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.

Design 114

Design Website Efficiency Processing 114

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 1, 2018

Sam Newman provides a succinct definition of microservices in Building Microservices : “Microservices are small, autonomous services that work together.”. Built and released with automated processes. Despite a drive for clear, modular monolithic codebases, all too often these arbitrary in-process boundaries break down.

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Code Systems 80

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. As it turns out, we do so just to avoid any disruptions or interruptions of the ongoing process.

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Design Transportation Code Systems 145

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.

Design 101

Design Education Network Processing 101

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. Ask yourself, how much data should Fluent Bit process?

Best Practices 256

Best Practices IoT Metrics Storage 256

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, Friedman explained the challenges with this process, namely balancing perspectives from across government and industry. SBOM is one of them.” government.

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Government Software Software Tuning 194

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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Design Best Practices Efficiency Testing 97

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Obviously not all tools are made with the same use case in mind, so we are planning to add more code samples for other (than classical batch ETL) data processing purposes, e.g. Machine Learning model building and scoring. Workflow Definitions Below you can see a typical file structure of a sample workflow package written in SparkSQL. ???

Best Practices 360

Best Practices Code Testing Data Engineering 360

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. A cleanup process to prune stale relationships from the database. What was problematic about this design? Their attributes are used to scope permissions to varying degrees.

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Cache Google Open Source Systems 252

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 207

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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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For example, a workflow to backfill hourly data for the past five years can lead to 43800 jobs (24 * 365 * 5), each of which processes data for an hour. We would like our users to focus on their business logic and let the orchestrator solve cross-cutting concerns like scheduling, processing, error handling, security etc.

Java 208

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 208

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This document details the intriguing process of debugging this issue, all the way from the UI down to the Linux kernel. Restarting the ipykernel process, which runs the Notebook, might temporarily alleviate the problem, but the frustration persists as more notebooks are run. the JupyterLab process) rather than the network.

Latency 211

Latency Virtualization Traffic Processing 211

Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

Over the past few years I have focused much of my learning and work choices around learning about the design of sociotechnical systems?—?how how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. As part of good design, we should consider the effects of changing all of these variables. isolate high risk areas).

Design 45

Design Software Architecture Strategy Technology 45

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. Copies image layer into Docker image during build process. Dynatrace news. Kubernetes can be a confounding platform for system architects.

Government 170

Government Innovation Strategy Speed 170

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.

Design 81

Design Media Website Development 81

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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Website Speed Mobile Design 111

Dynatrace

JULY 20, 2022

Process restarts (for example, JVM memory leaks) —Trigger a service restart or related actions for applications with underlying bug fixes that have been deprioritized or delayed.

DevOps 238

DevOps Cloud Innovation Tuning 238

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A data lakehouse addresses these limitations and introduces an entirely new architectural design. As a result, we created Grail with three different building blocks, each serving a special duty: Ingest and process. Ingest and process with Grail. A schema is a fixed definition to organize data in certain fields.

Artificial Intelligence 278

Artificial Intelligence Analytics Storage Architecture 278

DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It’s much better to build your process around quality checks than retrofit these checks into the existent process. NIST did classic research to show that catching bugs at the beginning of the development process could be more than ten times cheaper than if a bug reaches production. There are so many benefits. A side note.

Software 245

Software Software Code Design 245

Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2023

But “the benefits are definitely worth the effort, provided you do it in a strategic way,” Bollampally said. Further, Tractor Supply’s transition to Kubernetes introduced many new processes—particularly regarding security. “At one point, we saw a process that was causing a lot of CPU contention.

Cloud 183

Cloud Ecommerce Performance Retail 183

Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Team Topologies has significantly advanced the discussion on organisation design for technology companies. I’m not precious about any of the definition used in this article. My goal is to create common ground so that we can discuss the trade-offs of organisational design patterns. Processes are also a hierarchical concept.

Architecture 98

Architecture Design Technology Technology 98

Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

In Domain-Driven Design, a large system is decomposed into bounded contexts , which become natural boundaries in code as microservices and as teams in the organisation. The Bounded Context Design Canvas I designed this canvas based on the typical flow of strategic DDD workshops I run publicly and privately.

Design 76

Design Systems Processing Strategy 76

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

By leveraging the Dynatrace Operator and Dynatrace capabilities on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power, customers can accelerate their modernization to hybrid cloud and increase operational efficiencies with greater visibility across the full stack from hardware through application processes.

Architecture 178

Architecture Availability Infrastructure Monitoring 178

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 22, 2024

When I graduated with my computer science degree, I was using AltaVista (yes, I am that old) to find solutions to my problems and poking the code until it did what I wanted, often in spite of whatever tools, frameworks, or design patterns we were using. Maybe, but we’re definitely not there yet. I’ve just always done it that way.

Development 107

Development Code Google Engineering 107

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

So, given a table_id, how do you get the table schema/definition? After the “data dictionary” (DD) engine and DD cache are initialized on a server, the Storage Engines can ask for a table definition. Old design (until Percona XtraBackup 8.0.33-27): New design (from Percona XtraBackup 8.0.33-28) ibd > t1.sdi

Cache 89

Cache Servers Benchmarking Design 89

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 193

Programming Best Practices Innovation Analytics 193

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

According to Thair, some ideas about accountability in the software development process promote removing boundaries to enable collaboration, not ownership. “If As a result, developers can address operational concerns earlier in the software delivery process and streamline efforts. That’s not good design for Ops,” he said.

DevOps 171

DevOps Engineering Innovation Best Practices 171

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

However, organizations must structure and store data inputs in a specific format to enable extract, transform, and load processes, and efficiently query this data. This data lands in its original, raw form without requiring schema definition. Massively parallel processing. Data warehouses.

Artificial Intelligence 222

Artificial Intelligence Storage Analytics Government 222

Percona

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Most times, these are Greenfield projects where the bulk of the effort is on its design and architecture. About pgLoader Enter pgloader , a command line interface (CLI) designed to facilitate the conversion and migration from one DBMS into PostgreSQL. Even differences as simple as data types can present a challenge. MySQL version 5.7

Database 126

Database Open Source Architecture Design 126

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience.

Traffic 282

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 282

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

However, because organizations typically use multiple mobile monitoring tools, this process is often far more difficult than it should be. 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.

Mobile 171

Mobile Monitoring Analytics Google 171

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.

Cloud 235

Cloud Traffic Monitoring Open Source 235

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. By using this high-level description we were able to greatly simplify the pipeline creation process for users by filling in common yet required configuration for the Data Mesh pipeline.

Engineering 268

Engineering Architecture Java Infrastructure 268

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

There are several benefits of such optimizations like saving on storage, faster query time, cheaper downstream processing, and an increase in developer productivity by removing additional ETLs written only for query performance improvement. Then deep dive into the merging use case of AutoOptimize and share some results and benefits.

Storage 209

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 209

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

These small wins, such as implementing a blameless root cause analysis process, can take many forms and don’t necessarily involve numerical metrics. This is made possible through generative AI’s natural language processing capabilities. SRE is about designing, building, and operating reliable services at scale,” said Townshend.

Best Practices 205

Best Practices Engineering DevOps Software Engineering 205

Percona

JULY 19, 2023

In the world of modern DevOps, deployment automation tools have become essential for streamlining processes and ensuring consistent, reliable deployments. GitOps and ArgoCD are at the cutting edge of deployment automation, making it easy to deploy complex applications and reducing the risk of human error in the deployment process.

Servers 83

Servers Best Practices DevOps Open Source 83