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 113

Design Website Efficiency Games 113

InfoQ

MARCH 16, 2024

Alex Dubrouski, Gaojie Liu discuss some of the tricks used in their pursuit to lower read latency and to reach 1M operations per second per node. By Alex Dubrouski, Gaojie Liu

Latency 82

Latency Design Scalability Architecture 82

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. A lot of web design talk concerns itself with what goes on around content. Page speed, design systems, search engine optimization, frameworks, accessibility — the list goes on and on. Frederick O’Brien. 2021-09-10T10:00:00+00:00.

Design 131

Design Internet Internet Mobile 131

InfoQ

JUNE 23, 2023

Frank Yu discusses how to decrease bandwidth usage and buffering across the system, protect against thundering herd problems, and simplify the logic of gateway and persistence services. By Frank Yu

Systems 52

Systems Design Scalability Architecture 52

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Designing Better Links For Websites And Emails: A Guideline. Designing Better Links For Websites And Emails: A Guideline. When a link is presented as “here” or “this,” it’s harder to aim it with a cursor or finger. Slava Shestopalov. 2021-12-06T17:30:00+00:00. 2021-12-06T19:34:18+00:00. And is it acceptable to use “read more”?

Website 141

Website Design Internet Internet 141

InfoQ

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

John Spray describes an experience of building high performance systems with C++20 in an asynchronous runtime, and explores the challenges & tradeoffs in adopting a thread-per-core architecture. By John Spray

Performance 107

Performance C++ Architecture Systems 107

InfoQ

JULY 7, 2023

Facundo Agriel dives into the architecture of Magic Pocket, some early key design patterns, and the challenges of operating such a system at this scale. By Facundo Agriel

Systems 52

Systems Storage Architecture Design 52

Sutter's Mill

OCTOBER 4, 2022

To answer common questions I encounter repeatedly, I’ve started a wiki with “Design notes” about specific aspects of the design to answer why I’ve made them they way they currently are… basic rationale, alternatives considered, in a nutshell. Design note: const objects by default Should objects be const ?

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Design Code 69

Simform

JULY 26, 2021

What’s more, it also presents you with the opportunity to create a productive, scalable, and sustainable workflow. The post How to Re-evaluate Your Frontend Architecture and Improve its Design? Frontend architecture comprises a bunch of practices and tools that upgrades your application’s code quality.

Architecture 98

Architecture Design Scalability Technology 98

DZone

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

While this architectural approach offers scalability, reusability, and adaptability, it also presents a unique challenge: effectively managing communication between these microservices. Successfully coordinating messages among these services is a fundamental aspect of their design.

Systems 274

Systems Virtualization Architecture Scalability 274

DZone

AUGUST 9, 2023

This article proposes a technique using Docker, an open-source platform designed to automate application deployment, scaling, and management, as a solution to these challenges. The proposed methodology encapsulates the ML models and their environment into a standardized Docker container unit. What Is Docker?

Scalability 246

Scalability Best Practices Open Source Virtualization 246

DZone

MARCH 12, 2024

To address this challenge, we developed Smart Scaler, a tool designed to automate infrastructure and application resource scaling. However, this presented a significant friction point in current operating models.

Scalability 152

Scalability Cloud Infrastructure Design 152

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. UX design teams are passionate about our approach to solving problems and providing users with experiences that lead to their desired outcomes. UX teams should consider it a mandatory step in designing a product.

Design 98

Design Testing Education Processing 98

DZone

JUNE 30, 2023

Unfortunately, that's not enough to thwart away SQL injections once and for all, as these APIs can still present subtle bugs or nuances in their design. Modern languages and frameworks often also abstract away the need to write raw queries, offering high-level interfaces around our database models.

Infrastructure 263

Infrastructure Database Servers Design 263

Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. Both valuing design and striving for continuous delivery are necessary.

Software Engineering 80

Software Engineering Design Engineering Software 80

InfoQ

MARCH 25, 2022

Selina Liu walks through what it takes to decompose a large and complex monolith into independent, performant services, and how they evolve and scale the architecture with changing business needs. By Selina Liu.

Architecture 56

Architecture Performance Design Scalability 56

Strategic Tech

JULY 21, 2020

Before jumping into either of those scenarios, have a look at what Strategic Domain-Driven Design can offer you. Architecture modernisation high-level sections and deliverables The diagram above presents the sections and deliverables as a sequential journey because this makes it easy to learn and follow. You can do either first.

Architecture 98

Architecture Design Software Architecture Strategy 98

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 23, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseperable. Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseperable. I replaced them with books on art direction, editorial, and graphic design. Previously On “Inspired Design Decisions”.

