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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Performance Testing Testing Tools Testing Performance 230

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 19, 2023

To do so Netflix’s design required: An event based mechanism that could ingest information about application autoscaling groups. What was problematic about this design? Their attributes are used to scope permissions to varying degrees. A cleanup process to prune stale relationships from the database.

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Cache Google Open Source Systems 257

DZone

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Photo by Chris Linnett Architecture Based on the design defined in the diagram (Figure 1), we will be building Kumologica applications as a Docker container. 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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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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Storage Data Engineering Testing Code 213

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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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

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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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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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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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.

Java 214

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 214

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.

Network 223

Network Infrastructure Virtualization Metrics 223

Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2020

Microservice design principles force people to think along a spectrum of loose coupling. Introduces the Dynatrace long-term design pattern for full-stack observability, described below. Extensible admission lets us change the definition of a pod after the pod is authorized but before it’s scheduled to run. Dynatrace news.

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Government Innovation Strategy Speed 170

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2023

After pushing for a faster timeline, the White House told the government it had 60 days to issue a minimum definition of SBOMs. In this episode, we also discussed SBOMs in terms of the larger Secure by Design initiative. Secure by Design aims to make software inherently more secure out of the box. SBOM is one of them.”

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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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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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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.

Processing 273

Processing Transportation Entertainment Tuning 273

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.

DevOps 238

DevOps Cloud Innovation Tuning 238

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).

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Traffic Monitoring Mobile Design 173

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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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.

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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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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 81

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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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

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 278

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 220

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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Engineering Architecture Java Infrastructure 273

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 219

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 356

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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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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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

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.

Mobile 171

Mobile Monitoring Analytics Google 171

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

This article will list some of the use cases of AutoOptimize, discuss the design principles that help enhance efficiency, and present the high-level architecture. Other than these principles, there are some other design considerations to support and enable: Multi-tenancy with database and table prioritization.

Storage 214

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 214

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.

Programming 192

Programming Best Practices Innovation Analytics 192

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 202