The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Life of a Netflix Partner Engineer?—?The case of the extra 40 ms By: John Blair , Netflix Partner Engineering The Netflix application runs on hundreds of smart TVs, streaming sticks and pay TV set top boxes. The role of a Partner Engineer at Netflix is to help device manufacturers launch the Netflix application on their devices. In this article we talk about one particularly difficult issue that blocked the launch of a device in Europe.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Mysqldump is a client utility that is used to perform logical backups of the MySQL database. This popular migration tool is useful for various use cases of MySQL such as: Backup and restore of databases. Migrating data from one server to another. Migrating data across different managed MySQL service providers. Migrating data between different versions […].

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Best Practices Database Servers Performance 290

DZone

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Those looking to break into the test automation field have difficulty doing so because of a lack of experience. One way to gain experience is, of course, to study and practice on your own. But how do you demonstrate your newfound knowledge to employers? Other professionals, such as front-end developers, create portfolios to highlight their skills, and you can do the same as automation engineers!

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Dynatrace news. With a quickly growing platform, new features introduced every other week, and an ever-expanding userbase, Dynatrace is laser-focused on providing you with support when you need it. For example, our innovative in-product assistance and Dynatrace ONE premium subscription offerings have redefined the Dynatrace customer support experience.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 17, 2020

2021 is going to be a launchpad for change, and here’s what’s coming. 2020 was a year unlike any other. Businesses large and small, governments new and old all had to completely change what they do and how they operate. Helping us to manage this dramatic change was technology. Whether it was Blackboard continuing our children’s education, Zoom becoming our business boardroom (and our pub), or Netflix being our night out at the movies, we relied on technology to help feed our families, teach our

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Technology Technology Entertainment Education 192

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Part of our series on who works in Analytics at Netflix?—?and what the role entails by Alex Diamond This Q&A aims to mythbust some common misconceptions about succeeding in analytics at a big tech company. This isn’t your typical recruiting story. I wasn’t actively looking for a new job and Netflix was the only place I applied. I didn’t know anyone who worked there and just submitted my resume through the Jobs page ???????

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Analytics Retail Education Engineering 138

DZone

DECEMBER 16, 2020

First of all, a quick definition of Remote Configuration: It is a way to customize the behaviour of a desired system based on certain parameters that are stored on a remote location. Many well-known libraries will give you this feature, and many of us are tempted to just integrate this big, complex, and unknown dependency without evaluating the real cost of it.

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Systems 250

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF). Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF). Frederick O’Brien. 2020-12-17T15:00:13+00:00. 2020-12-17T16:33:49+00:00. Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo).

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Simform

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Wondering which serverless provider is right for you? Read this blog to understand and analyze the comparison between AWS Lambda vs Azure Functions vs Google Cloud Functions. Get to know their current version and compare performance, security, pricing, and scalability. The post AWS Lambda vs Azure Functions vs Google Cloud Functions: Comparing Serverless Providers appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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DZone

DECEMBER 12, 2020

We live in an age where more than 5 lakh websites are created daily. As of today, there are nearly 4 million websites in the world out of which only 1.5 million are active. What about the rest? As per records, 90% of the web applications fail to work because of browser compatibility issues and 62% of mobile application uninstalls happen due to mobile crashes like poor responsiveness and alignment issues indirectly aiming at improper cross-browser testing.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Dynatrace news. Rollout starts 15 December 2020. With this release, the oldest supported OneAgent versions are: Dynatrace ONE. Dynatrace ONE Premium. 1.189. 1.183. Node.js. Added support for Node.js 15 for Linux, Alpine Linux 64-bit (PPCLE). Added support for Node.js 15 for Linux, Alpine Linux 64-bit (x86), Windows (x86). Go. Added support for OpenTelemetry 0.13.0.

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CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The HTTP Archive looked at more than 7 million websites and compiled their annual report detailing how the sites were built. And there’s an enormous wealth of information about how the web changed in 2020. In fact, this report is more like an enormous book and it’s entirely fabulous. The data comes from making queries to the HTTP Archive and is broken down into various sections, such as Performance, Security, and the languages themselves, including how folks wrote HTML or CSS.

