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Stuart Halloway explains how to augment agility with principles for designing systems. Continue reading Design after Agile: How to succeed by trying less MORE
Designing For Micro-Moments. Designing For Micro-Moments. A couple of years ago, Google announced a new mobile-first initiative it wanted web designers and marketers to pick up on. As such, it’s your job to know how to specifically design for these micro-moments. MORE
Yet there is no flowchart we can simply follow to find the optimal design. It’s so easy to get design choices wrong and make things worse instead of making them better. In order to effectively design sociotechnical systems, I recommend using design heuristics. MORE
On June 14th, I’m going to teach a one-day Implementing Responsive Design workshop at the McNamara Alumni Center in Minneapolis. The workshop will run the full day and will go from the core tenants of responsive design through to more advanced topics such as performance optimization, feature detection, RESS and more. In addition, thanks to Peachpit , everyone who attends will get a copy of Implementing Responsive Design to read, sell, or use as a doorstop—your choice. MORE
performance testing design software testing refactoring unit tests checks doumentationWith the latest cross-cutting concerns podcast , Matt and I discuss the StackOverflow Developer Survey 2019 results. In the podcast, I mentioned how developers said companies don't implement unit testing but that developers see the value of it. This is good news for the industry: developers see value in unit tests. This survey is proof of that, but there are some developers who still may not see it. MORE
A trip to the supermarket can teach you a lot about designing software systems and shaping teams to build them… I was recently in need of some chocolate sauce. The designers of the supermarket had to decide where the chocolate sauce should live. MORE
If you’re among the thousands of organisations building a platform-powered digital ecosystem, you face serious organisation design challenges. Without an explicit organisation design strategy, you will over-commit resources to low priority initiatives and starve your big bets?—?the MORE
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). organization-design digital-transformation domain-driven-design MORE
An architect should focus on designing a scalable software architecture from the early phase of the product life cycle. performance domain driven design software design principles tco software architecture design scaleablility MORE
Mark presents traditional performance data in a way that is more compelling, revealing his strong design background. Mark has pioneered this new territory where performance and design overlap. Many times there's little interaction between designers and performance engineers. MORE
Improve web performance by improving your design process… it needs to be iterative, mindful, principled and visual. I start out by suggesting that before a project is launched the team must sit down and design the process that they are going to use to reach a solution. MORE
Responsive design is the preferred technique for making web content adapt to the device on which it's viewed. A corollary to responsive design is the need for performance. Indeed, last week Google announced that websites need to deliver their design appropriately and quickly on mobile devices or they will be demoted in Google's search results. SpeedCurve's Responsive Design Dashboard answers both questions in one view. MORE
We cannot cross-reference any of the priorities within these connections, so we lose the ability to deliver assets in a considered and well designed manner. That said, this isn’t always the case, and by self-hosting your assets you can design much more bespoke caching strategies. MORE
performance mobile apps app design bridge cross platform app rendering speedSlowness comes in two flavors. One flavor includes loading screens, waiting for UI to build up, etc. MORE
Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. I hate to admit it, but five or six years ago my interest in web design started to wane. Design had lost its joyfulness. Studying the design of Avaunt magazine can teach and inspire. MORE
There are 2 major challenges to succeed in our mission: We want to democratize the platform and create a contribution model: with a developer and production deployment experience that is designed for data scientists and friendly to the stacks they use. MORE
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. This is the essence of design, trading off one variable to improve another. MORE
Matt Stine looks at the tricky situations that sometimes emerge from design and architecture. Continue reading Design and architecture: Special Dumpster Fire Unit MORE
Best practices sound like a great thing. Why wouldn’t we want to make sure our software is the best it can be? How better to make it so than to use practices that everyone considers the best? This was something I was extremely concerned with early in my career. MORE
