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How architecture evolves into strategy

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. I'm offering an overview of my perspective on the field, which I hope is a unique and interesting take on it, in order to provide context for the work at hand: devising a winning technology strategy for your business.

Strategy

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology

How multicloud observability boosts cloud performance at Tractor Supply Co.

Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2023

And according to recent data from Enterprise Strategy Group, 59% of survey respondents indicated spending on public cloud applications would increase in 2023. The company made these changes to support its ONETractor strategy, which seeks to deliver personalized, convenient shopping experiences anytime, anywhere.

Cloud

Cloud Ecommerce Performance Retail

Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. When a company’s digital representation lacks a dedicated UX/UI design team, it can be hard to produce something that stands out from the crowd. That’s why you need a good UI/UX designer. Nataliya Sambir. And vice versa.

Design

Design Website Efficiency Games

Address Kubernetes-observability configuration chaos with unparalleled automation

Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2020

Microservice design principles force people to think along a spectrum of loose coupling. Introduces the Dynatrace long-term design pattern for full-stack observability, described below. Copies image layer into Docker image during build process. Dynatrace news. Kubernetes can be a confounding platform for system architects.

Government

Government Innovation Strategy Speed

Beyond Problem and Solution Space: Better models for modern product development

Strategic Tech

JANUARY 9, 2024

People use these words to try and articulate the types of work and activities they are referring to, or where they are in the process of building something new. An excellent piece of work to start with is Indi Young’s problem, strategy, and solution space model. I often encounter the phrases problem space and solution space.

Development

Development Strategy Software Software

Sociotechnical Design Variables

Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

Over the past few years I have focused much of my learning and work choices around learning about the design of sociotechnical systems?—?how how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. As part of good design, we should consider the effects of changing all of these variables. E.g. Genesis, commodity.

Design

Design Software Architecture Strategy Technology

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. As a result, she came back to me concerned with publishing a post on a strategy her agency had yet to adopt successfully.

Website

Website Speed Mobile Design

Testing microservices: Challenges and Strategies

Testsigma

AUGUST 28, 2019

Automated Testing approaches and processes should adapt to the changes as well. In Testsigma we always keep up to date and we definitely can shed some light to the effective testing strategy for a microservices architecture. Want to make your Automated Testing strategy the effective one?

Strategy

Strategy Testing Architecture DevOps

Safe Updates of Client Applications at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Hence, it became important to supplement our release decisions with strong evidence received from the field during the update process. Deployment Strategies We are all familiar with the advantages of releasing frequently and in smaller chunks. Hence, the sampling strategy is different if it is a mobile application versus a smart TV.

Metrics

Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy

Modelling Bounded Contexts with the Bounded Context Design Canvas: A Workshop Recipe

Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

In Domain-Driven Design, a large system is decomposed into bounded contexts , which become natural boundaries in code as microservices and as teams in the organisation. The Bounded Context Design Canvas I designed this canvas based on the typical flow of strategic DDD workshops I run publicly and privately.

Design

Design Systems Strategy Processing

Scaling Revenue & Growth Tooling

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 22, 2021

To provide a view of some of the unique challenges and opportunities of our domain, we’ll share some of the core strategies we’ve developed, some of the tools we’ve built as a result, and finally talk about our vision for the future of tooling on our team. Identifying impact requires deep engagement with our users.

Engineering

Engineering Innovation Strategy Java

Here’s How Mobile Apps are Strengthening Your Digital Marketing Efforts?

Tech News Gather

MAY 23, 2022

If you are wondering how mobile app development can strengthen your digital marketing efforts, here are a few reasons that will definitely convince you to invest in mobile app development for your digital growth. Incorporating mobile apps into your digital marketing strategy allows you to reach a wider audience.

Mobile

Mobile Social Media Strategy Design

A Day in the Life of an Experimentation and Causal Inference Scientist @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

Working on my PhD, I was using optimization techniques to design radiotherapy fractionation schemes to improve the results of clinical practices. I started working at a local payment processing company after graduation, where I built survival models to calculate lifetime value and experimented with them on our brand new big data stack.