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The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 13, 2020

An overview of end-to-end entity resolution for big data , Christophides et al., ACM Computing Surveys, Dec. 2020, Article No. 127. The ACM Computing Surveys are always a great way to get a quick orientation in a new subject area, and hot off the press is this survey on the entity resolution (aka record linking) problem. It’s an important part of many modern data workflows, and an area I’ve been wrestling with in one of my own projects.

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DZone

DECEMBER 15, 2020

What Is a Static Code Analysis? Static code analysis or Source code analysis is a method performed on the ‘static’ (non-running) source code of the software with static code analysis tools that attempt to highlight potential vulnerabilities. Static code analyzers check source code for specific vulnerabilities as well as for compliance with various coding standards.

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SQL Shack

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In this 39th article for SQL Server Always On Availability Group series, we will learn to configure SSISDB in the highly available AG groups. Introduction The SSIDB is the repository for all your packages and their configurations for integration service projects. You can configure multiple environments such as test, production, execute package, view progress and […].

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Availability Servers Database Testing 60

The Polyglot Developer

DECEMBER 18, 2020

One of the many great things about MongoDB is how secure you can make your data in it. In addition to network and user-based rules, you have encryption of your data at rest, encryption over the wire, and now recently, client-side encryption known as client-side field level encryption (CSFLE). So, what exactly is client-side field level encryption (CSFLE) and how do you use it?

Programming 59

Programming Network 59

Tasktop

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Large enterprises struggle to shed legacy ways of working, even after implementing the Scaled Agile Framework ® (SAFe®). How do you root out old habits that persist underneath the shiny new varnish of SAFe? Enterprise agility can be hard to achieve for companies that weren’t built from the ground up as software companies. Old habits die hard, even under the glossy new surface of SAFe operating procedures and cadences. .

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DZone

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In industries like banking, there's a real need for real-time data. Introduction We are living in the cloud age, which means developers do not need to set up their own local machine or dedicate on-premise environment to implement, test and run their application. They just create a VM machine in the cloud to perform those tasks. In the financial world, what would you need to get the actual update of the stock price that you just bought?

Cloud 177

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Since the beginning of the internet era, browsers and websites have lived co-dependently. Starting from the internet explorer, then to the Mozilla project and now to at least six major browsers in the market, we have evolved quite well. But browsers and web development technologies do not seem to be in a happy relationship. To ease out the web development, developers think of new ways to have a dedicated and organised system of sustainable websites such as subgrids.

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Testing Operating System Website Latency 53

Simform

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Boston is considered one the premier cities of the world. It is gradually becoming one of the leading fintech hubs of the worlds and some of the upcoming technology trends have a key role to play in it. While the city's rich history with financial institutions and the world-class infrastructure built up a solid foundation, numerous technological breakthroughs acted as catalysts.

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Tasktop

DECEMBER 17, 2020

If you’re a fan of Seinfeld, you may recall an episode where Elaine experiences an alternate reality of her circle of friends. A “Bizarro World” where polar opposites exist. Elaine meets Kevin, Gene, and Feldman who are kind, generous and lacking all the immature qualities of Jerry, George, and Kramer. For those of us who aren’t familiar with the episode “ Bizarro Jerry ”, perhaps a takeaway from the story is that there probably is a better version of ourselves out there but, despite our best ef

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DZone

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In this Quality Sense episode, host, Federico Toledo, has a chat with Bas Dijkstra, a software test automation expert, consultant, and trainer from the Netherlands with over 14 years of experience in the field. Recently, Bas triggered an interesting conversation on Linkedin about software testers getting involved with unit testing, which sparked a variety of responses.

