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. Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

This presents enterprises with a wide range of options that cater specifically to their needs within this new framework created by multiple trusted cloud service providers. Governance and compliance are also crucial factors in ensuring enterprise cloud security as they enforce regulatory requirements and best practices within organizations.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Best Practices Government 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll delve deeper into these categories to gain a comprehensive understanding of their significance and the challenges they present. Process Improvements (50%) The allocation for process improvements is devoted to automation and continuous improvement SREs help to ensure that systems are scalable, reliable, and efficient.

Engineering 215

Engineering DevOps Innovation Strategy 215

Scalegrid

APRIL 5, 2024

This method involves splitting data over various nodes to improve the database’s efficiency. Similar to how each lane on the highway handles certain vehicles for more efficient travel, in Redis sharding, different nodes manage various pieces of data through consistent hashing. Visualize it as a relay race.

Scalability 130

Scalability Efficiency Java Database 130

Percona

AUGUST 16, 2023

In database management, well-formatted SQL code is easier to read and a vital aspect of maintaining clean, efficient, and error-free databases. A powerful tool designed to beautify and standardize SQL code is pgFormatter. It not only enhances code readability but also enforces best practices and SQL style conventions.

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Code Best Practices Open Source C++ 76

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

Yet upgrading antiquated systems and effectively integrating them into modern workflows is challenging despite the potential to increase efficiency, improve security, reduce the higher operational costs associated with supporting tech debt, and avoid the foreseeable breaks in end-of-life apps.

Government 192

Government Infrastructure Programming Cloud 192

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures. These essential data points heavily influence both stability and efficiency within the system. offers the Software Watchdog specifically designed for this purpose.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

SUS101: Sustainability innovation in AWS Global Infrastructure AWS is determined to make the cloud the cleanest and most energy-efficient way to run customers’ infrastructure and business. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint.

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AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

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

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Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 137

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

If security concerns are driving you to review your approach to development, you’re likely weighing DevOps vs DevSecOps, and considering how to incorporate security practices into your software delivery workflows, to protect your users and your business. Security is by design, not tacked on. The result is security by design.

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DevOps Speed Infrastructure Software 150

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In this way, the security agent can avoid the problem of false positives triggered by vulnerable libraries that are present but not used by the application, or not used in a certain manner that exposes a vulnerability. Best practices for container security. Pretty neat, isn’t it? Harden the host operating system.

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Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 239

ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

One such challenge has been the emergence of marginal defect-driven faults that are difficult to address solely using best practices in manufacturing test and screening. We then discuss defects observed, the role of test and design to address this problem, and identify research opportunities. Here, history can be a guide.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Best Practices Architecture 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

There is nothing worse than your well-designed digital touchpoint simply falling offline. Best practices for delivering excellent digital experiences. No technology, tool, or practice can accomplish this for you. Those technologies/environments make it possible to deliver more features faster and more efficiently.

Mobile 206

Mobile Social Media Monitoring Metrics 206

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

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Typically, the servers are configured in a primary/replica configuration, with one server designated as the primary server that handles all incoming requests and the others designated as replica servers that monitor the primary and take over its workload if it fails. This flexibility can be crucial in designing a scalable architecture.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 104

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

We saw how important it is to keep the typographic design parameters and variables the same to get a more accurate result while testing different typefaces. Research and design effort based on not good, okay, very good. Measurement: Research and design effort based on not good, okay, very good. Did you miss out on it?

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Performance Design Testing Speed 97

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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Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 90

KeyCDN

JULY 2, 2020

Web standards are best defined as guidelines developed by the World Wide Web Consortium W3C to promote consistency in design code which makes up a web page. Maybe the best phrase to describe web standards is a set of standardized "best practices" for building websites.

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Internet Internet Best Practices Website 56

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. We are working on multiple fronts to extend the solution presented here.

