The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2020

Review how the incident process was performed, tracking actions to be performed after the incident, and driving learning through structuring informal knowledge. Jumping between different tools, ensuring data is correct and in sync is a low-value exercise for an incident commander. Perform Post Incident Review (PIR)? —?Review

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AWS Open Source Google Speed 204

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This ruling in itself raises many questions: how much creativity is needed, and is that the same kind of creativity that an artist exercises with a paintbrush? But reading texts has been part of the human learning process as long as reading has existed; and, while we pay to buy books, we don’t pay to learn from them.

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Artificial Intelligence Media Google Processing 99

O'Reilly

JUNE 13, 2023

The process of going through ChatGPT to Wolfram and back was also painfully slow, much slower than using Wolfram Alpha directly or writing a few lines of Python. There were citations, and they were real; ChatGPT didn’t link to the publications cited, but Google made it easy to find them.

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Percona

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The process using pg_upgrade is well documented , and you can easily find the instructions with little googling. In this blog post, I will show you a particular example I faced when working with an upgrade exercise using pg_upgrade. .” ” Let’s review the case. Example case.

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C++ Open Source Database Programming 81

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

is astonishingly dense with delayed features, inadvertantly emphasising just how far behind WebKit has remained for many years and how effective the Blink Launch Process has been in allowing Chromium to ship responsibly while consensus was witheld in standards by Apple. Regardless, Safari 16.4 31st : Web Share changes Feb. Safari 16.4

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Energy Games Engineering Design 79

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

LCP is relatively new, and has received a great deal of attention since it was introduced a couple of years ago as part of Google's Core Web Vitals. Fortunately, the process for identifying the low end of your site’s performance threshold is fairly straightforward. You need to look at your own real user data. (If

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Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 118

J. Paul Reed

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

People had such a positive experience and got so much value out of getting more information about their local job markets, I’ve been asked repeatedly to write up the process. I am often asked “How can you even think of doing this exercise?” or “Isn’t it difficult?” They use the experience to start figuring out how to fix this problem.

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DevOps C++ Google Engineering 74

O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

You might say that the outcome of this exercise is a performant predictive model. Second, this exercise in model-building was … rather tedious? You need to coordinate with stakeholders and product managers to suss out what kinds of models you need and how to embed them into the company’s processes.

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Tuning Open Source AWS Software 128

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Most Linux users cannot afford the amount of resource large enterprises like Google put into custom Linux performance tuning… For Google of course, there’s an economy of scale that makes all that effort worth it. It adds overhead to tests that exercise the kernel memory controller, even when cgroups aren’t being used.

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Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

I Also like to spend a little bit of time stretching and doing light exercises, reading or playing with my daughter before I dive into some work. I enjoy the process of distilling information from various sources and putting it into a format that our trainees can easily digest and comprehend.

Software 52

Software Software Software Engineering Infrastructure 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Ethics are an important part of human-computer interaction because they keep people at the heart of the design process. For example, try and recall the last time your team’s processes were audited for compliance against the company’s ethical standards. As UX practitioners, we know empathy is an important part of the design process.

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Code Design Education Government 137

MachMetrics

JANUARY 4, 2019

The PageSpeed Module is one of several free Google tools designed to help assess and improve page load speed times. Basically, Google offers a foundational code package called a module that you can then remake to suit your needs. Have you used the Google PageSpeed Module on your server? PageSpeed is an open source project.

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Speed Website Open Source Google 60

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

While Google’s SRE Handbook mostly focuses on the production use case for SLIs/SLOs, Keptn is “Shifting-Left” this approach and using SLIs/SLOs to enforce Quality Gates as part of your progressive delivery process. This will enable deep monitoring of those Java,NET, Node, processes as well as your web servers.

Engineering 195

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 195

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

While there isn’t an authoritative definition for the term, it shares its ethos with its predecessor, the DevOps movement in software engineering: by adopting well-defined processes, modern tooling, and automated workflows, we can streamline the process of moving from development to robust production deployments.

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DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 137

O'Reilly

JUNE 27, 2023

Does your company plan to release an AI chatbot, similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Bard? When a person clicked “submit,” the website would pass that form data through some backend code to process it—thereby sending an e-mail, creating an order, or storing a record in a database.

Social Media 88

Social Media Media Website Database 88

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse.

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Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

LCP is relatively new, and has received a great deal of attention since it was introduced a couple of years ago as part of Google's Core Web Vitals. Fortunately, the process for identifying the low end of your site’s performance threshold is fairly straightforward. You need to look at your own real user data. (If

Performance 52

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 52

Particular Software

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Decommissioning Public102 was an exercise in the mundane, gradually transitioning tiny service after tiny service to new homes over the course of weeks, as the development schedule allowed. When finally we had all the processes migrated, we celebrated as we decommissioned Public102. It's not so easy with a junk drawer server.

Wireless 52

Wireless DevOps Infrastructure Network 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

A lot of issues with that where they’re allowing someone to have more control because he could just not give me the answers and then I wouldn’t have access to our finances without having to call the bank or go through something and go through a different process. Lots of different issues with control. There’s no alert. Similar with Find My.

Design 98

Design Education Network Google 98

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Working with never-ending streams of data necessitates continuous processing of it, ensuring the system keeps up with the load patterns it is exposed to, and always provides real-time, up-to-date information. Sadly, it is very common to write logic that deeply couples the notion of IO with the processing of that IO.

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Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72