The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Replay traffic testing gives us the initial foundation of validation, but as our migration process unfolds, we are met with the need for a carefully controlled migration process. A process that doesn’t just minimize risk, but also facilitates a continuous evaluation of the rollout’s impact.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

The RAG process begins by summarizing and converting user prompts into queries that are sent to a search platform that uses semantic similarities to find relevant data in vector databases, semantic caches, or other online data sources. RAG augments user prompts with relevant data retrieved from outside the LLM.

Cache 199

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 199

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 100

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In this post, I’m going to break these processes down into each of: ? Given that 66% of all websites (and 77% of all requests ) are running HTTP/2, I will not discuss concatenation strategies for HTTP/1.1 What happens when we adjust our compression strategy? The former makes for a simpler build step, but is it faster?

Cache 291

Cache Latency Strategy Speed 291

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Bradbury Thompson: The Art Of Graphic Design. Inspired Design Decisions With Bradbury Thompson: The Art Of Graphic Design. I learned how to channel my often rebellious attitude to conventional design thinking to develop novel solutions to often everyday design problems.

Design 119

Design Media Entertainment Website 119

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

For example: UUID=f41e390f-835b-4223-a9bb-9b45984ddf8d / xfs rw,noatime,attr2,inode64,noquota 0 0 Unix ulimit settings Most UNIX-like operating systems, including Linux and macOS, provide ways to limit and control the usage of system resources such as threads, files, and network connections on a per-process and per-user basis.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Testsigma

JANUARY 13, 2021

This article will take an in-depth look at the various tools and strategies that help with mobile application testing. What business processes help with testing mobile apps ? Not only will this help speed track the testing process, it will also help make the objectives clearer.

Mobile 54

Mobile Strategy Testing Efficiency 54

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It’s a complex process involving various factors and meticulous planning. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier. In this section, we’ll outline the essential steps involved in migrating to open source databases.

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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 45

Design Software Architecture Strategy Technology 45

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

But there are other related components and processes (for example, cloud provider infrastructure) that can cause problems in applications running on Kubernetes. Dynatrace VMware and virtualization documentation . Dynatrace Kubernetes documentation . Dynatrace OneAgent documentation . OneAgent and its Operator .

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Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System 234

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Bainbridge believed that automation designers were in denial about this, however. As she saw it, designers approached the problem of automation as if the human factor were not , in fact, a factor. This is precisely the kind of problem that robotic process automation (RPA) aims to address. RPA explained.

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Processing Programming Virtualization Technology 83

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2020

by Damir Svrtan and Sergii Makagon As the production of Netflix Originals grows each year, so does our need to build apps that enable efficiency throughout the entire creative process. The idea of Hexagonal Architecture is to put inputs and outputs at the edges of our design. whether it be Relational or Documents.

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Architecture Transportation Java Strategy 345

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In practice, session recording solutions make use of the document object model (DOM), which is a programming interface for web pages and document. Conversely, if users encounter functional issues or poor UI design that frustrate common actions, replays provide clear evidence. Develop a broad recording strategy.

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Mobile Website Analytics Cache 240

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. We have the unpredictable nature of markets.

Design 40

Design Architecture Software Architecture Systems 40

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In Part 1 , we discussed various strategies and techniques for handling images, video, and audio in a Gatsby project. This time, in Part 2, we are covering a different type of media we commonly encounter: documents. Meet Smashing Email Newsletter with useful tips on front-end, design & UX. Your (smashing) email Once a week.

Media 87

Media Website Availability Design 87

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The biggest challenge was aligning on this strategy across the organization. We partnered with Netflix’s Developer Experience (DevEx) team to build out documentation, training materials, and tutorials for developers. Our goal was to design a GraphQL schema that was reflective of the domain itself, not the database model.

Architecture 249

Architecture Best Practices Engineering Open Source 249

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

For example, when we design a new version of VMAF, we need to effectively roll it out throughout the entire Netflix catalog of movies and TV shows. This article explains how we designed microservices and workflows on top of the Cosmos platform to bolster such video quality innovations. A simplified trace graph from Nirvana.

