Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). In this article, I want to share ten tips that helped me grow and become a better designer, and I hope these tips will also help you while you’re trying to find more solid ground under your feet. Luis Ouriach.

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Design Website Social Media Best Practices 128

DZone

OCTOBER 28, 2024

We have seen multiple examples and use cases of building a low code API using Kumologica and running it on AWS lambda and on Azure function. In this article, we will be taking through the build and deployment of a simple hello world service Docker container inside AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) Fargate.

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DZone

AUGUST 9, 2023

This article proposes a technique using Docker, an open-source platform designed to automate application deployment, scaling, and management, as a solution to these challenges. The proposed methodology encapsulates the ML models and their environment into a standardized Docker container unit.

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Scalability Best Practices Open Source Virtualization 246

InfoQ

MAY 15, 2023

Adopting SMR technology and erasure codes, the system has extremely high durability guarantees but is cheaper than operating in the cloud. A horizontally scalable exabyte-scale blob storage system which operates out of multiple regions, Magic Pocket is used to store all of Dropbox’s data. By Facundo Agriel

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Storage Systems Scalability Cloud 114

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

That article was a deep dive into one of the more technical aspects of Dataflow and didn’t properly introduce this tool in the first place. One of the main reasons this feature exists is just like with food samples, to give you “a taste” of the production quality ETL code that you could encounter inside the Netflix data ecosystem.

Best Practices 362

Best Practices Code Testing Data Engineering 362

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). It doesn’t really matter if you’re a front-end dev, UX designer or content strategist, we’re certain you’ll find at least something to inspire you for the upcoming year.

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Jos

APRIL 6, 2018

We are explicit about our dependencies, so we know what code we need to run to run a specific component. Lazy-loading and bundle splitting can have a huge impact on page performance: less code requested, parsed, and executed. The article will be using Preact/React, yet the ideas can be applied to any other component library.

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Code Performance Media Google 147

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral. Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral. Local bands designed their own publicity and the mostly two-colour artwork was edgy and unpolished. Previously On “Inspired Design Decisions”. Andrew Clarke.

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Design Media Testing Entertainment 105

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. When a company’s digital representation lacks a dedicated UX/UI design team, it can be hard to produce something that stands out from the crowd. That’s why you need a good UI/UX designer. Nataliya Sambir. And vice versa.

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CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I began writing this article in early July 2023 but began to feel a little underwhelmed by it and so left it unfinished. in this article. Again, no compression is not a viable option and should be considered a bug—please don’t design your bundling strategy around the absence of compression. If you are still running HTTP/1.1,

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Cache Latency Strategy Speed 338

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. No matter what HMI we design, we need to allow users to take advantage of all that a system has to offer. Car HMI design is a relatively new field with its specifics that you need to be aware of.

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Design Entertainment Mobile Automotive 110

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography. Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Andrew Clarke.

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Design Media C++ Technology 118

Jos

APRIL 5, 2018

We are explicit about our dependencies, so we know what code we need to run to run a specific component. Lazy-loading and bundle splitting can have a huge impact on page performance: less code requested, parsed, and executed. The article will be using Preact/React, yet the ideas can be applied to any other component library.

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Code Performance Google Media 130

CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

A classic example is jQuery, that we might link to like so: There are a number of perceived benefits to doing this, but my aim later in this article is to either debunk these claims, or show how other costs vastly outweigh them. I won’t go into too much detail in this post, because I have a whole article. It’s convenient.

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Cache Latency Infrastructure Website 275

InfoQ

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Discover how Livi navigated the complexities of transitioning MJog, a legacy healthcare system, to a cloud-native architecture, sharing valuable insights for successful tech modernization. Our experience illustrates that transitioning from legacy systems to cloud-based microservices is not a one-time project but an ongoing journey.

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Healthcare Architecture Cloud Systems 96

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. However, their focus has always been on making a great-looking and effective design. Clean coding practices.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 111

Smashing Magazine

JULY 11, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. I loved making prints from linocuts, and in much the same way that I’m often entirely absorbed by writing code today, I regularly lost myself carving thousands of tiny marks until the floor was covered in sharp shards of lino.

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Design Media Mobile Energy 95

Highly Scalable

MARCH 1, 2012

In this article I provide a short comparison of NoSQL system families from the data modeling point of view and digest several common modeling techniques. I would like to thank Daniel Kirkdorffer who reviewed the article and cleaned up the grammar. The rest of this article describes concrete data modeling techniques and patterns.

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Database Ecommerce Efficiency Engineering 279

Strategic Tech

JULY 21, 2020

Before jumping into either of those scenarios, have a look at what Strategic Domain-Driven Design can offer you. This means a software architecture should be purposely designed for the most favourable business consequences. It also means that understanding the business model is a pre-requisite for designing a software architecture.

