The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

We partnered with Netflix’s Developer Experience (DevEx) team to build out documentation, training materials, and tutorials for developers. We engaged with them to determine graph schema best practices to best suit the needs of Studio Engineering.

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High Scalability

JULY 25, 2018

It's designed to sit next to the original on the bookshelf and for folks to bounce between them -- moving between principle and practice. It's organized into three different parts: Foundations, and Practices, Processes. Introducing Non-Abstract Large System Design. Configuration Design and Best Practices.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers. Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers. In the past couple of years, it’s no secret that our design tools have exponentially evolved. How do we bridge this gap between what is designed over what is developed without the overhead of constantly doing reviews?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

It’s also critical to have a strategy in place to address these outages, including both documented remediation processes and an observability platform to help you proactively identify and resolve issues to minimize customer and business impact. This often occurs during major events, promotions, or unexpected surges in usage.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 26, 2024

Pillar 1: ICT risk management Organizations must document a framework to identify and thoroughly assess potential ICT risks that could have operational effects on financial services. Weave automated incident management and reporting into SRE practices to prevent outages before they occur.

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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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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. On the other hand, MongoDB schema design takes a document-oriented approach.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

Fact #1: AWS EC2 outage properly documented. As a general best practice, Synthetic Tests are great to validate your core use cases are always working as expected. For more information check out our documentation on fault domain awareness such as rack aware managed deployments. Ready to learn more? Then read on!

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Scalegrid

MARCH 8, 2024

These logs meticulously document every modification executed within the database in the data directory, providing essential incremental updates that facilitate time-specific recovery efforts. STATEMENT level – at which only SQL statements causing changes in data are documented succinctly.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Many of these projects are under constant development by dedicated teams with their own business goals and development best practices, such as the system that supports our content decision makers , or the system that ranks which language subtitles are most valuable for a specific piece ofcontent.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Feature Overview Reproducibility Polynote promotes notebook reproducibility by design. By taking a cell’s position in the notebook into account when executing it, Polynote helps prevent bad practices that make notebooks difficult to re-run from the top. Next, we’ll go through a deeper dive of Polynote’s features.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Offset-based involves utilizing functions such as skip , limit and a query which indicates how many documents should be skipped or returned at maximum. Its use includes the limit method, which establishes how many documents will be returned in a query result. This can be expressed as db.collection_name.find().limit(number).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Existing best practices and guidance, such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), give us a solid foundation for inclusive design and already incorporate many details that affect dyslexic readers. document which provides extended commentary on the guidelines. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Our experience using GQLMS for rapid proof-of-concept applications confirmed two theories regarding the advertised benefits of GraphQL: The GraphiQL IDE displays any available GraphQL documentation right alongside the schema, dramatically improving developer ergonomics for API consumers (in contrast to the best-in-class Swagger UI ).

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

And UX designers can use that data to better understand how users interact with an application and how developers can streamline the interface. Best practices for RUM. To leverage the greatest benefits of real user monitoring, keep in mind several best practices. Establish business objectives for how you use RUM.

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Monitoring Mobile Latency Best Practices 191

Dynatrace

JULY 10, 2019

Before writing a OneAgent plugin, it’s always best practice to check that the metric(s) you want to add are not already in Dynatrace. With insights from Dynatrace into network latency and utilization of your cloud resources, you can design your scaling mechanisms and save on costly CPU hours. Extending Dynatrace is easy!

Java 144

Java Best Practices Metrics Azure 144

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Best practice tip : It is always advisable to use secondary servers for backups to avoid unnecessary performance degradation on the PRIMARY node. Best practice tip : Use PBM to time huge backup sets.

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

Component-based design, enabled and enforced by modern JavaScript frameworks, does not only provide great developer experiences and project ergonomics when used in a smart way, but it can also offer advantages for accessibility. Instead, they are checking a document for content and functionality they are interested in.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

Traps in this area can be caused by following best practices that are not suitable for tests. This can occur for various reasons, but it usually happens when you try to take an easy, seemingly convenient shortcut, disregarding testing best practices. Any test, no matter the type, should be designed plain and simple.

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Testing Best Practices Code Design 124

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Whether you’re just starting out with Figma or have been using it for a good while now, this post will give you just enough pointers to make your design process faster and smoother. design tokens. design systems. responsive design and testing. responsive design and testing. Table of Contents. accessibility.