Media 171

Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

But there are other related components and processes ( for example, cloud provider infrastructure ) that can cause problems in applications running on Kubernetes. Dynatrace VMware and virtualization documentation . Dynatrace Kubernetes documentation . Dynatrace OneAgent documentation . Kubernetes integration.

Analytics 134

Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System 134

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 87

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 87

Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Typically, there’s a period where modernization is discussed as the pains of legacy systems and/or ways of working are noticed and become ever more prominent, blocking the business strategy. Some companies talk about modernizing for years before they make a serious commitment. We informally call this the Noticing stage.

Architecture 98

Architecture Metrics Logistics Strategy 98

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) introduced a bill requiring “companies to assess the algorithms that process consumer data to examine their impact on accuracy, fairness, bias, discrimination, privacy, and security.” The blueprint is an unenforceable document. A couple of years ago, U.S. Shifting the Responsibility Back to People.

Social Media 111

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Media Government 111

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

If you don’t have well-designed and small columns for this composite primary key, it could enlarge all of your secondary indexes. HASH partitioning HASH partitioning in MySQL divides a table into partitions based on the hash value of a designated column’s contents. Want to ensure a successful MySQL 5.7

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

Particular Software

JUNE 20, 2022

The key to a successful Cosmos DB system is its data partitioning strategy. of our CosmosDB persistence package , we’ve made defining the partition key for each message processed by NServiceBus much more straightforward, without needing a custom pipeline behavior. In version 1.1 In version 1.1

Azure 52

Azure Storage Strategy Tuning 52

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

The implication here is that we’ve now rendered any font-loading strategies completely ineffective: font-display can’t work if there are no fonts; the Font Loading API is useless if there are no fonts. There was no appetite for providing or even documenting the alternative (i.e. That’s approximately $15.5m Closing Thoughts.

Latency 203

Latency Cache Strategy Media 203

Percona

JULY 26, 2023

MongoDB is a non-relational document database that provides support for JSON-like storage. As with any database, developers and DBAs working with MongoDB should look at how to optimize the performance of their database, especially nowadays with cloud services, where each byte processed, transmitted, and stored costs money.

Database 79

Database Servers Storage Strategy 79

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 72

Design Strategy Innovation Processing 72

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. We used an eager loading strategy paired with a high fetchpriority on the images.

Cache 72

Cache Strategy Best Practices Design 72

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. However, achieving a good LCP score is often a multi-faceted process that involves optimizing several stages of loading and rendering.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

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 59

Development Best Practices Website Artificial Intelligence 59

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

They were designed to provide a way to execute JavaScript code in the background, separate from the main execution thread of a web page, in order to improve performance and responsiveness. Web Workers are designed to perform tasks that do not require direct access to the UI, such as data processing, image manipulation, or calculations.

Efficiency 106

Efficiency Code Strategy Network 106

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. Once the designers had done this, they could turn their creations over to manufacturing operations to produce them at scale.

Design 49

Design Strategy Engineering Architecture 49

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 105

Education Strategy Traffic Testing 105

Percona

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Ensuring the security and resilience of your data hinges on having a robust backup strategy, and Percona XtraBackup (PXB), our open source backup solution for all versions of MySQL, is designed to make backups a seamless procedure without disrupting the performance of your server in a production environment.

C++ 92

C++ Open Source Servers Database 92

Testsigma

APRIL 4, 2022

Automation is defined by Wikipedia as a wide range of technologies that reduce human involvement in processes. Here are some of the possible quality attributes: Reliability Speed Usability Scalability Maintainability Testability Documentability Trainability Functionality Supportability.

Testing 95

Testing Open Source IoT Programming 95

Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2020

JSON is the most common format used by web services to exchange data, store documents, unstructured data, etc. Note: If a particular key is always present in your document, it might make sense to store it as a first class column. JSON is faster to ingest vs. JSONB – however, if you do any further processing, JSONB will be faster.

Storage 321

Storage Database Efficiency Processing 321

Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2019

Many Dynatrace monitoring environments now include well beyond 10,000 monitored hosts—and the number of processes and services has multiplied to millions of monitored entities. If you need to get all the process information about a running host, you should only query the processes that belong to that host. Dynatrace news.

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Best Practices Monitoring Cache Speed 128

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. This is on purpose. Test, test, test.

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Network Performance Media Cache 278