Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

IT modernization improves public health services at state human services agencies For many organizations, the pandemic was a crash course in IT modernization as agencies scrambled to meet the community’s needs as details unfolded. The costs and challenges of technical debt Retaining older systems brings both direct and indirect costs.

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Government Infrastructure Programming Cloud 192

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Getting fast initial render with streaming server-side rendering, efficient component-level updates and state transitions, while also setting up a performant loading and bundling strategy for all the assets is hard and time-consuming technical work. With 100s of real-life examples , guidelines and best practices that you can apply right away.

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Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 137

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

Embracing cloud native best practices to increase automation. Onboarding teams using self-service Kubernetes selectors is one of the best examples of how Dynatrace embraces cloud native technologies to increase automation, reduce bureaucracy, and encourage agility. Adapt deployments for multiple Dynatrace environments.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

“Because of the uncertainty of the times and the likely realities of the ‘new normal,’ more and more organizations are now charting the course for their journeys toward cloud computing and digital transformation,” wrote Gaurav Aggarwal in a Forbes article the impact of COVID-19 on cloud adoption.

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Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This separation aims to streamline transaction write logging, improving efficiency and consistency. Implementing dedicated mounts for components such as binlogs and datadir is a recommended standard practice. It becomes more manageable and efficient by isolating logs and data to a dedicated mount. Who can benefit from DLV?

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Apica

JUNE 22, 2022

Three vital factors of any project are of course time, cost, and quality – the goal of any successful project is to reduce the cost and time required to complete it successfully while maintaining quality output. Read our Load Testing Best Practice Guide here ].

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Software Software Testing Best Practices 52

O'Reilly

JULY 18, 2023

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. Others shared concerns over the training data bias for AI tools. Also, since AI tools are typically trained on U.S./English-centric

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Programming Education Code Strategy 64

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

Author Steve Souders writes about the best practices that he gained as the Chief Performance Yahoo!, Souders presents his 14 rules throughout the course of the book while discussing the importance of front-end performance. Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices For Web Developers.

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Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

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. DRM-free, of course. Keeping this efficient helps ensure a good user experience. DRM-free, of course. DRM-free, of course.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

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. DRM-free, of course. Keeping this efficient helps ensure a good user experience. DRM-free, of course. DRM-free, of course.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 94

Smashing Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

Traps in this area can be caused by following best practices that are not suitable for tests. This can occur for various reasons, but it usually happens when you try to take an easy, seemingly convenient shortcut, disregarding testing best practices. Tests that give you no consistent value at all. Major Takeaways.

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Testing Best Practices Code Design 123

Tasktop

JUNE 6, 2022

The answer to this one is, of course, it depends. Understand the starting point: Before any substantive change can occur, the first objective should always be to measure baseline flow and establish your organization’s current speed and efficiency. . Get advice and best practices for building OKRs with Flow Metrics.

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Metrics Strategy Best Practices Analytics 52

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Our goal with this post is to equip you with a comprehensive understanding of the steps, best practices, and pros and cons to ensure a smooth — and successful — transition to an open source database environment. This helps to enhance the efficiency of your database queries, resulting in reduced response times for users.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Choosing the right backup frequency: The appropriate frequency, of course, will vary from one organization to another. Likewise, establishing clear retention policies for both backups and archives is crucial to balancing data recovery needs with data management efficiency and compliance requirements.

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Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 86

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Automating repetitive tasks across the board, whether it is testing, software deployment, incident response, or simply communication between teams, automating provides immediate benefits, efficiencies, and most importantly, consistency. To support these new DevOps environment and practices, various platforms and tools have been developed.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Our focus is on typefaces for reading large amounts of text and information in the most efficient, legible, pleasurable, comprehensible, and effective way possible. What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? Thomas Bohm.

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Performance Design Best Practices Testing 113

KeyCDN

JULY 2, 2020

Maybe the best phrase to describe web standards is a set of standardized "best practices" for building websites. While the following list is not exhaustive, these best practices consist primarily of the following three things: Recommendations published by W3C. Standards published by ECMA International.

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Internet Internet Best Practices Website 56

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

This level of distribution will seriously affect the efficiency of the operation, which will increase the response time significantly. This, of course, is unless I can organize my products by country as well, which is a bit unusual nowadays but not impossible. This is it.

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Traffic Scalability Database Servers 122

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

This can mean that instead of failing completely, a system continues to operate, but possibly at a reduced level of efficiency. Please note that these are presented as general best practices. Best practices include: Conduct research and identify objectives Early on, determine what you need and what you can afford.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started  ‍Of course, the latter. But how does this apply to CDNs?

