The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

How can we achieve a similar functionality when designing our gRPC APIs? Add FieldMask to the Request Message Instead of creating one-off “include” fields, API designers can add field_mask field to the request message: [link] Consumers can set paths for the fields they expect to receive in the response.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

This is a guest post by Benjamin Manes , who did engineery things for Google and is now doing engineery things as CTO of Vector. The previous article described the caching algorithms used by Caffeine , in particular the eviction and concurrency models.

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DZone

MAY 26, 2021

Well, in Google’s view, a poorly-optimized page should not rank highly. Instead, search results should favor pages with fundamental design strengths—including JavaScript minification, rapid execution time, and render-friendly scripting.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Five years ago when Google published The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines it was a manifesto declaring the world of computing had changed forever. Since then the world has chosen to ride along with Google. Hop aboard or be left behind at the station. What's different?

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DZone

OCTOBER 11, 2022

These items are the fruits of those ideas, the items I deemed worthy from my Google Reader feeds. Making Google’s CalDAV and CardDAV APIs available for everyone ( Google Developers Blog). Simpler UI Testing with CasperJS ( Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices). Hacker News).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. It’s fair to say Google Fonts are popular. Without Google Fonts you would be limited to the handful of “ system fonts ” installed on your user’s device. Like all good things, Google Fonts do come with a cost. Danny Cooper. Large preview ).

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 2, 2025

These UA campaigns typically feature static creatives, launch trailers, and game review videos on platforms like Google, Meta, and TikTok. To better guide the design and budgeting of future campaigns, we are developing an Incremental Return on Investment model.

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ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

When I worked at Google, fleet-wide profiling revealed that 25-35% of all CPU time was spent just moving bytes around: memcpy, strcmp, copying between user and kernel buffers in network and disk I/O, hidden copy-on-write in soft page faults, checksumming, compressing, decrypting, assembling/disassembling packets and HTML pages, etc.

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O'Reilly

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Perhaps Googles marketing never thought to call this training reasoning.) Thats the bet that OpenAI, Alibaba, and possibly Google are makingand they seem to be winning. Generative AI has proven useful for generating code but hasnt (yet) made significant inroads into software design. Can we go further?

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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. seconds too long.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 19, 2023

By Chris Wolfe , Joey Schorr , and Victor Roldán Betancort Introduction The authorization team at Netflix recently sponsored work to add Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) support to AuthZed’s open source Google Zanzibar inspired authorization system, SpiceDB. What was problematic about this design?

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DZone

JULY 13, 2021

Splunk, when it was first released, was known as Google Search for logs, and it was followed by others such as Elasticsearch and Sumo Logic. Then came log managers, providing log aggregation and making logs easier to search.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

At this year’s Perform, we are thrilled to have our three strategic cloud partners, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), returning as both sponsors and presenters to share their expertise about cloud modernization and observability of generative AI models.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. As I previously mentioned, my primary data source for this analysis is Google CrUX. Starting in June 2021, these metrics have become a ranking factor for Google search.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Designing Better Links For Websites And Emails: A Guideline. Designing Better Links For Websites And Emails: A Guideline. When you share a bunch of files (let’s say in different formats or versions), it’s not enough to design each link correctly. Slava Shestopalov. 2021-12-06T17:30:00+00:00. 2021-12-06T19:34:18+00:00.

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Website Design Internet Internet 143

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 9, 2020

For this example, we’ll use a simple application called “Online Boutique,” which is based on the Google microservices demo application. Online Boutique has been launched into a Kubernetes cluster that runs in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Understand the architecture of your applications in Kubernetes in real-time.

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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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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

As Google’s Ben Treynor explains , “Fundamentally, it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operations function.” Designating and managing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) as availability targets for a service. SRE vs DevOps? Share values that extend across single teams.

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Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

In fact, giants like Google and Microsoft once employed monolithic architectures almost exclusively. As the demand for services grows and containerized applications deploy across multicloud environments, organizations need a more flexible, cohesive approach for designing and developing a distributed systems architecture.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt). Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt). To many designers and developers the process of designing for mobile assumes that touch is natural, so we don’t need to pay any particular attention to the design of touch systems.

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InfoQ

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Google recently announced various improvements to Cloud Spanner, its distributed, decoupled relational database service with a “50% increase in throughput and 2.5 times the storage per node than before” without a price change. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

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CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative was launched in May of 2020 and, since then, its role in Search has morphed and evolved as roll-outs have been made and feedback has been received. However, to this day, messaging from Google can seem somewhat unclear and, in places, even contradictory. Don’t have time to read 5,500+ words?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 13, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. I hate to admit it, but five or six years ago my interest in web design started to wane. Web design had stagnated, predictability had replaced creativity, and ideas seemed less important than data. Design had lost its joyfulness.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Monitor your cloud OpenPipeline ™ is the Dynatrace platform data-handling solution designed to seamlessly ingest and process data from any source, regardless of scale or format. Furthermore, OpenPipeline is designed to collect and process data securely and in compliance with industry standards.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

Most organizations have a grab bag of monitoring tools, each designed for a specific use case. App developers and digital teams typically rely on separate analytics tools, such as Adobe and Google Analytics, that may aggregate user behavior and try to understand anomalies in traffic. Dynatrace supports GDPR compliance by design.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2019

Flow Designer for more consistency in the delivery cycle. At this year’s Google Cloud Next conference, xMatters introduced Flow Designer , a visual designer that enables users to resolve issues without writing a single line of code. Flow Designer then connects the tools for you. How is this done?

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It’s architecture was specially designed to manage large-scale data warehouses and business intelligence workloads by giving you the ability to spread your data out across a multitude of servers. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. Greenplum Architectural Design.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers such as Google, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft also followed suit with frameworks such as Google Cloud Functions , AWS Lambda , and Microsoft Azure Functions. Consider a monolithic application, for example, designed to perform a host of functions. How does function as a service work?

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DZone

AUGUST 28, 2019

A customer who is visiting your website from Google Chrome may have a different user experience than a customer who is visiting your website from Safari, Mozilla Firefox, or any other browser. Meaning, Google Chrome 72 may render a website differently than Google Chrome 65. But wait, there is more!

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DZone

JANUARY 25, 2022

A basic example could be listening to an AWS SQS queue and saving a file in Google Cloud Storage Bucket for each message that has been received. A book that defines a series of patterns and blueprints to help us to better design large component-based applications.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Google has announced plans for a new badging system that would let users know whether a website typically loads slowly. With its search engine being easily the most used on the internet, Google has an incredible influence on the web. Most stemmed from Google exercising too much power with this move.

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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. According to other comparisons [Google for 'Performance of Programming Languages'] spread over the net, they clearly outshine others in all speed benchmarks.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. UX design teams are passionate about our approach to solving problems and providing users with experiences that lead to their desired outcomes. UX teams should consider it a mandatory step in designing a product.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography. Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Andrew Clarke.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. And how can you verify this performance consistently across a multicloud environment that also uses Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform frameworks?

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 23, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseperable. Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseperable. I replaced them with books on art direction, editorial, and graphic design. Previously On “Inspired Design Decisions”.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

You have to be aware that at any of your digital touchpoints, the digital experience is measured against the best-in-class available coming from Google, Facebook and other digital leaders. Digital touchpoint outage: There is nothing worse than your well-designed digital touchpoint to simply not load, to be unavailable.

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