Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. After all, as designers and developers, we want to make it more difficult for our users to make mistakes. Part Of: Design Patterns. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-08-05T13:30:00+00:00. 2021-08-05T17:04:11+00:00. Part 1: Perfect Accordion.

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DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

For example, the gaming app has to present definite actions to bring the right experience. It is almost a part of the wider performance engineering portrait, concentrating on performance glitches in the architecture and design of any software. Confirming scalability, dependability, stability, and speed of the app is crucial.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 31, 2020

By investigating these questions, we distilled these two pain points: Following definition of application detection rules, some users don’t see traffic from the correct URLs in the corresponding Dynatrace applications (i.e., the application profiles that are listed on the Applications page).

Traffic 246

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Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2021

” As in the case of regular SaaS services, software updates happen as soon as possible and are designed to go relatively unnoticed in the background. Therefore, regardless if you are a SaaS or Managed customer, we designed the OneAgent update experience to be smooth and automated following the release of each new version.

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Processing Monitoring Performance Availability 264

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

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. The important thing is that this business logic can be built in a separate repository and maintained independently from the workflow definition. workflow ?—?see Example: 0 0 * * MON /home/alice/backup.sh

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. In this episode, we’re talking about designing for safety. What does it mean to consider vulnerable users in our designs? Design for Safety from A Book Apart. Drew McLellan.

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Design Education Processing Network 110

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

framework , the SNMP extensions are a bundle of everything that’s needed (DataSource configuration, a dashboard template, a unified analysis page template, topology definition, entity extraction rules, relevant metric definitions and more) to get going with monitoring. Accelerated troubleshooting with topology awareness.

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Network Infrastructure Virtualization Metrics 246

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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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

From Good To Great In Dashboard Design: Research, Decluttering And Data Viz. From Good To Great In Dashboard Design: Research, Decluttering And Data Viz. Tossing out suboptimal parts of our design can be a daunting task, especially after you’ve invested hours of work into it. Definition. Design Validation.

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Dynatrace

MAY 7, 2024

Fluent Bit is a telemetry agent designed to receive data (logs, traces, and metrics), process or modify it, and export it to a destination. Fluent Bit was designed to help you adjust your data and add the proper context, which can be helpful in the observability backend. What’s the difference between Fluent Bit and Fluentd?

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Best Practices IoT Metrics Storage 279

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. Suzanne Scacca.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language. But these are definitely ruled out for enterprise applications due to the complexity in development, maintainability, need for object orientation, and interoperability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

We want users to rely on shared templates and reuse their workflow definitions across their team, saving time and effort on creating the same functionality. Maestro high level architecture In Maestro, a workflow is a DAG (Directed acyclic graph) of individual units of job definition called Steps.

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Dynatrace

JULY 20, 2022

Kubernetes resource adoption —Act on external, holistic, and customer-centric behavior observations—rather than on only internal parameters—and automatically roll out Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) to designated environments.

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DevOps Cloud Innovation Tuning 246

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

Most organizations have a grab bag of monitoring tools, each designed for a specific use case. In this scenario, every team has an answer, but no one has the definitive answer. Various job roles such as DBAs, UX designers, and mobile app developers need access to different types of data to carry out their tasks.

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Mobile Monitoring Analytics Google 236

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

Data Mesh Overview A New Definition Of Data Mesh Previously, we defined Data Mesh as a fully managed, streaming data pipeline product used for enabling Change Data Capture (CDC) use cases. This design enables us to reuse and share data as much as possible. This article gives an overview of the system.

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Processing Transportation Entertainment Tuning 272

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 6, 2025

While this is a critical business need and we definitely should solve it, its essential to evaluate how it stacks up against other priorities across different areas of the organization. Up next In the next iteration we will talk about how to design an observability endpoint that works for all personalization systems.

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Scalability Cache Engineering Systems 215

Dynatrace

JUNE 14, 2023

“The historical definition of observability is transforming,” Clayton said. These areas together underpin the new Dynatrace Value Incentive Partner Program (VIPP), which we designed to provide more opportunities, more services, and more benefits to our partners. Learn more about the Dynatrace Partner Services Endorsement Program.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Alexey Brodovitch. Inspired Design Decisions: Alexey Brodovitch. Before writing Art Direction for the Web , I began to study Alexey Brodovitch when I became fascinated by editorial and magazine design. This book will make a fabulous addition to your design collection. Andrew Clarke.

