2020

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Data Democratization and How to Get Started?

DZone

Today data is an important factor for business success. In every business, it has been observed that data is playing a game-changing moment to improve business performance. Data is important and necessary in this increasingly competitive world. It is essential for companies to help maintain a competitive edge so that they can help reduce costs and grow profitable sectors that they have disappeared from.

Games 363
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The Fastest Google Fonts

CSS Wizardry

* The Wiz: [link] 200518_2J_70c5f6c1c92a1cd436e525ac2b895f51 200518_AY_290d20f93c0e4b469e0bbe60a63f678e 200518_8F_49cb76e22485f51fad729e085a8bd08e 200518_4W_7d70995268b4aa4f495304063d449ae3&thumbSize=150&ival=100&end=all * harry.is: [link] --> For the most part, web fonts nowadays are faster than ever. With more standardised FOUT/FOIT behaviour from browser vendors, to the newer font-display specification, performance—and therefore the user—seems to have been finally been put front-and-centre.

Google 364
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A Short on How Zoom Works

High Scalability

Zoom scaled from 20 million to 300 million users virtually over night. What's incredible is from the outside they've shown little in the way of apparent growing pains, though on the inside it's a good bet a lot of craziness is going on. Sure, Zoom has made some design decisions that made sense as a small spunky startup that don't make a lot of sense as a defacto standard, but that's to be expected.

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Life of a Netflix Partner Engineer?—?The case of extra 40 ms

The Netflix TechBlog

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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Dynatrace wins AI Breakthrough Award for Davis AI engine

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Today, the AI Breakthrough Awards announced its 2020 winners , recognizing the leading AI innovators and solutions. We are proud to s hare Dynatrace has been named the winner in the “ Best Overall AI-based Analytics Company ” category, recognized for our innovation and the business-driving impact of our AI engine, Davis. .

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Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure

Scalegrid

If you’re hosting your databases in the cloud, choosing the right cloud service provider is a significant decision to make for your long-term hosting costs. This is especially apparent in today’s world where organizations are doing whatever they can to optimize and reduce their costs. Over the last few weeks, we have been inundated with requests from SMB customers looking to improve the ROI on their database hosting.

Azure 293
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Grüezi Schwiiz! Bonjour la Suisse! Buongiorno Svizzera! An AWS Region comes to Switzerland

All Things Distributed

Today I’m happy to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Switzerland in the second half of 2022. When the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region is launched, developers, start-ups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations will be able to run their applications and serve end users across the region from data centers located in Switzerland.

AWS 217

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Effective Skeleton Screens

Tim Kadlec

When I first stumbled on the idea of skeleton screens, thanks to Luke Wroblewski talking about them back in 2013 , I latched onto them pretty quickly. I have never been a fan of progress bars and spinners, and skeleton screens seemed like a smart step in the right direction. For those unfamiliar, a skeleton screen is a method of displaying the outline (skeleton) of the content to come, typically using gray boxes and lines instead of a progress bar while content is loading.

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content-visibility: the new CSS property that boosts your rendering performance

CSS - Tricks

Una Kravets and Vladimir Levin: […] you can use another CSS property called content-visibility to apply the needed containment automatically. content-visibility ensures that you get the largest performance gains the browser can provide with minimal effort from you as a developer. The content-visibility property accepts several values, but auto is the one that provides immediate performance improvements.

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How Tech is Shaping the Logistics Industry in Chicago

Simform

Chicago is a well established global shipping hub. The city houses plenty of logistic giants that move goods around the world. However, the dawn of new technologies in the field of logistics has stirred up things in this city. The emergence of new players and rapid modernization of the logistics industry has opened up a world of possibilities for Chicago.

Logistics 145
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Handling Multiple Windows With Protractor For Selenium Testing

DZone

Every day is a challenge for newbie automation testers! Just when you learned how to perform automated browser testing on a single window, you now come across the challenge of handling multiple windows. Isn’t this a nightmare! Well, no need to worry, I've got you covered. While performing automated browser testing, at times you might end up in situations where you would need to handle multiple windows and tabs.

Testing 359
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Please stop using this UPSERT anti-pattern

SQL Performance

I think everyone already knows my opinions about MERGE and why I stay away from it. But here's another (anti-)pattern I see all over the place when people want to perform an upsert (update a row if it exists and insert it if it doesn't): IF EXISTS ( SELECT 1 FROM dbo. t WHERE [ key ] = @key ) BEGIN. UPDATE dbo. t SET val = @val WHERE [ key ] = @key ; END.