Analytics

Analytics C++ Innovation Engineering

WaterBear: Building A Free Platform For Impactful Documentaries (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Definitely read up on the strategy and reasoning behind this stack in the first article if you missed it. Now, let’s dive into the technical features and best practices that my team adopted in the process of building the WaterBear web app. For us, images are most definitely part of the LCP. image preload options. <head>

Cache

Cache Strategy Best Practices Design

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

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. Core Web Vital metrics definitions. A cornerstone of our business model lies in the development of effective landing pages.

Performance

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics

The Ultimate Guide To Outsource Web Development Services In 2023!

Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

A well-designed and practical website is a must-have in today’s digital environment for companies of all sizes, especially when you are out there hiring a web development company. Flexibility and Scalability Companies that outsource website development can adjust their strategies in response to changing needs for various projects.

Development

Development Best Practices Website Artificial Intelligence

How do you decide your approach for mobile website testing?

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

This essentially means that your website should not only be mobile-friendly but it should also have a Responsive Web Design so that your target customers can access your products (or services) with ultra-ease on their hand-held devices. How to execute an effective mobile website testing strategy. Speed and Accuracy.

Website

Website Mobile Testing Strategy

A testers guide to deal with missed bugs

Testsigma

MARCH 2, 2022

Identify the gaps in your process to avoid similar bugs in the future. Strengthen or change your process as per your context. Use the learnings to update and improve your test strategy, plan, test cases, and automated tests. Have a rollback strategy in place to prevent or minimize damage in case of a bug leaks to production.

Education

Education Strategy Traffic Testing

Bounded Context Canvas V2: Simplifications and Additions

Strategic Tech

JANUARY 12, 2020

Please feel free to use it, create remixes, or simply take it as inspiration to develop your own ways of designing bounded contexts. I feel there is a lot of potential to improve how we design bounded contexts and this is just the starting point. More importantly, keep looking for better ways to design systems.

Design

Design Strategy Innovation Processing

Backup and Recovery for Databases: What You Should Know

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Backup types and strategies It all begins with choosing a strategy, and that depends on factors such as the use and importance of data to your business, your recovery time objectives (RTO), and your budget. With the right backup strategy , you’ll be better able to achieve the aforementioned business continuity.

Database

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy

CSS and Network Performance

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

While this strategy is effective, it’s not simple: highly dynamic sites can be difficult to extract styles from, the process needs to be automated, we have to make assumptions about what above the fold even is, it’s hard to capture edge cases, and tooling still in its relative infancy. The same waterfall occurs in Opera and Safari.).

Network

Network Performance Media Cache

Cache-Control for Civilians

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

To this end, having a solid caching strategy can make all the difference for your visitors. ?? The amount of control we’re granted makes for very intricate and powerful caching strategies. If there is a newer file available on the server, we definitely want to download it. — Harry Roberts (@csswizardry) 3 March, 2019.

Cache

Cache Latency Strategy Servers

4 Most Common Myths Around Test Automation

Testsigma

APRIL 4, 2022

Automation is defined by Wikipedia as a wide range of technologies that reduce human involvement in processes. Let’s look at the definition of quality to see how test automation isn’t quality assurance. One of the popular definitions of Quality is that it is “value” to someone “who” matters.

Testing

Testing Open Source IoT Programming

Islands T-SQL Challenge

SQL Performance

APRIL 13, 2022

Note the definition of the primary key constraint based on the composite key (grp, ord), which results in a clustered index based on the same key. The newer batch mode operator eliminates much of the inefficiencies of the older row mode optimization and has the inherent benefits of batch mode processing. seconds with 10M rows.

C++

C++ Strategy Testing Servers

Understanding MySQL Triggers: Exploring How Triggers Impact MySQL Memory Allocation

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Here, we first cover the basics of MySQL Triggers, and then we take a deeper dive, exploring their impact on memory usage and providing strategies to optimize MySQL server performance. Completion of Trigger : Once the trigger’s code is executed for one row, it proceeds to the next affected row (if any) and repeats the process.