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Design Media Website Development 84

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. Other Dynatrace components, like ActiveGate, are deployed separately.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

If you start catching bugs early, it will save you tons of time fixing them later.nn> Design reviewnnIt’s a very powerful tool when used in a good way. I really like what one of the smartest people with whom I worked said: “A good design is a design where you can see the code”. You may think that you know how the system works.

Software 245

Software Software Code Design 245

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Instead, the schema gets generated at runtime based on definitions in code. At Netflix we strongly prefer schema-first development because: The schema design is front and center of the developer experience. graphql-java is most popular for implementing schema-first GraphQL APIs in Java, but is designed to be a low level library.

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Open Source Java Architecture Metrics 246

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

You are designing a learning system to forecast Service Level Agreement (SLA) violations and would want to factor in all upstream dependencies and corresponding historical states. Design a flexible data model ? —?Represent Therefore, the ingestion approach for data lineage is designed to work with many disparate data sources.

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Infrastructure Big Data Transportation Architecture 222

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A data lakehouse addresses these limitations and introduces an entirely new architectural design. A schema is a fixed definition to organize data in certain fields. This openness is accompanied by reduced data quality which limits the value of analyses run on data lakes. High-performance analytics—no indexing required.

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Artificial Intelligence Analytics Storage Architecture 290

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

Dynatrace Synthetic Test definitions are version control in Git, as YAML gets automatically rolled out as part of their delivery automation, e.g.: via Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Keptn. This story proves that high availability and resiliency must be features and considerations you plan from the start when designing a distributed system.

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AWS Traffic Architecture Azure 246

Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2023

But “the benefits are definitely worth the effort, provided you do it in a strategic way,” Bollampally said. Such testing is critical to identifying customer shopping patterns that inform decisions about application design and user experience. But it also introduces processing overhead that can drag down performance.

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Cloud Ecommerce Performance Retail 243

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

While Federico definitely has good points there, there is some truth in these myths too. The open source load testing tools definitely advanced a lot in both maturity and functionality – but there are many areas where they are behind best commercial tools (and if it matters for a specific user is another subject – for some it may not).

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Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

Thair elaborated on the concept of “designing for operations” with a car analogy. That’s not good design for Ops,” he said. One of the main roadblocks that arises with a broader definition for DevOps is responsibility. How do [developers] make the things that are most likely to break, easily accessible?”

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DevOps Engineering Innovation Best Practices 240

Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2020

It would definitely make my life easier! I wanted a rather lightweight design that is yet versatile. Although there are tons of API gateway libraries for golang out there, most of them are designed for a different use case. Able to detect and adopt any new or removed Dynatrace Environment automatically.

Cache 289

Cache Serverless Efficiency Tuning 289

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Since the definition of access management through policies provides increased flexibility, increased granularity now supports a variety of permission scenarios. The new policy service was designed with API foremost in mind, so everything that happens in the web UI is tied to the underlying policy management API. Policy format.

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Availability Metrics Systems Design 245

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 Rule owners are responsible for making sure the requirements match the rule definition and request context.

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Mobile Engineering Infrastructure Scalability 214

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

The Studio Search platform was designed to take a portion of the federated graph, a subgraph rooted at an entity of interest, and make it searchable. In fact, every entity owning service could be required to do this work. This common problem of making a federated graph searchable led to the creation of Studio Search.

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CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

We’ve fetched the file asynchronously but had zero impact on performance, because anything synchronous in the is render-blocking by definition. This is what the change in font-size that I mentioned earlier was designed for. Let’s take some very exaggerated but very simple math: If it takes 1s to parse your and 0.5s

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Media Cache Network Website 355

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In this post, we dive deep into how Netflix’s KV abstraction works, the architectural principles guiding its design, the challenges we faced in scaling diverse use cases, and the technical innovations that have allowed us to achieve the performance and reliability required by Netflix’s global operations.

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Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 256

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

Working on my PhD, I was using optimization techniques to design radiotherapy fractionation schemes to improve the results of clinical practices. My academic credentials definitely helped on the technical side. How do you, as a data scientist, fill in the pieces between product, engineering, and design?

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Analytics C++ Innovation Engineering 212

Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Domain-Driven Design is an approach to designing systems, usually software, that emphasises creating a common language between domain experts and system builders. However, some concepts in DDD do not have a clear definition and are highly implicit. This definition of a domain is very fuzzy. Thank you to all involved.

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Design Strategy Systems Architecture 98

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2023

Annotations Sometimes people describe annotations as tags but that is a limited definition. Average search latency Semantic search latency Scaling One of the key challenges while designing the annotation service is to handle the scaling requirements with the growing Netflix movie catalog and ML algorithms.

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Scalability Latency Media Architecture 287