The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We then used simple thought exercises based on flipping coins to build intuition around false positives and related concepts such as statistical significance, p-values, and confidence intervals. In this post, we’ll do the same for false negatives and the related concept of statistical power.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

JavaScript Design Patterns. Knights of the Flexbox Table is another well-designed interactive course to help you learn the different aspects of the flexbox specification. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. CSS Selectors Cheatsheet is an interactive exercise to test your understanding of CSS selectors. TypeScript Exercises.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Designing experiments so that the rate of false positives is minuscule necessarily increases the false negative rate, and vice versa. False positives and statistical significance With a great hypothesis and a clear understanding of the primary decision metric, it’s time to turn to the statistical aspects of designing an A/B test.

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Dynatrace

JULY 5, 2022

Like the development and design phases, these applications generate massive data volumes that offer relevant and actionable insights. With better data intelligence across the software development lifecycle, individuals in every role can exercise more autonomy and experience greater job satisfaction. The ability to preempt outages.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

For many roles, you will be given a choice between a take-home coding exercise or a one-hour discussion with one of the engineers from the team. The engineers assess your technical skills by asking you to solve various design and coding problems. The problems you are asked to solve are related to the work of the team.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Functional Testing Functional testing was the most straightforward of them all: a set of tests alongside each path exercised it against the old and new endpoints. Latencies The old api service was running on the same “machine” that also cached a lot of video metadata (by design). This meant that data that was static (e.g.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 21, 2020

Recently I ran a fully remote, 2 full-day, Strategic Domain-Driven Design workshop using Miro. Visualising Progress The theme of our workshop was to teach Strategic Domain-Driven Design using the Bounded Context Canvas as a visual model to aid learning. Digital tools like Miro allows us to design workshops as interactive journeys.

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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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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. Mediocre vs Great Dashboard Design.

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Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

When designing network segmentation programs that can help restrict lateral movement of bad actors across your infrastructure, understanding the design and flows of critical applications, whether on premise, in the cloud or containers is essential.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2022

To support its objectives, the company operates a digital platform that enables customers to earn points when they exercise or eat healthily. As healthcare providers consider AIOps solutions, they should evaluate whether traditional AIOps approaches designed for correlation can enable long-term success.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Hosted and moderated by Amazon, AWS GameDay is a hands-on, collaborative, gamified learning exercise for applying AWS services and cloud skills to real-world scenarios. As an AWS Advanced Technology Partner , this was a great opportunity for Dynatrace developers to sharpen their AWS skills and pursue or up-level their Amazon certifications.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

Security is by design, not tacked on. The result is security by design. Rather than simply joining three disparate disciplines under common management, DevSecOps expects every individual to exercise security best practices relevant to their role and to remain in a security-focused mindset. Integrated security enables automation.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

We have heard, “let’s do some chaos engineering…” before exercising basic practices like load testing and proper system monitoring, both of which are required components of chaos engineering. Then, using a design thinking process , ideate on the future and establish the business vision.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The infrastructure should allow them to exercise their freedom as data scientists but it should provide enough guardrails and scaffolding, so they don’t have to worry about software architecture too much. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both The steps can be arbitrary Python code. Metaflow is a cloud-native framework.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

However, it’s essential to exercise caution: Limit the quantity of SLOs while ensuring they are well-defined and aligned with business and functional objectives. That said, the guiding thread, predominantly under the client’s control, remains the backend perspective. In other words, where the application code resides.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding tenets organizations can use to evaluate architecture and implement designs that will scale over time. Design efficient use of your computing resources as demand changes and technologies evolves. Design applications to recover from errors gracefully. Reliability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This, in turn, allows processes to exercise certain privileges without having any privileges in the init user namespace. Most of these encoding tools are designed to interact with the POSIX filesystem API. Kernel subsystems can then proceed to call ns_capable with the specific user namespace that is tied to the resource.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Welcome back to the blog series in which we show how you can easily solve three common problem scenarios by using Dynatrace and xMatters Flow Designer. We will use xMatters’ Flow Designer to create toolchains that automate remediation, and Dynatrace’ keptn to automate continuous operations. Flow Designer rolls back through keptn.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2021