Designing far memory data structures: think outside the box Aguilera et al., Therefore, if we want to make full use of one-sided far memory, we need to think carefully about the design of our data structures to make that access efficient. MORE
Inspired Design Decisions: Ernest Journal. Inspired Design Decisions: Ernest Journal. When you work in design for any length of time, forming habits is natural. I needed to recharge, reconnect with my creativity, and rekindle my enthusiasm for working in design. MORE
Load Balancing Routing Performance & Scalability Architecture & Design DevOps newsAt QCON New York 2019, Andjelko Iharos presented how CTO Willy Tarreau and the HAProxy team implemented a scheduler using an EBtree data structure to optimize performance and memory usage of the HAProxy load balancer. By K Jonas. MORE
Yesterday Guy Podjarny published his analysis of the use of responsive design among the top 10,000 websites. Another recent survey showed that a hefty 90% of publishers are looking at implementing responsive design. However you want to slice it, responsive design is an increasingly popular technique. That’s where Scott Jehl’s new book Responsible Responsive Design comes in. MORE
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. This guides you into exploring alternative design opportunities. MORE
I have decided to write a series on some common and modern Design Patterns that are useful in today's horizontally scalable (such as cloud-hosted) applications. This is not going to be the usual, gang of four design patterns series, but rather more suited towards building a modern application architecture that caters for the increasing requirements for east-west communication and easily scaling up and deploying. Design Patterns Software Development Software Architecture MORE
Control Costs : You don't have to design your service to meet peak load, but rather average load. Software Architecture Design Patterns: Messaging Design Patterns: Availability Design Patterns: Performance & Scalability Design Patterns Software Development RabbitMQ MORE
Load-Levelling : Since this Design Pattern, inherently uses the Queue-Based Load Leveling Pattern , all of the Benefits applied there apply here as well. Software Architecture Design Patterns: Messaging Design Patterns: Performance & Scalability Design Patterns Software Development MORE
Towards federated learning at scale: system design Bonawitz et al., We designed the FL system to elastically scale with the number and sizes of the FL populations, potentially up into the billions. SysML 2019. MORE
Please note: In this post, I will refer to all design practices, User Experience Design, Interface Design, Visual Design, and Design Research as design. Much has been written about Lean UX and the role of design in Agile development. Design’s primary role is reducing the risk that the team is building the wrong thing or building something that is hard to use. It is an approach that helps designers reduce waste and increase effectiveness. MORE
This post is part of a Design Patterns series. Software Architecture Design Patterns: Data Managment Design Patterns: Performance & Scalability Design Patterns Software Development MORE
Five years ago when Google published The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines it was a manifesto declaring the world of computing had changed forever. MORE
The goal of this experience from a UX design perspective was to bring together a tightly-related set of original titles that, though distinct entities on their own, also share a connected universe. front-end-development user-interface-design netflix graphics javascript-development MORE
This was due in no small part to the fact that in guilds, the process of engineering (designing things) and manufacture (making things) were intertwined. Product engineers concentrated on the design of a product - sketching, prototyping, tweaking, and refining - until they got the right combination of features, materials, and configuration that was useful, provided sufficient (but not excessive) durability and performance, and could be built economically. MORE
This is a guest post by Benjamin Manes , who did engineery things for Google and is now doing engineery things as CTO of Vector. The previous article described the caching algorithms used by Caffeine , in particular the eviction and concurrency models. MORE
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. What Web Designers Can Do To Optimize Mobile Sites For Speed. MORE
Once identified, … The post Less is More: Engineering Data Warehouse Efficiency with Minimalist Design appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog. Maintaining Uber’s large-scale data warehouse comes with an operational cost in terms of ETL functions and storage. MORE
Instead I have a video of a wonderful presentation by Butler Lampson where he talks about the learnings of the past decades that helped him to update his excellent 1983 " Hints for computer system design ". MORE