Design 106

Design Media Energy Availability 106

DZone

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Energy efficiency has become a paramount concern in the design and operation of distributed systems due to the increasing demand for sustainable and environmentally friendly computing solutions.

Energy 169

Energy Efficiency Systems IoT 169

InfoQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Peter Lawrey discusses achieving vertical scalability by minimizing accidental complexity and using an event-driven architecture. By Peter Lawrey

Scalability 71

Scalability Efficiency Systems Architecture 71

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form. Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form. With one or two occasional exceptions, I’ve spent the past twenty-two years designing for countless clients. I know many designers who work in-house.

Design 94

Design Media C++ Energy 94

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. Andrew Clarke. 2019-07-11T12:30:59+02:00.

Design 92

Design Media Mobile Energy 92

Smashing Magazine

JULY 28, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Emmett McBain: Art Direction As Social Equity. Inspired Design Decisions With Emmett McBain: Art Direction As Social Equity. It’s helped me deal with people, not least in presenting (read: selling) my ideas to clients. Several record cover designs by McBain Associates during the 1960s.

Design 97

Design Media C++ Availability 97

Simform

JULY 26, 2021

What’s more, it also presents you with the opportunity to create a productive, scalable, and sustainable workflow. The post How to Re-evaluate Your Frontend Architecture and Improve its Design? Frontend architecture comprises a bunch of practices and tools that upgrades your application’s code quality.

Architecture 59

Architecture Design Scalability Technology 59

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 ". The presentation was part of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum helt in September of this year. were all at the Forum.

Design 129

Design Systems 129

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces presents and shares real information on hardware, people, interactions, and environments. Cover design by Espen Brunborg.

Mobile 87

Mobile Design Best Practices Website 87

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Percona Backup for MongoDB is a custom-built backup utility designed to cater to the needs of users who don’t want to pay for proprietary software but require a fully supported community backup tool capable of performing cluster-wide consistent backups in MongoDB. MongoDB backup methods include full, incremental, and continuous backups.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

InfoQ

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Phil Calçado explores how they dealt with the hyper growth phase and what are the changes and initiatives they have put in place to make sure that they keep growing and pushing the envelope. By Phil Calçado

Design 52

Design Scalability Architecture Performance 52

InfoQ

JULY 8, 2020

Michelle Garrett talks about the journey of introducing and then scaling a GraphQL BFF to serve multiple applications. She covers the benefits of the Backend For Frontend pattern and why it's a popular way to introduce GraphQL. She talks about how to remain agile and support a production application throughout this process. By Michelle Garrett.

Processing 90

Processing Design Scalability Architecture 90

Dynatrace

MARCH 26, 2024

“It was an iterative process allowing us to reflect on the past, present, and future of Dynatrace, discuss our findings, and explore the results received in the employee experience discovery.” ” Dynatrace CEO, Rick McConnell Now, our refreshed Dynatrace Core Values are established. .” Stay tuned.

Innovation 243

Innovation Tuning Strategy Software 243

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. This repetition can be fabulous for your productivity, but when each design looks much like your last, you can quickly begin to feel jaded. Andrew Clarke.

Design 79

Design Energy Website Media 79

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

We present a systematic overview of the unexpected streaming behaviors together with a set of model-based and data-driven anomaly detection strategies to identify them. With the help of security experts, we have designed and developed heuristic functions in order to discover a wide range of suspicious behaviors.

C++ 312

C++ Metrics Tuning Strategy 312

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 76

Design Systems Strategy Processing 76

Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

Amazon’s new general-purpose Linux for AWS is designed to provide a secure, stable, and high-performance execution environment to develop and run cloud applications. This is done by detecting availability and performance problems in real time across an entire technology stack while presenting teams with answers — not alert storms.

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AWS Lambda Serverless Virtualization 277

Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2020

The techniques we use for visual, collaborative domain modelling are designed for in-person events, where everybody is in the same physical space. We will be running a remote-optimised domain-driven design workshop on 15–16th June where we will use some of the techniques discussed in this post and many others, like the bounded context canvas.

Innovation 52

Innovation Design Architecture Software Architecture 52

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Alexey Brodovitch. Inspired Design Decisions: Alexey Brodovitch. Before writing Art Direction for the Web , I began to study Alexey Brodovitch when I became fascinated by editorial and magazine design. This book will make a fabulous addition to your design collection. Andrew Clarke.

Design 79

Design Media Website Energy 79

DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

With rising competition in the digital world and the requirement to be present in the top rank of the category, makes performance tests crucial for companies. For example, the gaming app has to present definite actions to bring the right experience. Confirming scalability, dependability, stability, and speed of the app is crucial.

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