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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

How would we test to see if there is any difference between a good sans serif and a serif typeface with users? This diversity adds to the difficulty and complexity of defining and testing typefaces. For a proper test setup you would need to modify one parameter while keeping every other parameter unchanged.

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

bpftrace has a test suite with over 200 tests. ## bpftrace/eBPF vs DTrace equivalency I'll show examples of bpftrace/eBPF vs DTrace in the sections that follow, but it's important to note that the eBPF engine was not created as a Linux version of DTrace. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it.

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Data Redundancy With the PostgreSQL Citus Extension

Percona

Depending on the configuration, one can tune a hardware RAID for either performance or redundancy. Now let’s stretch our imagination and consider a second method of high availability, ala Citus. The best way to describe the Citus way of doing things is to reflect how data is managed by a disk RAID array.

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KeyCDN Launches POP in Helsinki

KeyCDN

The use of online bank services, online shopping, and travel service browsing have increased significantly since spring 2004. Alternatively, If you would like to request a POP in a certain location or a new feature please let us know on our feature requests community page and stay tuned for more exciting announcements.

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What Is Hyperautomation?

O'Reilly

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?

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Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral

Smashing Magazine

The Face was a culture, fashion, and music magazine published in Britain until 2004 and Brody worked as its art director until 1986. While @media queries test whether a device is a printer or screen, and tests for height, width, or orientation, the @supports at-rule tests browsers’ features.

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

bpftrace has a test suite with over 200 tests. ## bpftrace/eBPF vs DTrace equivalency I'll show examples of bpftrace/eBPF vs DTrace in the sections that follow, but it's important to note that the eBPF engine was not created as a Linux version of DTrace. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it.

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