I mentioned several examples, but the one that really prompted the post was the myth of responsive design equaling bad performance. To whet your appetite a bit: We love to tout the web’s universality when discussing the need for responsive design. The web is an incredibly dynamic and interactive medium, and designing for it demands that we consider more than just visual aesthetics. MORE
Somehow, some people have gotten the idea that design is somehow inimical to Agile. The problem with… The post The Problem With Design appeared first on Allen Holub That’s not true. It’s always helpful to think about things before you do them. The question is not whether or not you should think in advance, it’s how far in advance should the thinking occur. Hours? Months? MORE
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Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. Its publishers hope to inspire newcomers to printmaking, but as I thumbed through its pages, I found there is plenty about the design of Pressing Matters which can inspire web designers too. MORE
Despite being consumed directly by machines, APIs are made to satisfy the needs of human beings, so designing them should follow a user-centered process, but often it doesn’t. Continue reading How to design a RESTful API architecture from a human-language spec MORE
I started professorbeekums.com with very little knowledge about UX Design. The most obvious solution to that problem is to learn. Yet startups are rife with examples of folks trying to do things themselves when they should have hired a professional. It is human to judge things by their appearance so having poor UX can be a huge blocker to gaining users. For something so critical, it makes sense that I should have hired someone MORE
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Design Related Topics High Scalability
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
This is a guest post by Benjamin Manes , who did engineery things for Google and is now doing engineery things as CTO of Vector. The previous article described the caching algorithms used by Caffeine , in particular the eviction and concurrency models.
Smashing Magazine
AUGUST 8, 2019
Inspired Design Decisions: Ernest Journal. Inspired Design Decisions: Ernest Journal. When you work in design for any length of time, forming habits is natural. I needed to recharge, reconnect with my creativity, and rekindle my enthusiasm for working in design.
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. This is the essence of design, trading off one variable to improve another.
O'Reilly Software
JUNE 13, 2019
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock explores how you can grow as a designer by becoming conscious of your heuristics. Continue reading Cultivate your personal design heuristics
Smashing Magazine
JULY 11, 2019
Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. Its publishers hope to inspire newcomers to printmaking, but as I thumbed through its pages, I found there is plenty about the design of Pressing Matters which can inspire web designers too.
Smashing Magazine
JUNE 13, 2019
Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. I hate to admit it, but five or six years ago my interest in web design started to wane. Design had lost its joyfulness. Studying the design of Avaunt magazine can teach and inspire.
cdemi
MAY 8, 2016
This post is part of a Design Patterns series. Software Architecture Design Patterns: Data Managment Design Patterns: Performance & Scalability Design Patterns Software Development
Allen Holub
MARCH 31, 2019
Somehow, some people have gotten the idea that design is somehow inimical to Agile. The problem with… The post The Problem With Design appeared first on Allen Holub That’s not true. It’s always helpful to think about things before you do them. The question is not whether or not you should think in advance, it’s how far in advance should the thinking occur. Hours? Months?
O'Reilly Software
JANUARY 11, 2018
Discover what design patterns are and how they can be used to communicate solutions to common problems. Continue reading What is a design pattern
cdemi
DECEMBER 7, 2016
Load-Levelling : Since this Design Pattern, inherently uses the Queue-Based Load Leveling Pattern , all of the Benefits applied there apply here as well. Software Architecture Design Patterns: Messaging Design Patterns: Performance & Scalability Design Patterns Software Development
cdemi
DECEMBER 4, 2016
Control Costs : You don't have to design your service to meet peak load, but rather average load. Software Architecture Design Patterns: Messaging Design Patterns: Availability Design Patterns: Performance & Scalability Design Patterns Software Development RabbitMQ
The Morning Paper
JUNE 6, 2019
Towards federated learning at scale: system design Bonawitz et al., We designed the FL system to elastically scale with the number and sizes of the FL populations, potentially up into the billions. SysML 2019.
The Netflix TechBlog
MARCH 7, 2019
There are 2 major challenges to succeed in our mission: We want to democratize the platform and create a contribution model: with a developer and production deployment experience that is designed for data scientists and friendly to the stacks they use.