Cache

Cache Database Games Healthcare

Optimizing Video Streaming CDN Architecture for Cost Reduction and Enhanced Streaming Performance

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. Performing steps like switching from a single-CDN setup to a multi-CDN or separating strategies for content types can make the benefits twofold! But what if we could streamline this?With

Architecture

Architecture Performance Internet Internet

Insprint Test Automation – Round up

Testsigma

DECEMBER 19, 2020

But, the catch is that most of them are not following a basic guideline – the Definition of Done for a feature should also include testing and automation of the feature. Now when we talk about the definition of done, it is incomplete to say that the stories will have development only and will be tested later.

Testing

Testing Strategy Software Software

Optimizing Video Streaming CDN Architecture for Cost Reduction and Enhanced Streaming Performance

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. Performing steps like switching from a single-CDN setup to a multi-CDN or separating strategies for content types can make the benefits twofold!Â

Architecture

Architecture Performance Internet Internet

The measure and mismeasure of fairness: a critical review of fair machine learning

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

These are both utility based definitions. As opposed to utility-based definitions, the dominant legal doctrine of discrimination focuses on a decision maker’s motivations. Three popular algorithmic definitions of fairness are anti-classification , classification parity , and calibration. Algorithmic models of fairness.

Metrics

Metrics Government Best Practices Design

Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). The development team has analyzed and pinpointed the weaknesses in the CSS codebase and has set target goals for the refactor (file size, specificity, color definitions, and so on).

Strategy

Strategy Testing Best Practices Code

Core Domain Patterns

Strategic Tech

JANUARY 19, 2020

Developers who follow a Domain-Driven Design approach, however, have a counter-balance. Distilling the core domains by identifying high complexity and business differentiation According to this definition, a Core Domain is an area of the domain with the opportunity for high business differentiation. A concept known as the Core Domain.

Open Source

Open Source Games Innovation Strategy

Safari 16.4 Is An Admission

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

is astonishingly dense with delayed features, inadvertantly emphasising just how far behind WebKit has remained for many years and how effective the Blink Launch Process has been in allowing Chromium to ship responsibly while consensus was witheld in standards by Apple. No, this was a change in strategy. Regardless, Safari 16.4

Energy

Energy Games Engineering Design

One Index, Three Different PostgreSQL Scan Types: Bitmap, Index, and Index Only

Percona

JULY 6, 2023

Next is the table definition. Bitmap Index Scan The planner chooses this index scan method when the query asks for a large enough amount of data that can leverage the benefits of the bulk read, like the sequential scan, but not that large that actually requires processing ALL the table.

Best Practices

Best Practices Tuning Database Testing

Ironies of automation

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 7, 2020

Making predictions is a dangerous game, but as we look forward to the next decade a few things seem certain: increasing automation, increasing system complexity, faster processing, more inter-connectivity, and an even greater human and societal dependence on technology. With thanks to Thomas Depierre for the paper recommendation.

Games

Games Monitoring Speed Systems

The Relationship Between Software Architecture And Business Models (and more)

Strategic Tech

AUGUST 10, 2020

The Business Model Canvas If you’re not familiar, here’s a quick definition of the main elements: Customers Segments = who do we provide value for? Key activities are processes in the domain. It is not a deterministic, sequential process. The Business Model Canvas is my favourite tool for thinking about business models.

Software Architecture

Software Architecture Architecture Software Software

SRE Incident Management: Overview, Techniques, and Tools

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Now that we have talked about what an incident is, incident management is the process by which teams resolve these events and bring systems and services back to normal operation. ITSM defines how teams design, create, and deliver their services. ITSM is the policies, processes, and structure behind the lifecycle of IT services.

Social Media

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps

Cross Browser Testing Automation: Basic principles

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The process of web development has changed its meaning in the time span of twenty years ( 2000 to 2021). Earlier the process was simple and just three technologies could do all the job. Since browsers work on different browser engines, differences will definitely be seen. This is the simplest definition of cross-browser testing.

Testing

Testing Website Cloud Mobile

Fixing a slow site iteratively

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

In that spirit, what we’re looking at in this article is focused more on the incremental wins and less on providing an exhaustive list or checklist of performance strategies. This is the process of turning HTML, CSS and JavaScript into a fully fleshed out, interactive website. Again, every millisecond counts. Lighthouse.