Database 145
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One Team at Uber is Moving from Microservices to Macroservices

High Scalability

There may be an undiscovered tribe deep in some jungle somewhere that hasn’t made up their mind on microservices, but I doubt it. People love microservices or love to hate microservices. There’s not much in between. So it means something when even a team at a company like Uber announces a change away from microservices to something else.

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How Netflix Scales its API with GraphQL Federation (Part 1)

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix is known for its loosely coupled and highly scalable microservice architecture. Independent services allow for evolving at different paces and scaling independently. Yet they add complexity for use cases that span multiple services. Rather than exposing 100s of microservices to UI developers, Netflix offers a unified API aggregation layer at the edge.

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Dynatrace launches automatic end-to-end observability via traces for AWS Lambda (Preview program)

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. We’ve worked closely with our partner AWS to deliver a complete, end-to-end picture of your cloud environment that includes monitoring support for all AWS services. Now Dynatrace is pleased to announce another industry first: automatic, end-to-end observability for AWS Lambda functions in Node.js and Python via traces. By leveraging the AWS Lambda Extensions API , Dynatrace brings the unique value of its Davis AI-engine for fully automatic root cause analysis to AWS Lambda.

Lambda 295
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MySQL on Azure Performance Benchmark – ScaleGrid vs. Azure Database

Scalegrid

Microsoft Azure is one of the most popular cloud providers in the world, and a natural fit for database hosting on applications leveraging Microsoft across their infrastructure. MySQL is the number one open source database that’s commonly hosted through Azure instances. While Microsoft offers their own Azure Database product, there are other alternatives available that may be able to help you improve your MySQL performance.

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Reaffirming our commitment to Italy: Introducing the AWS Europe (Milan) Region

All Things Distributed

The global healthcare pandemic has been like nothing many of us in Europe have ever known. During this time, many organizations have been contemplating their role in the COVID-19 crisis, and how they can best serve their communities. I can tell you it has been no different for us at Amazon Web Services (AWS). We are focused on where we can make the biggest difference, to help the global communities in which we all live and work.

AWS 216
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The Import On Interaction Pattern

Addy Osmani

Tip: Lazy-load non-critical resources when a user interacts with UI requiring it. Your page may contain code or data for a component or resource that isnt immediately necessary. For example, UI a user doesnt see unless they click or scroll on parts of the page. This can apply to many kinds of first-party code you author, but this also applies to third-party widgets such as video players or chat widgets where you typically need to click a button to display the main interface.

Code 145
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Cumulative Layout Shift, The Layout Instability Metric

Dareboost

Have you ever started reading an exciting news article but then lose your line because all the text shifted downwards? This happens to me a lot, mostly because of ads loading around the content I’m reading.This kind of user experience can be frustrating, but until now we’ve had trouble measuring it quantitatively.

Metrics 145
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Windows Timer Resolution: The Great Rule Change

Randon ASCII

The behavior of the Windows scheduler changed significantly in Windows 10 2004, in a way that will break a few applications, and there appears to have been no announcement, and the documentation has not been updated. This isn’t the first time this has happened , but this change seems bigger than last time. The short version is that calls to timeBeginPeriod from one process now affect other processes less than they used to, but there is still an effect.

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BPF binaries: BTF, CO-RE, and the future of BPF perf tools

Brendan Gregg

Two new technologies, BTF and CO-RE, are paving the way for BPF to become a billion dollar industry. Right now there are many BPF (eBPF) startups building networking, security, and performance products (and more in stealth), yet requiring customers to install LLVM, Clang, and kernel headers – which can consume over 100 Mbytes of storage – to use BPF is an adoption drag.

C++ 144
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Unit Testing Log Messages Made Easy

DZone

As a Java Developer, we need to cover a lot of scenarios to ensure the quality of our software and catch bugs as soon as possible when introducing a new code. For 99% of all my use cases AssertJ, Junit, Mockito, and Wiremock are sufficient enough do cover the test cases. But for the other use cases, like unit testing info, debug or warn log messages, these frameworks don't help you out.

Testing 360
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Top 10 most popular Node.js frameworks for building web apps in 2020

Simform

In 2020, the demand for web applications has increased with more and more businesses employing them to deliver a better user experience. Looking at this rising demand, developers are continually testing different frameworks that offer advanced features to build web applications. The post Top 10 most popular Node.js frameworks for building web apps in 2020 appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

Testing 145
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For Sep 18th, 2020

High Scalability

Hey, it's HighScalability time! I can't wait for the duel. Just don't shoot into the air. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon this kind of Stuff won't happen. Know someone who could benefit from becoming one with the cloud? Of course you do. I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. On Amazon it has 167 mostly 5 star reviews.

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Optimized shot-based encodes for 4K: Now streaming!