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Google Design Code Mobile 145

Scalegrid

APRIL 5, 2024

As additional master nodes join the group of existing ones, they receive newly designated ranges of these hash slots. If you’re just starting, sign up for a free 30-day trial on the ScaleGrid console, and check out this documentation on creating your first ScaleGrid for Redis deployment. Redis-rb redis-rb versions 4.1.0

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things.

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Engineering Google Website Mobile 132

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

The goal of this experience from a UX design perspective was to bring together a tightly-related set of original titles that, though distinct entities on their own, also share a connected universe. We hypothesized this design would net a far greater visual impact than if the titles were distributed individually throughout the page.

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Cache Design Testing Development 167

Tim Kadlec

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

I’ve seen plenty of instances where the embedded thumbnail (that the designers and developers didn’t even know was there) weighed more than the image itself! For a long time, putting height and width attributes on your image was more or less a best practice. appendChild ( reportingAlerts ); const alertBox = document.

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Performance Media Best Practices Development 136

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

How To Build An Ethical User Research Practice At Any Organization. Ethics are an important part of human-computer interaction because they keep people at the heart of the design process. Unethical practices at companies lead to the creation of technology that we all use but often neglect the influence of those intended to serve.

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Code Design Education Government 139

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

If you’re not a developer/designer, you may not be familiar with the Chrome DevTools and the extremely powerful Google Lighthouse Audits that can be found inside. It offers audits for best practices, accessibility, progressive web apps, SEO and of course, performance. Best Practices. Performance.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

There are a couple of questions we have to consider when organizing style within Next.js: How can we fit within the conventions/best practices of the framework? To solve the second problem, I take an approach that can be summarized in four pieces: Design tokens. Design Tokens. Not only does Next.js Global styles.

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Website Design Best Practices Code 143

The Morning Paper

JULY 7, 2019

More specifically, we’ll be looking at the results of an internal study with over 500 participants designed to figure out how product development and software engineering is changing at Microsoft with the rise of AI and ML. Learnings and emerging best practices. Today it’s the turn of Microsoft.

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Software Engineering Engineering Software Software 92

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve focused on making the web design responsive to ensure that the widest audience of visitors can access your content. You’ve agonized over design patterns and usability. Ken Harker.

Website 133

Website Design Network Testing 133

Percona

AUGUST 1, 2023

Because of its NoSQL origin and document architecture design, MongoDB is much more flexible and scalable than SQL databases such as MySQL. Whether it’s for fun or for money, this is not the first reported attack, and it won’t be the last (of 2020). MongoDB provides support for authentication on a per-database level.

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Best Practices Transportation Open Source Database 41

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2024

Best Practices for Access Control In RabbitMQ, it is essential to implement authentication and authorization with the principle of least privilege as a guiding force. During the startup process and subsequent operation, RabbitMQ documents vital details regarding the configuration and status of each node.

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SQL Performance

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The designers of SQL chose not to get into the distinction of applicable versus inapplicable missing values, and provided us with the NULL as a marker for any kind of missing value. For the most part, SQL was designed to assume that NULLs represent the Missing But Applicable kind of missing value. However, NOT UNKNOWN remains UNKNOWN.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Primary keys play an indispensable role in sound database design by uniquely identifying individual rows and significantly enhancing data retrieval, manipulation, and overall system performance. Enforcing the presence of primary keys promotes better database design and minimizes the potential pitfalls associated with missing primary keys.

Database 107

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Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Our goal with this post is to equip you with a comprehensive understanding of the steps, best practices, and pros and cons to ensure a smooth — and successful — transition to an open source database environment. What is a database migration service? What are the 3 main database migration strategies?

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Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A Dedicated Log Volume (DLV) is a specialized storage volume designed to house database transaction logs separately from the volume containing the database tables. Thus, using Dedicated Log Volumes (DLVs), though new in AWS RDS, has been one of the recommended best practices and is a welcome setup improvement for your RDS instance.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

When designing cards, you might want a border-radius to have a quite sizeable value when there is enough space to display it along with other cards. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smart Interface Design Patterns , with Vitaly Friedman. With 100s of real-life examples , guidelines and best practices that you can apply right away.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Feature Overview Reproducibility Polynote promotes notebook reproducibility by design. By taking a cell’s position in the notebook into account when executing it, Polynote helps prevent bad practices that make notebooks difficult to re-run from the top. Next, we’ll go through a deeper dive of Polynote’s features.

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