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Site Reliability Engineering

DZone

Bridging the gap between development and operations, SRE is a set of principles and practices that aims to create scalable and highly reliable software systems. The main goal is to create automated solutions for operational aspects such as on-call monitoring, performance tuning, incident response, and capacity planning.

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All of Netflix’s HDR video streaming is now dynamically optimized

The Netflix TechBlog

Overall, the improvements can be summarized as: 40% fewer rebuffers Higher video quality for both bandwidth-constrained as well as unconstrained sessions Lower initial bitrate Higher initial quality Lower play delay Less variation in delivered video quality Lower Internet data usage, especially on mobiles and tablets Will HDR-VMAF be open-source?

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Protect your organization against zero-day vulnerabilities

Dynatrace

Zero day refers to security vulnerabilities that are discovered in software when teams had “zero days” to work on an update or a patch to remediate the issue and, hence, are already at risk. If a malicious attacker can identify a key software vulnerability, they can exploit the vulnerability, allowing them to gain access to your systems.

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Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud

The Morning Paper

Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud Kleppmann et al., If you start reading this paper you could be lost for hours following all the interesting links and ideas, and end up even more dissatisfied than you already are with the state of software today. Local-first software ideals. It should be fast.

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How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. I founded Instant Domain Search in 2005 and kept it as a side-hustle while I worked on a Y Combinator company (Snipshot, W06), before working as a software engineer at Facebook. We still have a lot of work to do! Large preview ).

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Apple Is Not Defending Browser Engine Choice

Alex Russell

And then you need infrastructure; lots of it. The latest consolidated financials (PDF) are from 2020 and show that, without marketing expenses, Mozilla spends between $380 and $430 million US per year on software development. Browser vendors fund their industrial-scale software engineering projects through integrations.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Patrick is a London-based software developer who specializes in web performance and who describes himself as enjoying “working the entire stack, back-end to front-end, CDN to server.”