The Netflix TechBlog

by Aditya Mavlankar , Liwei Guo , Anush Moorthy and Anne Aaron Netflix has an ever-expanding collection of titles which customers can enjoy in 4K resolution with a suitable device and subscription plan. Netflix creates premium bitstreams for those titles in addition to the catalog-wide 8-bit stream profiles¹. Premium features comprise a title-dependent combination of 10-bit bit-depth, 4K resolution, high frame rate (HFR) and high dynamic range (HDR) and pave the way for an extraordinary viewing

Testing 297
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Dynatrace Application Security protects your applications in complex cloud environments

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. In our increasingly digital world, the speed of innovation is key to business success. Cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes and OpenShift, help organizations accelerate innovation. Open source has also become a fundamental building block of the entire cloud-native stack. While leveraging cloud-native platforms, open-source and third-party libraries accelerate time to value significantly, it also creates new challenges for application security.

Cloud 290
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Using JSONB in PostgreSQL: How to Effectively Store & Index JSON Data in PostgreSQL

Scalegrid

JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. It is an open standard format which organizes data into key/value pairs and arrays detailed in RFC 7159. JSON is the most common format used by web services to exchange data, store documents, unstructured data, etc. In this post, we are going to show you tips and techniques on how to effectively store and index JSON data in PostgreSQL.

Storage 275
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When scaling your workload is a matter of saving lives

All Things Distributed

On March 16, 2020, at 9:26 PM, I received an urgent email from my friend DJ Patil, former White House Chief Data Scientist, Head of Technology for Devoted Health, a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Advisor to Venrock Partners. You don’t get that many titles after your name unless you’re pretty good at something. For DJ, that “something” is math and computer science.

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Visualize Data Structures in VSCode

Addy Osmani

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Introducing Domain-Oriented Microservice Architecture

Uber Engineering

Introduction. Recently there has been substantial discussion around the downsides of service oriented architectures and microservice architectures in particular. While only a few years ago, many people readily adopted microservice architectures due to the numerous benefits they provide such as … The post Introducing Domain-Oriented Microservice Architecture appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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The Cost of Javascript Frameworks

Tim Kadlec

There is no faster (pun intended) way to slow down a site than to use a bunch of JavaScript. The thing about JavaScript is you end up paying a performance tax no less than four times: The cost of downloading the file on the network. The cost of parsing and compiling the uncompressed file once downloaded. The cost of executing the JavaScript. The memory cost.

Mobile 145
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21 top performance engineering leaders to follow on Twitter

TechBeacon Testing

It's a strange time. We work from home. Political messages have invaded our social media. Layoffs over here, bailouts over there. Yet many of us still spend most of our days in front of a screen, writing software and helping improve it.

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Top 28 Selenium WebDriver Commands in NUnit For Test Automation

DZone

Selenium Framework interacts with the web browser via the Selenium WebDriver. It does so with the help of certain commands to automate browser actions such as open, close, or maximize the browser window. Also, you can handle different web elements or drop down elements browser to perform Selenium test automation. Different programming languages such as Python, Java, C#, etc uses an interface to interact with the browser.

Testing 353
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Fundamentals of table expressions, Part 6 – Recursive CTEs

SQL Performance

This article is the sixth part in a series about table expressions. Last month in Part 5 I covered the logical treatment of nonrecursive CTEs. This month I cover the logical treatment of recursive CTEs. I describe T-SQL’s support for recursive CTEs, as well as standard elements that are not yet supported by T-SQL. I do provide logically equivalent T-SQL workarounds for the unsupported elements.

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Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure

High Scalability

If you’re hosting your databases in the cloud, choosing the right cloud service provider is a significant decision to make for your long-term hosting costs. This is especially apparent in today's world where organizations are doing whatever they can to optimize and reduce their costs. Over the last few weeks, we have been inundated with requests from SMB customers looking to improve the ROI on their database hosting.

Azure 283
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Netflix Android and iOS Studio Apps?—?now powered by Kotlin Multiplatform

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix Android and iOS Studio Apps?—?now powered by Kotlin Multiplatform By David Henry & Mel Yahya Over the last few years Netflix has been developing a mobile app called Prodicle to innovate in the physical production of TV shows and movies. The world of physical production is fast-paced, and needs vary significantly between the country, region, and even from one production to the next.

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Billion-dollar problem solved through 21-day digital transformation

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. This spring, COVID-19 brought a sudden shock to all of us. Dynatrace customers were no exception; they experienced massive shocks to how they do business with customers, their market opportunities , and to how their employees work and live. While there have been many great stories of how customers relied on the Dynatrace platform as their “Single source of truth” during the chaos, and how it enabled them to deliver massive transformation seemingly over-night, one story of a banki