The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2021

ConsoleMe: A Central Control Plane for AWS Permissions and Access By Curtis Castrapel , Patrick Sanders , and Hee Won Kim At AWS re:Invent 2020, we open sourced two new tools for managing multi-account AWS permissions and access. A quick start guide is available in our documentation. If you missed the talk, check it out here.

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Percona

AUGUST 3, 2023

Suppose you have SELECT * queries in your application code. As an experienced database developer, you should know that these kinds of queries should not exist in any production code. This is not a best practice at all, and we strongly encourage you to always create an explicit PK in your tables.

Best Practices 81

Best Practices Open Source Code Engineering 81

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

Fact #1: AWS EC2 outage properly documented. As a general best practice, Synthetic Tests are great to validate your core use cases are always working as expected. For more information check out our documentation on fault domain awareness such as rack aware managed deployments. Ready to learn more? Then read on!

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AWS Traffic Architecture Azure 188

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

High availability architecture for open source databases No matter where a database infrastructure is located (on-premises, public or private cloud environment, or hybrid environment) or what technology is used — be it MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB — it’s vital to eliminate single points of failure.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 111

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍Before we dive into what Terraform is, let's begin with a real-world example of how Terraform code looks and works:‍# Challenge requests coming from known Tor exit nodes.‍‍In Background‍The idea of managing infrastructure through code wasn't initiated by HashiCorp. ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code?

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Lighthouse is a completely open-source tool that allows users to test any website in a multitude of ways. It offers audits for best practices, accessibility, progressive web apps, SEO and of course, performance. It will also suggest improvements and point you in the direction of helpful documentation. Performance.

Google 82

Google Speed Testing Tools Testing 82

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

For re:Invent 2021 my team (but mostly Elise Greve) persuaded the re:Invent organizers to include Sustainability as a track code, and that was repeated for 2022 and now for 2023. Open source geospatial AI/ML analysis, along with IoT-connected sensors, can provide near real-time data platforms built in the cloud and assist decision-making.

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AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

Testlodge

MARCH 15, 2023

Internal structure may include code, architecture, integrations, and data flows of a system. The more code is tested, the less likely it is to have defects, and any defects found will have less severity. The more code is tested, the less likely it is to have defects, and any defects found will have less severity.

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Testing Testing Tools Java Programming 83

Percona

JULY 19, 2023

Creating the build environment The first step is downloading the source code to MySQL / Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.32 , then extracting the tarball. $ Next, we need to set up a location for our new plugin within the source tree. . $ The second file we need to create is our actual source code for the plugin.

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C++ Servers Benchmarking Best Practices 84

Percona

JUNE 7, 2023

CREATE EVENT TRIGGER trigger_name [ ON event_trigger_event ] [ WHEN filter_condition ] EXECUTE FUNCTION trigger_function_name(); In this syntax, event_trigger_event can be any of the following events, which are described in more detail in PostgreSQL documentation. Let’s check the code which will help in achieving this use case.

Database 77

Database Best Practices Open Source C++ 77

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Before we dive into what Terraform is, let's begin with a real-world example of how Terraform code looks and works:‍# Challenge requests coming from known Tor exit nodes.‍‍In the example above, we're using Terraform to set up an access rule on Cloudflare. This rule challenges requests coming from known Tor exit nodes.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Therefore, DBAs must take a piecemeal approach to achieve HA with PostgreSQL, bringing together open source extensions and tools from multiple sources.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 87

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Jeremy Smith , Jonathan Indig , Faisal Siddiqi We are pleased to announce the open-source launch of Polynote : a new, polyglot notebook with first-class Scala support, Apache Spark integration, multi-language interoperability including Scala, Python, and SQL, as-you-type autocomplete, and more.

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Open Source Code Website Design 233

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Since it’s an open-source JavaScript library, developers can access plenty of tools and resources for developing an excellent web app. developers realize it is hard to understand the documentation of JSX React. This article has listed the top six best React JS alternatives for developers/business owners’ experience.

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Entertainment Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2021

In this article, we’ll look at a React utility React.Children.toArray which lets us prepare the children prop for inspection and iteration, some of its shortcomings and how to overcome them — through a small open-source package, to keep our React code function the way it is deterministically supposed to behave, keeping performance intact.

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Open Source C++ Google Website 138

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

is a structural, open-source progressive JavaScript framework used to build complex UIs and single-page applications (SPAs). It is an open-source front-end library based on JavaScript used in web development for creating interactive components and User Interfaces. HTML templating vs JSX. link] Rendering. Conclusion. .

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Scalability Google 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Generate your own madlibs in the demo ; Look through the final code on Github ; Get a fully-built version set up in your accounts. Sanity pairs a real-time data store with three open-source tools: a powerful query language (GROQ), a CMS (Sanity Studio), and a rich-text data specification (Portable Text). Portable Text.

