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Netflix: A Culture of Learning

The Netflix TechBlog

These data scientists design and execute tests to support learning agendas and contribute to decision making. our first investments in tooling to support A/B tests came way back in 2001. Early experimentation tooling at Netflix, from 2001. Netflix data scientists are active and valued participants in these forums.

Education 245
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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management

Smashing Magazine

” Quality assurance (QA) is defined as: “A program for the systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of a project, service, or facility to ensure that standards of quality are being met.” — “ Quality assurance ,” Merriam-Webster. VPTCS model © Élie Sloïm — Éric Gateau — 2001 — www.opquast.com.

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The Pros and Cons of Wildcard Indexes on MongoDB

Percona

Monitor the index size for all the collections for which you have a wildcard index. Percona Distribution for MongoDB is a freely available MongoDB database alternative, giving you a single solution that combines the best and most important enterprise components from the open source community, designed and tested to work together.

Database 111
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Fast Enough

Tim Kadlec

In his book, “Designing and Engineering Time” , Steven Seow talks about the 20% rule. As UIE pointed out back in 2001 , task completion has a huge impact on perceived performance. Monitoring these metrics over time will also help you to find the right balance between your visual aesthetics and performance.

Metrics 49
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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

The SE toolkit was fast, had no memory leaks (monitoring scripts could run for years) and let me implement lots of cool performance monitoring ideas. Allan also introduced me to Richard McDougall, who had worked with Allan for Sun Australia, and Richard visited for a rotation to build some monitoring tools.

Tuning 52