looking for remote opportunities to work on challenging projects in complex domains with a great group of people who have strong knowledge of DDD (Domain-Driven Design) and continuously improving, don’t hesitate to get in touch with Software Park. E.g. Flaky UI tests Opportunity (Green)?—?an tells the story of the process.

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Transportation Design Processing Programming 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

All industries have a part to play, and that includes web design and development. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Tech News Gather

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

This is crucial to remember that there are already just again several select recruitment advertisements regarding prominent positions available. Given the abundance of available non-fungible token positions, it’s also challenging to predict certificated token expert salaries accurately. Final words .

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

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. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smart Interface Design Patterns , with Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Lots can go wrong: a network request fails, a third-party library breaks, a JavaScript feature is unsupported (assuming JavaScript is even available), a CDN goes down, a user behaves unexpectedly (they double-click a submit button), the list goes on. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

They were designed to provide a way to execute JavaScript code in the background, separate from the main execution thread of a web page, in order to improve performance and responsiveness. Web Workers are designed to perform tasks that do not require direct access to the UI, such as data processing, image manipulation, or calculations.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 23, 2022

Some answers from the community surprised me, as they’ve included some very useful and often-requested CSS features which were made available in the past year or two. Whenever we export an icon from a design tool, it comes with a specific fill and other color values defined in the design. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

The design was made by a design and UX agency that also handled the HTML prototype (based on Bootstrap 4). For the launch, we mostly focused on getting the new design out the door, but once the website’s relaunch went live, we started focusing our attention on turning the red and orange scores to greens. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

To achieve it, Rauno uses an experimental CSS property element() to display a live image from an arbitrary HTML element (which currently only available in Firefox). When designing cards, you might want a border-radius to have a quite sizeable value when there is enough space to display it along with other cards. Jump to the workshop ?.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Meet Smashing Workshops on front-end, design & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Jump to the workshops ↬ Using CDN For Caching And WebP For Lighter File Sizes As I mentioned a little earlier, our stack includes Sanity’s CMS. It’s available on the web , Android, and iOS.

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Cache Strategy Best Practices Design 72

O'Reilly Software

MAY 15, 2018

Whether it’s dev, staging, testing, or production, developers need assurance that the code they deploy to one environment is going to work in another. Developers at the "Istio Hands-on Workshop" at KubeCon in Copenhagen. This, in turn, helps teams fully utilize all available capacity to consistently run systems at scale.

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Development Media Google Network 73

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Design The Perfect Navigation , with Vitaly Friedman. Jump to the workshop ?. This approach, however, is far from perfect as there is a delay between the page’s first render and the wildcard being available. The live version is available at [link] and the source code can be found at [link].

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2021

For testing on your local PC, I’d recommend the module live-server , which you can install via npm. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Code Servers Development Availability 139

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

We were designing and building things, setting up new products, refactoring the components, and publishing articles. Throughout the workshop, I was diligently taking notes and revisiting the codebase. Once the workshop was over, we got to work. Image source: Lighthouse Metrics ) ( Large preview ). Identifying The Bottlenecks.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. More after jump! With Carie Fisher, Stefan Baumgartner and so many others. Performance Costs.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2021

Although completing a story may require contribution from people in different roles - QA analyst and developer and experience designer, for example - each person is still responsible for the entire outcome of the story. An Agile story is an expression of end-to-end business need. Good managers know how to work the problem and solution space.

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Metrics Design Engineering C++ 52

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

For example, a newer software version of Kakadu demo apps is available compared to the one in the framework snapshot on github used at the time of gathering below results. Following are the codecs and/or configurations tested and reported against the baseline in the form of BD rate.

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John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

This was a keynote presentation at the “2nd International Workshop on Performance Modeling: Methods and Applications” (PMMA16), June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany (in conjunction with ISC16 ). Over time, the mechanisms introduced for reducing energy consumption (first in laptops) became available more broadly.

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Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

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. Jump to the workshop ?. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-08-05T13:30:00+00:00. Let’s fix that!

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Jos

APRIL 6, 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”. progress * 4 ) } workshops · { Math. for some inspiration :).

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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”. progress * 4 ) } workshops · { Math.

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Code Performance Google Media 130

Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

Email Testing Flow As It Should Be. Email Testing Flow As It Should Be. By testing every single email aspect! Unfortunately, email testing is often underestimated and leads to email testing mistakes that kill all your effort spent on creating a great email sequence. Let’s talk email testing! More after jump!

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Testing Servers Social Media Automotive 109

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I also learned how marketing worked, and began to build my presentation and training skills as I was sent around the world by Sun to teach workshops and speak at events. At one point we had two conflicting high availability products from different teams, who weren’t cooperating.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 13, 2018

Most ideas and designs aren’t good, and most of the ones we eventually accept don’t start good. A venue outside a chartered Working Group in which to design and iterate. I’ve never witnessed early design work go well without in-person collaboration. …at least early on. Face-to-face deliberation.

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Design Engineering Processing Games 40

Smashing Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Maintaining End-To-End Quality With Visual Testing. Maintaining End-To-End Quality With Visual Testing. Testing is a critical part of any developer’s workflow. But often automated tests can be a pain to manage. A Quick Look At Some Of The Types Of Automated Testing. Colby Fayock. 2021-07-19T10:30:00+00:00.

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Testing Code Design Strategy 141

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.

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Strategy Testing Best Practices Code 132

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

With Moore’s Law becoming irrelevant, Asanovic made a strong case for the new vertical semiconductor business model where custom chip designs are needed for vertically integrated markets. In particular, she highlighted her transformative MIT’78 VLSI System Design Course she designed and taught as a Visiting Professor of EECS at MIT.

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Hardware Architecture Programming Innovation 18

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In the real world, content often differs vastly from the neat, perfectly fitting content presented in designs. In this article, we’ll walk through the process of taking a seemingly simple design for a text-and-media component and deciding how best to translate it into code, keeping in mind the needs of both users and content authors.

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Development Media Design Mobile 139

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The “Changes” panel should be already available by default and next to the “Computed” tab. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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Design Availability Mobile Website 145

Smashing Magazine

JULY 14, 2021

Frustrating Design Patterns: Broken Filters. Frustrating Design Patterns: Broken Filters. Part Of: Design Patterns. Designing For The Comfortable Range. We do so by breaking our intent down into a set of available features. A well-designed filter in a well-designed trip planner UI. Vitaly Friedman.

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2014

"Increasing numbers of people who had formerly been self-employed in workshops and cottage industry, often on a subcontracting basis, assumed new roles as part of an emerging wage-earning class. The economics of this arrangement favor the few who design over the many who build.

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Software Software Development Retail 49

Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

Component-based design, enabled and enforced by modern JavaScript frameworks, does not only provide great developer experiences and project ergonomics when used in a smart way, but it can also offer advantages for accessibility. With best practices and guidelines on accessibility, assistive technology and inclusive design patterns.

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Strategy Virtualization Government Education 140

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2021

We’ll use auto-fit so that items can fit into the available space, but restrict themselves from shrinking under a certain width. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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Media Design Code Internet 117

Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

The case for accessibility is this; we as stakeholders, managers, teams, designers and developers need to do better in not only practicing accessibility but advocating for it as well. Of the 1 million home pages that were tested, over 51 million errors were detected averaging 51.4 Inclusive design and accessibility go hand-in-hand.

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