Strategic Tech
JULY 18, 2018
Yet there is no flowchart we can simply follow to find the optimal design. It’s so easy to get design choices wrong and make things worse instead of making them better. In order to effectively design sociotechnical systems, I recommend using design heuristics.
InfoQ
JULY 18, 2019
Load Balancing Routing Performance & Scalability Architecture & Design DevOps newsAt QCON New York 2019, Andjelko Iharos presented how CTO Willy Tarreau and the HAProxy team implemented a scheduler using an EBtree data structure to optimize performance and memory usage of the HAProxy load balancer. By K Jonas.
O'Reilly Software
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
Matt Stine looks at the tricky situations that sometimes emerge from design and architecture. Continue reading Design and architecture: Special Dumpster Fire Unit
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. What Web Designers Can Do To Optimize Mobile Sites For Speed.
Smashing Magazine
AUGUST 17, 2018
Designing For Micro-Moments. Designing For Micro-Moments. A couple of years ago, Google announced a new mobile-first initiative it wanted web designers and marketers to pick up on. As such, it’s your job to know how to specifically design for these micro-moments.
Uber Engineering
AUGUST 14, 2019
Once identified, … The post Less is More: Engineering Data Warehouse Efficiency with Minimalist Design appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog. Maintaining Uber’s large-scale data warehouse comes with an operational cost in terms of ETL functions and storage.
Strategic Tech
AUGUST 26, 2018
A trip to the supermarket can teach you a lot about designing software systems and shaping teams to build them… I was recently in need of some chocolate sauce. The designers of the supermarket had to decide where the chocolate sauce should live.
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). organization-design digital-transformation domain-driven-design
Speed Curve
MARCH 23, 2015
Mark presents traditional performance data in a way that is more compelling, revealing his strong design background. Mark has pioneered this new territory where performance and design overlap. Many times there's little interaction between designers and performance engineers.
Professor Beekums
MARCH 27, 2019
Best practices sound like a great thing. Why wouldn’t we want to make sure our software is the best it can be? How better to make it so than to use practices that everyone considers the best? This was something I was extremely concerned with early in my career.
Tasktop
AUGUST 15, 2019
Please note: In this post, I will refer to all design practices, User Experience Design, Interface Design, Visual Design, and Design Research as design. Much has been written about Lean UX and the role of design in Agile development. Design’s primary role is reducing the risk that the team is building the wrong thing or building something that is hard to use. It is an approach that helps designers reduce waste and increase effectiveness.
O'Reilly Software
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
Stuart Halloway explains how to augment agility with principles for designing systems. Continue reading Design after Agile: How to succeed by trying less
The Morning Paper
JUNE 25, 2019
Designing far memory data structures: think outside the box Aguilera et al., Therefore, if we want to make full use of one-sided far memory, we need to think carefully about the design of our data structures to make that access efficient.
cdemi
MAY 6, 2016
I have decided to write a series on some common and modern Design Patterns that are useful in today's horizontally scalable (such as cloud-hosted) applications. This is not going to be the usual, gang of four design patterns series, but rather more suited towards building a modern application architecture that caters for the increasing requirements for east-west communication and easily scaling up and deploying. Design Patterns Software Development Software Architecture
DZone
JUNE 12, 2019
An architect should focus on designing a scalable software architecture from the early phase of the product life cycle. performance domain driven design software design principles tco software architecture design scaleablility
Strategic Tech
NOVEMBER 25, 2018
If you’re among the thousands of organisations building a platform-powered digital ecosystem, you face serious organisation design challenges. Without an explicit organisation design strategy, you will over-commit resources to low priority initiatives and starve your big bets?—?the
O'Reilly Software
DECEMBER 21, 2017
Despite being consumed directly by machines, APIs are made to satisfy the needs of human beings, so designing them should follow a user-centered process, but often it doesn’t. Continue reading How to design a RESTful API architecture from a human-language spec
Speed Curve
APRIL 28, 2015
Responsive design is the preferred technique for making web content adapt to the device on which it's viewed. A corollary to responsive design is the need for performance. Indeed, last week Google announced that websites need to deliver their design appropriately and quickly on mobile devices or they will be demoted in Google's search results. SpeedCurve's Responsive Design Dashboard answers both questions in one view.