Cache

Cache Social Media Media Website

The Fight For The Main Thread

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A measly front-end designer like me can be blissfully ignorant of all this mumbo-jumbo. FID looks at the time the user sparks an interaction and how long the browser processes — or responds to — that input. A font is a branding consideration as well as a design asset that can enhance the legibility of a site’s content.

Google

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics

A Brief Guide About Competitive Analysis

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

It should be useful if you are new to product design, UX, interaction or digital design, or if you have experience in these fields but have not performed a competitive analysis before. Competitive Analysis, Service Design Cycle, Five-Stages Design Process. The five-stages design process.

Google

Google Design Strategy Website

Cancellation in NServiceBus 8

Particular Software

DECEMBER 5, 2022

When the endpoint shuts down, you want it to stop cleanly in a reasonable amount of time without having to forcibly kill the process. In this case, you want to stop receiving new messages from the queue, then give the existing “in-flight” messages a chance to complete processing successfully before shutting down the process cleanly.

Code

Code Efficiency Systems Strategy

What to gift your software tester friend if you are the secret Santa?

Testsigma

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The Complete Software Tester: Concepts, Skills, and Strategies for High-Quality Testing by Kristin Jackvony. A Practitioner’s Guide to Software Test Design by Lee Copeland. It is quite an interesting blog that compares archery with testing and provides clarity about the testing process. Testers need Coffee as fuel.

Software

Software Software Java Testing

What is APM?

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course, end-users that access these applications — including a company’s customers and employees. Mobile apps, websites, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring.

Monitoring

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4)

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Instead, like the other articles in the Django Highlights series (see below), it’s intended as a guide for front-end developers and designers to understand other parts of the process of creating a web application. Definitions. This process is easy to integrate with your Django deployment scripts.

Media

Media Cache Storage AWS

How architecture evolves into strategy

How multicloud observability boosts cloud performance at Tractor Supply Co.

Trending Sources

Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers

Address Kubernetes-observability configuration chaos with unparalleled automation

Beyond Problem and Solution Space: Better models for modern product development

Sociotechnical Design Variables

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites

Testing microservices: Challenges and Strategies

Safe Updates of Client Applications at Netflix

Modelling Bounded Contexts with the Bounded Context Design Canvas: A Workshop Recipe

Scaling Revenue & Growth Tooling

Here’s How Mobile Apps are Strengthening Your Digital Marketing Efforts?

A Day in the Life of an Experimentation and Causal Inference Scientist @ Netflix

WaterBear: Building A Free Platform For Impactful Documentaries (Part 2)

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

The Ultimate Guide To Outsource Web Development Services In 2023!

How do you decide your approach for mobile website testing?

A testers guide to deal with missed bugs

Bounded Context Canvas V2: Simplifications and Additions

Backup and Recovery for Databases: What You Should Know

CSS and Network Performance

Cache-Control for Civilians

4 Most Common Myths Around Test Automation

Islands T-SQL Challenge

Understanding MySQL Triggers: Exploring How Triggers Impact MySQL Memory Allocation

Optimizing Video Streaming CDN Architecture for Cost Reduction and Enhanced Streaming Performance

Insprint Test Automation – Round up

Optimizing Video Streaming CDN Architecture for Cost Reduction and Enhanced Streaming Performance

The measure and mismeasure of fairness: a critical review of fair machine learning

Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2)

Core Domain Patterns

Safari 16.4 Is An Admission

One Index, Three Different PostgreSQL Scan Types: Bitmap, Index, and Index Only

Ironies of automation

The Relationship Between Software Architecture And Business Models (and more)

SRE Incident Management: Overview, Techniques, and Tools

Cross Browser Testing Automation: Basic principles

Fixing a slow site iteratively

The Fight For The Main Thread

A Brief Guide About Competitive Analysis

Cancellation in NServiceBus 8

What to gift your software tester friend if you are the secret Santa?

What is APM?

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4)

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