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Infrastructure 52

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Can we efficiently extract secrets from pre-trained models? Of course, we’ll be dealing with random spaces much larger than the set of numbers from zero to nine. So computing the perplexity of every single member of a real random space to give a ranking isn’t going to feasible (or at the very least, not very efficient).

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Network Testing Strategy Google 55

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

There are limitations to them, of course, most notably not having direct access to the DOM and being unable to share variables with other threads. There are objective ways to measure performance, of course, but if I’ve learned anything about it, it’s that subjectivity is a big part of the process. It’s spelled out right on the tin!

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We've reached an age where efficient and swift infrastructure deployment is more crucial than ever. A Content Delivery Network’s job is to distribute content in a fast, efficient, and reliable manner across the globe. Of course, the latter. Your role involves managing the complex infrastructure that powers CDNs.

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Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

In that context, I’ll focus on C++ and try to: highlight what needs attention (what C++’s problem “is”), and how we can get there by building on solutions already underway; address some common misconceptions (what C++’s problem “isn’t”), including practical considerations of MSLs; and leave a call to action for programmers using all languages.

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Tasktop

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Over the course of days she follows the flow of that ticket through departmental silos and multiple tracking systems. For example, at the University of British Columbia, thousands of non-computer science undergraduate students are now taking a first-year Computational Thinking course. The change is already underway.

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Software Architecture Architecture Metrics Software 45

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

Description: The most efficient typefaces with the best ratio of x-height and cap-height seem to be Wayfinding Sans Pro and Johnston Underground with an x-height between 67% to 69% of the cap height. Measurement: Accuracy and efficiency of users’ actions. Ascender And Descender Height In Relation To X-height. Time Pressure.

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Performance Design Testing Speed 97

SQL Performance

JUNE 10, 2020

If the outer query projects only a subset of the columns from the derived table, will SQL Server be smart enough to do index matching based on only the returned columns (and of course any other columns that play a meaningful role otherwise, such as filtering, grouping and so on)? WHEN RAND ( ) < 0.5.

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C++ Database Servers Code 109

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

I, for one, have typically added Google Analytics to every site I manage as a matter of course. I predominantly use Nginx, and I have a particular fondness for FastCGI cache and have found it to be especially efficient. Of course, how much of an impact you can have depends on how busy the websites are that you work on.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 74

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Of course, your data might show that your customers are not on these devices, but perhaps they simply don’t show up in your analytics because your service is inaccessible to them due to slow performance. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Use progressive enhancement as a default.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

SQL Performance

JUNE 10, 2020

If the outer query projects only a subset of the columns from the derived table, will SQL Server be smart enough to do index matching based on only the returned columns (and of course any other columns that play a meaningful role otherwise, such as filtering, grouping and so on)? WHEN RAND ( ) < 0.5.

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C++ Database Servers Code 93

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

It’s is a Google service that audit things performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices. We can compress our assets, minify our styles and scripts, and cache things responsibly so we’re serving what the user needs in the most efficient way possible. Many of you may already be super familiar with it. KB to 11.2

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Use srcset + efficient modern image formats. You can of course also do this manually just using the <img> element directly. now includes an Image component with several of the above best practices baked in. DRM-free, of course. Avoid wasting pixels (compress, don’t serve overly high DPR images).

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Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

This might be very different for your company, of course, but that’s a close enough approximation of a majority of customers out there. In fact, it might be a good idea to look into current Amazon Best Sellers for your target market. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19).

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

This might be very different for your company, of course, but that’s a close enough approximation of a majority of customers out there. In fact, it might be a good idea to look into current Amazon Best Sellers for your target market. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19).

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

Event listeners alone, of course, are blazingly fast, leaving plenty of room in the frame budget for other activity. React does alright here, but Preact seems to handle event listeners a bit more efficiently. React performance still isn’t great, but Preact gets us within a typical frame budget for Chrome.

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Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In order to achieve this efficiently, you might be wondering what and how much you need to test. You might find one possible answer in a metaphor: The test automation pyramid , first introduced by Mike Cohn and further specified by Martin Fowler, shows how to make testing efficient. A selection of examples, recipes, and courses.

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Testing Website Code Efficiency 136

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

All of this and you have to help teach people the different ways to use components , proper spacings and design for responsive web, and of course, the component will need to be updated for future use cases. Let’s build stronger relationships across our teams, reduce our workload and work more efficiently.

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