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Serverless Cache Open Source Code 77

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

It’s happening because of new features being added and the fact that we sometimes don’t have a second thought on packages that we constantly add and update, or think about the complexity of our code. In the case that new development changes the file size to the point of exceeding the defined limit, the script will complete with non-zero code.

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Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 99

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In many cases, they can be super convenient to add or remove without having to push code changes to the site. For example, users can install browser plugins to suggest coupon codes when they are shopping, to scan web pages for malware, to play games or message friends, or do any number of other things. More after jump!

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Lighthouse is a free and open-source tool for assessing your website’s performance, accessibility, progressive web app metrics, SEO, and more. Once you open the DevTools, you will see a “Lighthouse” tab. The full documentation covers it all. Be sure to consult the documentation to discover all of the available options.

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Performance Storage Servers Virtualization 78

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Jeremy Smith , Jonathan Indig , Faisal Siddiqi We are pleased to announce the open-source launch of Polynote : a new, polyglot notebook with first-class Scala support, Apache Spark integration, multi-language interoperability including Scala, Python, and SQL, as-you-type autocomplete, and more.

Open Source 107

Open Source Code Website Design 107

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Jeremy Smith , Jonathan Indig , Faisal Siddiqi We are pleased to announce the open-source launch of Polynote : a new, polyglot notebook with first-class Scala support, Apache Spark integration, multi-language interoperability including Scala, Python, and SQL, as-you-type autocomplete, and more.

Open Source 100

Open Source Code Website Design 100

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Designing With Code: A Modern Approach To Design. He’s been writing code for two decades, and using JavaScript the whole time. I’m not sure how I’d missed it because it seems to be maturing and well documented and a real… Just a great project. They just have to copy and pastable Chakra code. Show Notes. aj Dobrucki.

Website 62

Website Design Open Source Software 62

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages. This is an empty element — it has no closing tag — requiring a minimum of one attribute to be helpful: src , the source. The above code with an alt specified looks as follows: <img src="donut.jpg" alt="A delicious pink donut.">

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In the MySQL open source ecosystem, we have only two consolidated ways to perform sharding — Vitess and ProxySQL. Normally this solution requires a full code redesign and could be quite difficult to achieve when it is injected after the initial code architecture definition. No access to SQL code.

Traffic 127

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 127

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Have we optimized enough with tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, progressive hydration, clients hints, HTTP/3, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? You can download the spreadsheet as Google Sheets, Excel, OpenOffice document or CSV.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

HTML Processing Once a web page’s HTML file has been downloaded, the browser begins to process the contents line by line, translating code into the visual website that users interact with. It also reports on mobile usability, security, and best practices such as HTTPS. Here’s how we do it at Bookaway. One of the key Next.js

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

With detailed code walkthroughs , hands-on examples and common gotchas — all broken down into short, manageable lessons. Description: The subject producing a reader protocol is requested to read the text aloud and to immediately express any thoughts about the document. Measure quality type: Weak (subjective). More after jump!

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Performance Design Speed Testing 95

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

It uses many possible geo-location attributes extracted from device fingerprint including country, state, city, zip-code, latitude, and longitude. Moreover, identifying the scopes and scale for functional testing of a data pipeline is another area where there is hardly many well-documented strategies or best-practices.

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Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

We partnered with Netflix’s Developer Experience (DevEx) team to build out documentation, training materials, and tutorials for developers. The DGS framework is planned to be open-sourced in early 2021. We engaged with them to determine graph schema best practices to best suit the needs of Studio Engineering.

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Architecture Best Practices Engineering Open Source 249

Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

When they encounter a sound document outline, constructed with headlines that structure a web page or app, screen reader users gain a quick overview of the web page they are on. Instead, they are checking a document for content and functionality they are interested in. Let’s progress from theoretical considerations into hands-on code.

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Strategy Virtualization Government Education 141

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Our experience using GQLMS for rapid proof-of-concept applications confirmed two theories regarding the advertised benefits of GraphQL: The GraphiQL IDE displays any available GraphQL documentation right alongside the schema, dramatically improving developer ergonomics for API consumers (in contrast to the best-in-class Swagger UI ).

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Database Entertainment Infrastructure Architecture 201

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

With 100s of real-life examples , guidelines and best practices that you can apply right away. You need to adapt your scraper’s code for a specific system , and if you use the same script on a new kind of page, you’d have to rewrite parts of it. To keep things simple, we’ll take a step-by-step approach to writing the code.

Website 115

Website Code Retail Best Practices 115

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve played around with using AI tools like ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot to write code for you. So far I’ve read a gazillion blog posts about people’s experiences with these AI coding assistance tools. or “ha look how incompetent it is … it couldn’t even get my simple question right!”

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

We know that front-end testing is a set of practices for testing the UI of a web application, including its functionality. Makes sense — with these measures, we can ensure that our application is working correctly and that no future changes will break our code. Cypress’ test runner is open-source, so it fits our product strategy.

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Testing Website Code Efficiency 135