You can always ask a question live , you can share your screen and get immediate feedback, and you can work on group exercises with people around the world. Live discussions and interactive exercises are at the very heart of every workshop, with group work, homework, reviews and live interaction with people around the world.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 6, 2015

Grapevine was one of the first systems designed to be fully distributed. The origins of the system are described in Grapevine: An Exercise in Distributed Computing by researchers who all went on to become grandmasters in distributed computing: Andrew Birrell, Roy Levin, Roger Needham, and Mike Schroeder.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Ethics are an important part of human-computer interaction because they keep people at the heart of the design process. As UX practitioners, we know empathy is an important part of the design process. Interaction Design Foundation. How To Build An Ethical User Research Practice At Any Organization. Devin Harold.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Where aws ends and the internet begins is an exercise left to the reader. To support this growth, we’ve revisited Pushy’s past assumptions and design decisions with an eye towards both Pushy’s future role and future stability. This initial functionality was built out for FireTVs and was expanded from there.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

However, if nobody reads the documentation and it gets out of date quickly, it’s a tick-box exercise rather than a value creating one. designing systems that document themselves. It helps people to understand the complex systems they are working with. I believe that Enterprise Architects should focus on creating living documentation?—?designing

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

and exercise best CSS practices. To solve the second problem, I take an approach that can be summarized in four pieces: Design tokens. Design Tokens. CSS setup will be storing all site-wide values as design tokens. I like to think of design tokens as the glue that maintains consistency across the project.

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Edge Perspectives

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

If we don’t exercise our muscles, they tend to atrophy, but we still have them. Once we begin to exercise, the muscles grow again. People who have exercised innate capabilities and acquired developed capabilities will be much better positioned to acquire whatever skills they need to be successful. We all have muscles as humans.

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Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The thing is, that Marketing component probably talks to other components itself, which then would have to go through the same migration or duplication exercise (together with the components they talk to). The NServiceBus Messaging Bridge The NServiceBus Messaging Bridge was designed specifically for these scenarios.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

You might know it already, but perhaps not yet: we regularly run friendly online workshops around front-end and design. Live discussions and interactive exercises are at the very heart of every workshop, with group work, homework, reviews and live interaction with people around the world. Iris Lješnjanin. 2021-09-08T08:00:00+00:00.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

These trade-offs have even impacted the way the lowest level building blocks in our computer architectures have been designed. Configuring kernel execution is not a trivial exercise and requires GPU device specific knowledge. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Recent Entries.

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O'Reilly

AUGUST 13, 2024

To borrow Henry Ford’s alleged words, it would be great at designing faster horses, if asked. But I don’t think an AI could ever design an automobile without having seen one first—or without having a human say “ Put a steam engine on a tricycle.” AI would have trouble creating anything new because AI can’t want anything—new or old.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. Physical Exercise. So, whenever you feel anxious or moody, just get into some exercises before getting back to work and you will most likely love the results. Jump to table of contents ?.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The end result is the first major update to BetterTLS since its first release : a new suite of tests to exercise TLS implementations’ certificate path building. The reason that TLS protocol can support this is because agility has been designed into the system. specification and the final version. final specification released 2018).

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This lack of transparency is by design and provides Apple deniability while simultaneously setting low expectations, making them easier to exceed. as an (eventual) exercise of monopolistic power that held the web back for more than a decade? However, aside from the reading of tea leaves, there's no way to know if work is progressing.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 22, 2021

You can see that in the workday I’ve marked the dark blue as ‘getting tasks done’, which represented product design for my case. Exercise/outdoors. Design and development. In my records for the entire day, I put one color code for my work hours and will have a separate diagram specifically to break up my work hours. Networking.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s also awkward, an exercise of the blindfolded people describing the pachyderm. No surprise that strategic planning exercises tend to produce a lot of “what to do” options, which they present as a portfolio of strategic opportunities. Defining the opportunity through a thorough understanding what’s going on is hard. And that’s ok.

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