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Architecture Design Software Architecture Strategy 98

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Note that most of the changes we’ve introduced so far and those that are detailed below are all designed to be invisible to you, taking place entirely automatically in the background. In this article we’ll share highlights about two increments that are likely to fall into the “barely noticeable” category.

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Best Practices Storage Java Benchmarking 210

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

any business logic code in a raw (e.g. The design of a cron job is simple, you take some system command, you pick the schedule to run it on and you are done. Or what if Alice wanted to add new backup functionality and she accidentally broke existing code while updating it? SQL) or compiled (e.g. data pipeline ?—?a workflow ?—?see

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Storage Data Engineering Testing Code 213

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Creating Custom Emmet Snippets In VS Code. Creating Custom Emmet Snippets In VS Code. Until recently, I would just copy and paste the boilerplate whenever I needed it, but I’ve decided to improve my workflow by adding it as a snippet to VS Code — the editor of my choice. Snippets And Abbreviations In Visual Studio Code.

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DZone

APRIL 29, 2020

In this article, we are going to discuss how we troubleshoot a CPU spike problem that surfaced in a major trading application in North America. This team didn’t make any new code deployment, any environmental changes, they didn’t flip any flag settings – but all of a sudden the CPU started to spike up.

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Traffic Code Java Design 207

Scalegrid

MAY 2, 2019

In this post, we show you how to connect to an SSL-enabled MongoDB replica set configured with self-signed certificates using PyMongo, and how to test MongoDB failover behavior in your code. Here’s the relevant part of test code we will use to test our MongoDB failover behavior: import logging import traceback. import pymongo.

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Testing Network Database Servers 55

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. UX design teams are passionate about our approach to solving problems and providing users with experiences that lead to their desired outcomes. UX teams should consider it a mandatory step in designing a product.

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Design Testing Education Processing 101

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

However, with our rapid product innovation speed, the whole approach experienced significant challenges: Business Complexity: The existing SKU management solution was designed years ago when the engagement rules were simple?—?three We’ll skip over Hendrix’s specific details and focus on the SKU platform adoption in this article for brevity.

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Mobile Engineering Infrastructure Scalability 220

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

On the Android team, while most of our time is spent working on the app, we are also responsible for maintaining this backend that our app communicates with, and its orchestration code. Image taken from a previously published blog post As you can see, our code was just a part (#2 in the diagram) of this monolithic service.

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Latency Cache Java Traffic 243

Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Responsive design is an approach to design websites such that it responds well on all screen sizes, platforms, and orientations. This approach eliminates the need to design a new set of code for each new device. However, some content cannot be displayed using responsive design tools. Visual testing and review.

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Design Testing Website Testing Tools 88

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. It’s a common misconception that the code which is produced by the framework build tools (Webpack, for example) is fully optimized and cannot be improved upon any further. The answer lies in code-splitting.

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Code Performance Network Website 91

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

There was something gratifying in taking a code that takes minutes to run and make it run in a handful seconds. UI/UX : There is usually a designer and/or UX person that sets the look & feel and information architecture. They will provide a unique point of view when building features with designers and stakeholders.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

Today we’re proud to announce the new Dynatrace Operator, designed from the ground up to handle the lifecycle of OneAgent, Kubernetes API monitoring, OneAgent traffic routing, and all future containerized componentry such as the forthcoming extension framework. See details further down in this article.

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Cloud Traffic Monitoring Open Source 234

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 23, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseperable. Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseperable. I replaced them with books on art direction, editorial, and graphic design. Previously On “Inspired Design Decisions”.

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Design Media Energy Availability 110

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Procedural language debugger helps you to debug your code. You can easily create and edit SQL statements with its visual SQL builder, and the powerful code auto-completion saves you a lot of time and helps you avoid mistakes. It can detect bugs in your code immediately and suggest the best options to fix them as well.

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Open Source Database Azure Cloud 262

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

my about page ), and article pages, like this one you’re reading right now; an ecommerce site would have a homepage, a product listings page (PLP), a product details page (PDP), and a search results page (SRP). I want to be able to form hypotheses and draw conclusions without viewing a single URL or a line of source code. Final Word.

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Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics 328

CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

These intermediates fall outside of the scope of this article, but if you’ve ever run a traceroute , you’re on the right lines. RTT is designed to replace Effective Connection Type (ECT) with higher resolution timing information. That’s exactly what this article is about. Where Does CrUX’s RTT Data Come From?

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Latency Cache Transportation Mobile 215

DZone

MAY 16, 2024

It creates documentation by analyzing interfaces and comments in the source code and supports a variety of document output formats, including Markdown , HTML5 , OpenAPI 3.0 , and more. This article will introduce how to use smart-doc and JMeter for effective performance testing.

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Java Performance Testing Efficiency Testing 130

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form. Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form. With one or two occasional exceptions, I’ve spent the past twenty-two years designing for countless clients. I know many designers who work in-house.

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