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

O'Reilly

JULY 18, 2023

advisor (and soon-to-be faculty colleague) Philip Guo and I are presenting a research paper at the International Computing Education Research conference (ICER) on this very topic. How should you teach students in your classes knowing that these AI tools are widely available? I’m Sam Lau from UC San Diego, and my Ph.D.

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Programming Education Code Strategy 64

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In short, any data that is written must be consistent with the data present. This level of distribution will seriously affect the efficiency of the operation, which will increase the response time significantly. To achieve that, the data needs to be checked with the existing through defined relations and constraints. This is it.

Traffic 122

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 122

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Likewise, establishing clear retention policies for both backups and archives is crucial to balancing data recovery needs with data management efficiency and compliance requirements. If carbon monoxide or other dangerous gasses were present, the gasses would kill the canary, signaling the miners to leave the tunnels immediately.

Database 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

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 ‍Terraform, on the other hand, presents a stark contrast.

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Infrastructure 52

Sutter's Mill

MAY 1, 2023

This update covers Acknowledgments, and highlights of what’s new in the compiler and language since last time, including: simple, mathematically safe, and efficient chained comparisons named break and continue “simple and safe” starts with. In today’s C++, this kind of comparison silently compiles but is a bug.

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C++ Virtualization Lambda Code 97

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Unlike CloudFormation, which was confined to AWS resources, Terraform was designed with a multi-cloud approach in mind. Terraform, on the other hand, presents a stark contrast. We've reached an age where efficient and swift infrastructure deployment is more crucial than ever.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Infrastructure 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. Although landing pages are a common practice in online marketing, we were trying to make the most of it. SEO is key to our success.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Responsive Web Design (RWD) is now a well established technique yet it’s adoption is still surprisingly low. Ilya Grigorik’s recent Velocity conference presentation explored the browser's critical rendering path and highlighted exactly what it takes to deliver a mobile page within one second.

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Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Designing With Code: A Modern Approach To Design. The Rise Of Design Thinking As A Problem Solving Strategy. But for me, I don’t have design sense. A little bit, but I’m not a designer by any means. Drew: It’s an off the shelf design system that you can drop in to build the UI for your project. aj Dobrucki.

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Website Design Open Source Software 63

Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

CSS is a simple stylesheet language for defining a website or document’s presentation. Some such examples include: Decreasing code quality as more features are added due to the varying CSS skill levels within a development team and lacking internal rules, conventions, and best practices. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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Best Practices Website Architecture Media 145

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Created by Jon Yablonski, this lovely website explains 21 psychological principles that designers can consider to create more human-centered products and experiences. The right tools at the right time, help streamline the design process. User experience research is a crucial component of the human-centered design process.

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Airlines Mobile Design Strategy 130

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term. Setting Realistic Goals.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

In my conversations with designers and developers who don’t optimize, a few of the same myths are constantly brought up. High performance and beautiful design are mutually exclusive. Google and Bing teamed up to present results from their respective experiments with page load time. drop in revenue per user, as well as a 1.8%

Performance 40

Performance Energy Google Internet 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

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. Map design decisions against performance budget and the priorities defined early on.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 14, 2018

There are broadly two dominant approaches used to organise teams in modern organisations that have moved beyond traditional activity-oriented organisation design (organising people by their specific skill). The vertically-sliced product-aligned organisation design was no longer a competitive advantage. Aligning by capabilities?—?all

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Design Innovation Mobile Google 40

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. It’s designed to capture delays that result from the main thread being busy, especially during page load.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Whether you’re just starting out with Figma or have been using it for a good while now, this post will give you just enough pointers to make your design process faster and smoother. design tokens. design systems. responsive design and testing. responsive design and testing. Table of Contents. accessibility.

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Google Design Code Mobile 145

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As with many burgeoning fields and disciplines, we don’t yet have a shared canonical infrastructure stack or best practices for developing and deploying data-intensive applications. Can’t we just fold it into existing DevOps best practices? How can you start applying the stack in practice today?

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DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 140