High Scalability
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Five years ago when Google published The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines it was a manifesto declaring the world of computing had changed forever.
Tim Kadlec
NOVEMBER 11, 2014
Yesterday Guy Podjarny published his analysis of the use of responsive design among the top 10,000 websites. Another recent survey showed that a hefty 90% of publishers are looking at implementing responsive design. However you want to slice it, responsive design is an increasingly popular technique. That’s where Scott Jehl’s new book Responsible Responsive Design comes in.
Speed Curve
NOVEMBER 16, 2014
Improve web performance by improving your design process… it needs to be iterative, mindful, principled and visual. I start out by suggesting that before a project is launched the team must sit down and design the process that they are going to use to reach a solution.
The Netflix TechBlog
JULY 1, 2019
The goal of this experience from a UX design perspective was to bring together a tightly-related set of original titles that, though distinct entities on their own, also share a connected universe. front-end-development user-interface-design netflix graphics javascript-development
The Agile Manager
FEBRUARY 28, 2014
This was due in no small part to the fact that in guilds, the process of engineering (designing things) and manufacture (making things) were intertwined. Product engineers concentrated on the design of a product - sketching, prototyping, tweaking, and refining - until they got the right combination of features, materials, and configuration that was useful, provided sufficient (but not excessive) durability and performance, and could be built economically.
Tim Kadlec
APRIL 15, 2013
On June 14th, I’m going to teach a one-day Implementing Responsive Design workshop at the McNamara Alumni Center in Minneapolis. The workshop will run the full day and will go from the core tenants of responsive design through to more advanced topics such as performance optimization, feature detection, RESS and more. In addition, thanks to Peachpit , everyone who attends will get a copy of Implementing Responsive Design to read, sell, or use as a doorstop—your choice.
Professor Beekums
OCTOBER 19, 2016
I started professorbeekums.com with very little knowledge about UX Design. The most obvious solution to that problem is to learn. Yet startups are rife with examples of folks trying to do things themselves when they should have hired a professional. It is human to judge things by their appearance so having poor UX can be a huge blocker to gaining users. For something so critical, it makes sense that I should have hired someone
Tim Kadlec
DECEMBER 25, 2012
I mentioned several examples, but the one that really prompted the post was the myth of responsive design equaling bad performance. To whet your appetite a bit: We love to tout the web’s universality when discussing the need for responsive design. The web is an incredibly dynamic and interactive medium, and designing for it demands that we consider more than just visual aesthetics.
All Things Distributed
DECEMBER 23, 2013
Instead I have a video of a wonderful presentation by Butler Lampson where he talks about the learnings of the past decades that helped him to update his excellent 1983 " Hints for computer system design ".
DZone
APRIL 25, 2019
performance testing design software testing refactoring unit tests checks doumentationWith the latest cross-cutting concerns podcast , Matt and I discuss the StackOverflow Developer Survey 2019 results. In the podcast, I mentioned how developers said companies don't implement unit testing but that developers see the value of it. This is good news for the industry: developers see value in unit tests. This survey is proof of that, but there are some developers who still may not see it.
CSS Wizardry
MAY 31, 2019
We cannot cross-reference any of the priorities within these connections, so we lose the ability to deliver assets in a considered and well designed manner. That said, this isn’t always the case, and by self-hosting your assets you can design much more bespoke caching strategies.
DZone
MAY 26, 2019
performance mobile apps app design bridge cross platform app rendering speedSlowness comes in two flavors. One flavor includes loading screens, waiting for UI to build up, etc.
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