Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

About two decades ago, testing was only limited to the desktop. With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Commonly, teams create SLOs because they are simply following what others in the industry are doing, or because they are common best practices. To avoid this, start the SLO discussion early in the design process. Pitfall 3: Using SLOs reactively vs. proactively. But many fail to understand the business objective it is tied to.

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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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Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 135

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

But with the growing smartphone user base, two things are a given: one — There will be more people who will want to access your website via mobile, ensuring great quality and usability for your websites for mobile and testing them well will become very important. What Is Mobile Web Testing? Why Should We Perform Mobile Web Testing?

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

The new WebPageTest website design. Unveiling the new WebPageTest UI — I absolutely love seeing WebPageTest’s design evolve and improve. It’s one of those products that’s clearly a best-in-class tool for performance practitioners, yet had a prettttty gnarly design for a lot of years. This is way better.

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Performance Cache Best Practices Strategy 68

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In this article, we will take a deeper dive into the various SRE principles and guidelines that a site reliability engineer practices in their role. Google was the first company to create, embrace, and put support behind the role of site reliability engineering. Simplicity.

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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. So, did it?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

We use Lighthouse and WebPagetest as our synthetic testing tools for performance to measure CLS. Apart from that, we check the Google Search Console Core Web Vitals Report section to get an idea of any potential CLS issues in any of our pages. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. How We Discovered CLS Issue In Our Product Page.

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MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

According to Google, a website can lose as many as half its visitors while loading. Google’s PageSpeed Insights tools may be just what you need to leverage data collected through speed testing. As part of the PageSpeed Tools suite, Insights is designed to guide your response to slow speeds, resulting in optimal performance.

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. Designing for Performance. High Performance Responsive Design. Responsive Web Design. Information Architecture.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Inspired by that post, I wanted to dig a bit deeper into a few of the best practices they mentioned, which fall loosely into these three buckets: Analyze your pages – understand the critical rendering path and page composition. Build a performance culture that embraces collaboration between design and dev.

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 78

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example. Search engines must be specially designed with search results that are compliant to existing Chinese laws on internet security and bandwidth control. So whenever connecting to a VPN, a best practice is to use one country as server location then stick to it.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2021

With best practices and guidelines on accessibility, assistive technology and inclusive design patterns. As an add-on, if you are new to testing — like I am at the point of this writing — you might be interested in 7 tests written for this utility function. react-keyed-flatten-children tests.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user. Of all those options, it’s safe to assume that text is the best choice for LCP performance because it loads and renders fast.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. WebPageTest is one of the few web performance testing tools that actually tests a reload of the page using a primed HTTP Cache — most of the other tools just flag if your HTTP resources are not explicitly set to be cached.

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Cache Games Performance Website 91

Testsigma

MARCH 24, 2021

2020, a new game called FAU-G was released on the Google play store. Such case studies uplift the importance of a better user interface and hence the importance of the user interface testing, or UI testing. The parameters and consequences of UI testing remain consistent across various fields though. .

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

After the success of the books that Brian and I had written, which we got a cut of royalties for, our management decided that we should write books as our day job, and we assembled a team of experts to write up best practice guides as books in the Sun Blueprints series.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

This enables teams to quickly develop and test key functions without the headaches typically associated with in-house infrastructure management. Cloud providers such as Google, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft also followed suit with frameworks such as Google Cloud Functions , AWS Lambda , and Microsoft Azure Functions.

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Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 247

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

From site reliability engineering to service-level objectives and DevSecOps, these resources focus on how organizations are using these best practices to innovate at speed without sacrificing quality, reliability, or security. Learn more about DevOps and best practices to achieve it at scale.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Although based on the load it may be possible to infinitely scale the data pipeline but that will come with a cost which most companies other than Google or Amazon will struggle to justify. Your best shot is proactive capacity planning and better resources utilisation by removing inefficiencies.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

SRE is the transformation of traditional operations practices by using software engineering and DevOps principles to improve the availability, performance, and scalability of releases by building resiliency into apps and infrastructure. Designating and managing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) as availability targets for a service.

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DevOps Software Engineering Speed Google 186

Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

Email Testing Flow As It Should Be. Email Testing Flow As It Should Be. It is recommended to follow rules and best practices of building and sending emails. By testing every single email aspect! Let’s talk email testing! But are you certain that your email testing flow is comprehensive and smooth enough?

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Testing Servers Social Media Automotive 109

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Designing With Code: A Modern Approach To Design. Automating Screen Reader Testing On macOS Using Auto VO. 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: How easy is it to customize a design?

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Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

It’s easy to see why, with benefits such as better testing, easier deployment, faster performance, and more. In fact, giants like Google and Microsoft once employed monolithic architectures almost exclusively. These teams typically use standardized tools and follow a sequential process to build, review, test, deliver, and deploy code.

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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 128

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. Google Fonts. Google Sheets sync. responsive design and testing. Table of Contents.

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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.

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Energy Hardware Best Practices Architecture 52

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 Examples Of Practical Digital Accessibility.

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Website Mobile Design Testing 145

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. A measly front-end designer like me can be blissfully ignorant of all this mumbo-jumbo. Analytics is a good example. Large preview ) I love this stuff!

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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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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

While you may assume a great majority of the cloud database deployments are run on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, small to medium-sized businesses in particular are gravitating towards the developer-friendly cloud provider, DigitalOcean , for their hosting for MongoDB® needs. MongoDB Replication Strategies.

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Abhishek Tiwari

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

1-10 Engineers Focus: Rapid product delivery to find mythical product market fit Architecture: a well designed 12-factor MVC app running securely on Heroku or Google App Engine, or any other PaaS platform. Get test automation improved (10-20%). Adopt DevSecOps best-practices. Test coverage (50-70%).

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Technology Technology Architecture Engineering 81

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

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. CSS is designed to not lose content, to not cause harm. More after jump! Jump to online workshops ?. Debugging Overflow.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Ethics are an important part of human-computer interaction because they keep people at the heart of the design process. Unethical practices at companies lead to the creation of technology that we all use but often neglect the influence of those intended to serve. Interaction Design Foundation. New York University.

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Code Design Education Government 137

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

Swift Papers felt like a well-scoped project to test how well AI handles a realistic yet manageable real-world programming task. Here’s how I worked on it: I subscribed to ChatGPT Plus and used the GPT-4 model in ChatGPT (first the May 12, 2023 version, then the May 24 version) to help me with design and implementation.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve focused on making the web design responsive to ensure that the widest audience of visitors can access your content. You’ve agonized over design patterns and usability.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This" can mean anything from design and features to our own internal processes. We apply this litmus test to everything we do, and I believe it's the secret of our success. Google's Core Web Vitals have been a huge topic this year. Performance Culture Best Practices. We're so happy to have him on Team SpeedCurve!

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