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Testing Software Software 189

Particular Software

DECEMBER 14, 2020

ServiceControl is the nerve center of your distributed system, storing the data and providing the APIs that allow ServicePulse and ServiceInsight to function. In ServiceControl 4.13, we’ve made updates that make saga auditing more useful, provide better support for Azure Service Bus, simplify license management, and make it easier to keep ServiceControl up to date.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Cross Browser Testing is adopted by developers in order to ensure that an application works as intended across all combinations of devices and browsers. This will help developers to reveal issues that might have been left ignored or uncovered otherwise. Each browser comes with an exceptional blend of web support but also has certain drawbacks. Hence, it’s of utmost importance that you test your application’s mettle on all combinations of devices and browsers to provide your users with a seamless

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Alex Russell

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Two years ago, as I announced that I wouldn't be standing for a fourth term on the W3C's Technical Architecture Group , I wrote that : Having achieved much of what I hoped when running for the TAG six years ago, it's time for fresh perspectives. At the time, I argued that there was no better replacement I could hope for than Alice Boxhall. The W3C membership agreed and elected her to two year term.

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DZone

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Living in competitive times, it is very important for the applications to be as sophisticated and accurate as can be. There is no margin for any sort of gaps. While it is an established fact, one of the major concerns of developers is the quality of the software delivered in minimum time, at the lowest costs, and with maximum accuracy. There is an ideal case scenario.

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Speed Software Software Testing 189

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Dynatrace news. OpenTelemetry metrics are useful for augmenting the fully automatic observability that can be achieved with Dynatrace OneAgent. OpenTelemetry metrics add domain specific data such as business KPIs and license relevant consumption details. We’re therefore excited to see that AWS has adopted the OpenTelemetry standards, which are actively driven by Dynatrace and the largest cloud providers.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Cross browser testing can be a real headache for a software tester. You may have tested your application on the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, but more often than not, some browsers such as Internet Explorer, Opera Mini, UC Browser get missed out. As a result of this, a portion of your users will not be able to view your product properly.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Martin Tingley In November, Netflix was a proud sponsor of the 2020 Conference on Digital Experimentation (CODE), hosted by the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. As well as providing sponsorship, Netflix data scientists were active participants, with three contributions. Eskil Forsell and colleagues presented a poster describing Success stories from a democratized experimentation platform.

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DZone

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Unit testing helps us to cover different scenarios and it is a way to ensure the applications behave as expected under certain circumstances. Most of the time it is easy to test your classes and methods, but sometimes you need to mock certain services or methods to isolate your target. Mockito is a good library to help you with that. It can easily create mocked or partially mocked objects for you with Mockito#mock or with Mockito#spy.

Testing 189

Testing Java Performance 189

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Dynatrace news. This year I wrote two open-source apps for Dynatrace users. As they gained in popularity, now hundreds of users each, so did the pace of new feature requests. So too did the risk of introducing bugs with all the rapid change. Wouldn’t it be great if I had an industry-leading software intelligence platform to monitor these apps, pinpoint root causes of slow performance or errors, and gain insights about my users’ experience?

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Analytics Metrics IoT Monitoring 137

DZone

DECEMBER 14, 2020

There Is No Perfect Implementation? Every developer has his own preferences and vision about problem-solving. Any problem can be solved in my différent ways following know practices like SOLID, KISS, etc. But how to compare 2 different implementations? Smaller is better? Only Object-Oriented? How practically evaluate notions like code maintainability, readability, transparency?

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DZone

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In the software development cycle, testing is one of the important criteria. There are many tools available in this space for testing such as Junit, Jmeter, manual, automation, and many performance testing tools. Some of these tools are third-party tools and have a cost-heavy license for the company to manage. For small start-up companies, these license costs can be unbearable.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Testing Tools 160

DZone

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Once Again About Cyclomatic Complexity. In the first part, I've introduced Cyclomatic Complexity ( CYC ) metrics in the previous part. So CYC has no intention to be a readability code metric. CYC was invented a long time ago (in 1976) by Thomas J. McCabe. Cognitive Complexity Metric. Cognitive Complexity (CC) attempts to count the cognitive effort required to understand the code's flow.

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Code Metrics Java Performance 142

DZone

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In this Quality Sense episode, Federico Toledo has a chat with Júlio de Lima , an engineer at Capco, who recently completed his master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computing (Artificial Intelligence) and also co-founded GaroaQA , a meetup group with four locations across Brazil and over 2,000 members. Episode Highlights. The complexity of analyzing the huge amounts of data that software performance tests provide.

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