The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

We use A/B tests to introduce new product features, such as our daily Top 10 row that help our members discover their next favorite show. We worked in different industries before joining Netflix, including tech, entertainment, retail, science policy, and research. Learning through data is in Netflix’s DNA.

Analytics 207

Analytics C++ Innovation Engineering 207

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

To this, they responded that as they were in the fashion retail business , they weren’t doing containers and didn’t think they’ll ever make it to become cloud-native. Why are containers so hot?? . ?

Google 130

Google Ecommerce DevOps Cloud 130

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

we also: Launched a series of new and improved dashboards to help you identify and fix your performance issues more quickly and efficiently (More on those below.). Expanded our test agent locations to bring you even more places to test from worldwide. Contextual Web Vitals recommendations. Expanded Industry Speed Benchmarks.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The system is being tested with anonymized data, and could be used, for example, as a trusted central repository for vaccination, even if those vaccines were given by different providers. The Swedish land registry authority, Lantmäteriet, has, with a diverse team of partners, been testing land registry on a private blockchain.

Blockchain 63

Blockchain Retail Innovation Healthcare 63

Testlodge

MARCH 21, 2018

Behavioral Driven Development (BDD) is a software development approach that has evolved from TDD (Test Driven Development). In both development approaches, tests are written ahead of the code, but in BDD, tests are more user-focused and based on the system’s behavior. Cucumber is a test framework that supports BDD.

Development 59

Development Retail Testing Software 59

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

These may get populated during testing, but we can clear them at any time via Application > Storage > Clear Site Data in DevTools. While writing this post, I tested interactions on a few sites and chose three examples that illustrate the common issues I see. Opening a guest profile in Chrome 2.

Analytics 91

Analytics Processing Google Mobile 91

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

This technique enables participants to log interactions with others so that they can discover if they are in a chain of contacts originating with someone, often a stranger, who subsequently tests positive for the virus. This is accomplished in advance of a positive test, enabling immediate notifications when the need arises.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

This technique enables participants to log interactions with others so that they can discover if they are in a chain of contacts originating with someone, often a stranger, who subsequently tests positive for the virus. This is accomplished in advance of a positive test, enabling immediate notifications when the need arises.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

This technique enables participants to log interactions with others so that they can discover if they are in a chain of contacts originating with someone, often a stranger, who subsequently tests positive for the virus. This is accomplished in advance of a positive test, enabling immediate notifications when the need arises.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

O'Reilly Software

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

By encapsulating tasks into separate services, parts of an application can be developed independently, deployed efficiently as containers, and scaled out automatically with new instances as traffic grows. For instance, the verbs on a retail site might include browsing, adding to a shopping cart, buying, and rating. The design stage.

Development 69

Development Retail Traffic Virtualization 69

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

It can be used to decouple your frontend from your backend and improve server efficiency. Customer Service Chatbots Speaking of which, artificial intelligence has evolved to the point that bots can answer customers’ questions and solve problems more efficiently than humans.

Development 101

Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

Edge Perspectives

JANUARY 21, 2019

I recently wrote a blog post suggesting that the ultimate test of transformation is whether the caterpillar became a butterfly – is it so different that it’s unrecognizable? But the bottom line is that the scalable efficiency model is ultimately a diminishing returns model. Why go through the traumatic effort to transform?

Innovation 104

Innovation Scalability Efficiency Mobile 104

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Example: Chatbots, Alexa, Siri Another application of NLP is in the software testing domain where applications are tested in a plain natural language without any coding. Example: Testsigma ’s simple scriptless approach to testing. Check out more about NLP based test development. The apps designed are more user-centric.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Programming Logistics 52

O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

There have also been colorful conversations about whether GPT-3 can pass the Turing test, or whether it has achieved a notional understanding of consciousness, even amongst AI scientists who know the technical mechanics. When the human tries to stump the bot by texting “Testing what is 2+2?,” Among other things.

Social Media 138

Social Media Media Internet Internet 138

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Commonly used ones are fetch , for requesting for resources, IntersectionObserver , for efficiently observing the visibility of elements, and the URL specification, which makes reading and manipulation of URLs on the web easier. A Practical Guide To Shipping Efficient Code. js', }, module: { rules: [ { test: /.jsx?$/,

Code 58

Code Retail Mobile Website 58

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. Categories can contain thousands of products and user cannot efficiently search though this array without powerful tools. Data Loading Pipeline allows one to organize efficient data loading in a multithreaded environment.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

SQL Performance

AUGUST 23, 2019

We test for matches by applying the same hash functions to each probe-side value. Bloom filters present a space- and time-efficient alternative when a simple bitmap is infeasible due to space requirements. This decompression can be performed efficiently using SIMD instructions, but it is still extra work.

Servers 75

Servers Engineering Efficiency Retail 75

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

It contains no third party code, which makes for easy testing in a quiet environment. To test each of the three mobile nav implementations on each device, I followed this procedure: I used remote debugging in Chrome on macOS for the Nokia 2. React does alright here, but Preact seems to handle event listeners a bit more efficiently.

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 28, 2007

That is, a team can work in such a way that it is less likely to cause problems for itself, by e.g., writing unit tests, having continuous integration, developing to finely grained statements of business functionality, embedding QA in the development team, and so forth. Doing these isn’t the same as increasing the probability of success.

Government 40

Government Retail Energy Code 40

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

A good litmus test has been that if you need to SSH into a server or an instance, you still have more to automate. This was a lesson we had already learned from our experiences with Amazon retail, but it became even more important for AWS’s API-centric business. APIs are forever.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Selenium , the first tool for automated browser testing (2004), could be programmed to find fields on a web page, click on them or insert text, click “submit,” scrape the resulting web page, and collect results. But the core of the process is simple, and hasn’t changed much since the early days of web testing. What’s required?

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2014

Although this may be the case, generally speaking a business is less effective if it's primary labor force consists of people who are concrete thinkers, and it is less efficient if its secondary labor are abstract thinkers. The economics of this arrangement favor the few who design over the many who build.

Software 49

Software Software Development Retail 49

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

Oddly, about 3% of non-adopters cited cost as a primary reason not to move workloads to cloud; cost-efficiency is usually touted as one of cloud’s most attractive features. Reasons why organizations have not adopted cloud computing (represents respondents who answered no to the question “Does your organization use cloud computing?”).

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141