High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In this article, we discuss the concepts of dependability and fault tolerance in detail and explain how the Ably platform is designed with fault tolerant approaches to uphold its dependability guarantees. As a basis for that discussion, first some definitions: Dependability The degree to which a product or service can be relied upon.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. After all, as designers and developers, we want to make it more difficult for our users to make mistakes. Part Of: Design Patterns. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-08-05T13:30:00+00:00. 2021-08-05T17:04:11+00:00. Part 1: Perfect Accordion.

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O'Reilly Software

MARCH 1, 2018

Sam Newman provides a succinct definition of microservices in Building Microservices : “Microservices are small, autonomous services that work together.”. Microservices are an alternative to monolithic systems. Large and centralized systems can present a host of challenges. The characteristics of microservices.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Our creative team helps make this happen by designing promotional artwork that best represents each title featured on our platform. In the past, we have attempted to design A/B tests where we investigate one aspect of artwork at a time, often within one particular genre.

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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 happens when your app/website/system is efficient. Nataliya Sambir.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

If you start catching bugs early, it will save you tons of time fixing them later.nn> Design reviewnnIt’s a very powerful tool when used in a good way. I really like what one of the smartest people with whom I worked said: “A good design is a design where you can see the code”. You may think that you know how the system works.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

From Good To Great In Dashboard Design: Research, Decluttering And Data Viz. From Good To Great In Dashboard Design: Research, Decluttering And Data Viz. Tossing out suboptimal parts of our design can be a daunting task, especially after you’ve invested hours of work into it. Definition. Design Validation.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language. But these are definitely ruled out for enterprise applications due to the complexity in development, maintainability, need for object orientation, and interoperability.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Although I agree that designing good prompts for AI is an important skill, Agarwal overstates his case. This definition is essentially interactive. This is probably the definition that Agarwal has in mind. Designing and writing software systems that generate prompts automatically.

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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. However, their focus has always been on making a great-looking and effective design. Suzanne Scacca.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 9, 2024

“Hail the QA Engineer” may be clickbait, but it isn’t controversial to say that testing and debugging will rise in importance. First, one of the cornerstones of QA is testing. Generative AI can generate tests, of course—at least it can generate unit tests, which are fairly simple. Programming culture is another problem.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Since then, the video pipeline has undergone substantial improvements and broad expansions: Starting with Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) at Standard-Definitions , we expanded the encoding pipeline to 4K and High Dynamic Range (HDR) which enabled support for our premium offering. This testing stage took about two weeks.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2023

But “the benefits are definitely worth the effort, provided you do it in a strategic way,” Bollampally said. ” Uninterrupted testing and multicloud observability Cluster monitoring also helped the company avoid performance issues during the A/B testing it conducted to evaluate the user experience.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Here we describe the role of Experimentation and A/B testing within the larger Data Science and Engineering organization at Netflix, including how our platform investments support running tests at scale while enabling innovation. What more can we learn from this test, to inform the next one?”

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

At Netflix, we have significant investments in ensuring new versions of our applications are well tested. However, Netflix is available for streaming on thousands of types of devices and it is powered by hundreds of micro-services which are deployed independently, making it extremely challenging to comprehensively test internally.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The fact is, Reliability and Resiliency must be rooted in the architecture of a distributed system. The final status update was at 6:54PM PDT with a very detailed description of the temperature rise that caused the shutdown initially, followed by the fire suppression system dispersing some chemicals which prolonged the full recovery process.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Whenever a new methodology or a new system is introduced, with it – certain terms and guidelines are introduced too. 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. Grab your free copy!

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As we look at today’s applications, microservices, and DevOps teams, we see leaders are tasked with supporting complex distributed applications using new technologies spread across systems in multiple locations. For most systems, an optimum MTTR could be less than one hour while others have an MTTR of less than one day.

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Apica

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In our previous post, we established user journeys as the essential goal of software testing efforts. If that is true, what is stopping organizations from truly testing user journeys? Variability and complexity. But let’s not just concede failure to complexity again. Let’s move past it. Getting a grip on user intentions.

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

PostgreSQL is a free and open source object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) that has existed since the mid-1990s. Over the years, it has evolved into a robust and feature-rich database that offers several advantages over other database management systems. Reliability PostgreSQL is known for its reliability and stability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Instead, the schema gets generated at runtime based on definitions in code. At Netflix we strongly prefer schema-first development because: The schema design is front and center of the developer experience. Another key feature is support for lightweight query tests. The tests look and feel like plain JUnit tests.

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Percona

DECEMBER 18, 2023

These days, there’s been a lot of talk in the industry about setting up one’s database system on PostgreSQL. Most times, these are Greenfield projects where the bulk of the effort is on its design and architecture. Even differences as simple as data types can present a challenge. MYSQL: OS: Ubuntu 16.04 MySQL version 5.7

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Percona

JULY 25, 2023

So, given a table_id, how do you get the table schema/definition? After the “data dictionary” (DD) engine and DD cache are initialized on a server, the Storage Engines can ask for a table definition. ibd in the test directory. For example, mysql datadir/test/t1.ibd. ibd2sdi data/test/t1.ibd

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

As this led to a countless number of connections and dependencies between them, the complexity of such systems increased. Chaos engineering provides mechanisms to test for failures, create awareness of this systems in terms of how complex and how distributed they are, and to be proactive. Controlled Chaos.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Toby Mao , Sri Sri Perangur , Colin McFarland Another day, another custom script to analyze an A/B test. You can look at ABlaze (our centralized A/B testing platform) and take a quick look at how it’s performing. At any point a Netflix user is in many different A/B tests orchestrated through ABlaze. Not at Netflix.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

How do we break a large system into smaller, more manageable modular components? 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. 30 minutes) Bounded Context Design Canvas (min.

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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. Different screen resolutions and viewport sizes add another layer of complexity to mobile website testing.

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

I am sure people at that time had not heard about cross-browser testing. All these changes made one concrete effect on the testing world. They made cross-browser testing essential. What is cross-browser testing? Cross-browser testing is a mantra to be followed by everyone developing a website.

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High Scalability

JULY 18, 2022

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High Scalability

MAY 4, 2022

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

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JUNE 10, 2022

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DECEMBER 9, 2021

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

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High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2021

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

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