Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2023

Here’s the update: Improve architectural design to eliminate SSO bottleneck risk [In progress] Security and access are critical aspects of our architecture, and as such, there are many areas we’re looking to improve. While some of these are already done, such as adding additional compute, others require more development and testing.

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Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A Dedicated Log Volume (DLV) is a specialized storage volume designed to house database transaction logs separately from the volume containing the database tables. We performed a standard benchmarking test using the sysbench tool to compare the performance of a DLV instance vs a standard RDS MySQL instance, as shared in the following section.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A cloud migration strategy, however, provides technical optimization that’s also firmly rooted in the business value chain. With cloud-based resources, teams can spin up infrastructure in seconds, begin testing immediately, scale up or down as needed, and easily eliminate resources that are no longer needed. Read eBook now!

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. No matter what HMI we design, we need to allow users to take advantage of all that a system has to offer. Car HMI design is a relatively new field with its specifics that you need to be aware of.

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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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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. 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.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

You’ve likely uttered the phrases “test early and often” and “shift left,” but do you always remind yourself of the importance of that phrase from the end user’s perspective? LoadView, our on-demand, cloud-based load and stress testing platform , takes an outside-in approach to performance testing.

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Testsigma

MARCH 2, 2022

No matter how much you test, a few bugs can still slip through the testing phase & reach production. If you missed testing something, it’s totally fine to admit the oversight and take corrective actions. Exhaustive testing is impossible with limited time, resources and budget. Don’t Panic. Or during code review?

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Despite the potential challenges associated with scaling AI in cloud computing, strategies such as: Obtaining leadership endorsement Establishing ROI indicators Utilizing responsible AI algorithms Addressing data ownership issues can be employed to ensure successful integration.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

With traffic growth, a single leader node handling all request volume started becoming overloaded. Implementation details We solved the cache synchronization problem (as stated above) with a combination of two strategies: Titus Gateway <-> Titus Job Coordinator synchronization protocol over the wire. queries/sec.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Over the course of this post, we will talk about our approach to this migration, the strategies that we employed, and the tools we built to support this. For the migration, testing was a first-class citizen. Replay Testing Enter replay testing.

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Tech News Gather

JUNE 16, 2023

Building a successful UberEats clone requires a well-planned strategy that takes into account various aspects, including market research, feature prioritization, intuitive design, robust development, and targeted marketing campaigns. By clearly outlining your objectives, you can align your strategies and resources accordingly.

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Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

And, precisely due to this diversity, the need for testing on many devices is paramount. With the ever-increasing and evolving sector of Android users, Android device testing is of the essence. . Why Is Android Device Testing Important? That’s the point that calls for comprehensive testing when it comes to Android development.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In this post, we’ll walk you through the best way to host MongoDB on DigitalOcean, including the best instance types to use, disk types, replication strategy, and managed service providers. MongoDB Replication Strategies. DigitalOcean Advantages for MongoDB. What’s most impressive is that you’re not compromising performance for cost.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

This parameter needs to be extensively tested! 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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. We took a hybrid head-based sampling approach that allows for recording 100% of traces for a specific and configurable set of requests, while continuing to randomly sample traffic per the policy set at ingestion point. What’s next?

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Typically, the servers are configured in a primary/replica configuration, with one server designated as the primary server that handles all incoming requests and the others designated as replica servers that monitor the primary and take over its workload if it fails. This flexibility can be crucial in designing a scalable architecture.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

At the limit, statically generated, edge delivered, and HTML-first pages look like the optimal strategy. From connecting back-office operations to front-of-the-house A/B testing and dynamic personalization for each customer, the shared foundation is fast server-side rendering powered by fast storefront data access.

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Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 136

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.

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Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

About two decades ago, testing was only limited to the desktop. With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing.

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Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Compatibility Open source databases are designed with interoperability at their core, adhering to industry standards and offering support for a wide range of data import and export formats. Strategy: Choosing your path Having a strategy for your migration will make the move to open source go that much smoother.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Perceptual quality measurements are used to drive video encoding optimizations , perform video codec comparisons , carry out A/B testing and optimize streaming QoE decisions to mention a few. 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.

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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. Putting all my years of yoga practice to the test, I inhaled slowly, gracefully held the air in for a few seconds, and then slowly exhaled feeling at one with the universe.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

With more nodes and more coordination comes more complexity, both in design and operation. When used in prevention mode (IPS), this all has to happen inline over incoming traffic to block any traffic with suspicious signatures. Increasing the amount of work we can do on a single unit. Back of the envelope.

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Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve focused on making the web design responsive to ensure that the widest audience of visitors can access your content. You’ve agonized over design patterns and usability.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures. offers the Software Watchdog specifically designed for this purpose. It can achieve impressive performance, handling up to 50 million operations per second.

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Percona

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Then, we need a small downtime window just to move the traffic from the original instance to the upgraded one. Route the traffic to the upgraded instance When the time is right, perform the cutover and redirect all traffic to the PostgreSQL-15 instance, ensuring a smooth transition to the upgraded version.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

Time is a crucial usability factor If you don't consider time a crucial usability factor, you're missing a fundamental aspect of the user experience I'm embarrassed to admit that, in my previous career as a usability tester, I spent years testing websites in lab conditions. It never crossed my mind to take rendering time into consideration.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

One example displaying the need for dataset propagation: at any given time Netflix runs a very large number of A/B tests. These tests span multiple services and teams, and the operators of the tests need to be able to tweak their configuration on the fly. A publisher publishes to a topic and consumers consume from a topic.

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Cache Architecture Metrics Java 187

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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. CFS is widely used and therefore well tested and Linux machines around the world run with reasonable performance.

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Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A measly front-end designer like me can be blissfully ignorant of all this mumbo-jumbo. We can get a better view if we run the same test in another service, like SpeedCurve , which digs deeper into the metric. We can expand the metric to glean insights into what exactly is causing traffic on the main thread. Meh, untrue.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements. Adrian Bece.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Defenders of Apple's monopoly offer hard-to-test claims, but many boil down to the idea that Apple's product is inferior by necessity. However, developers are loathe to do this; turning away users isn't a winning growth strategy, and prompting visitors to switch is passé. Or so the theory goes. But is it predestined?

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

In fact, we had to look into various cases for the form design: What happens when no data is provided at all? Given that a vast majority of our readers — wonderful people like you — are using autofill, it’s worth spending time designing an experience around it. Designing The Perfect Navigation. UX, Design. So, did it?

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