The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 22, 2021

By Phill Williams and Vijay Gondi Introduction At Netflix, we are passionate about delivering great audio to our members. We began streaming 5.1 channel surround sound in 2010, Dolby Atmos in 2017 , and adaptive bitrate audio in 2019. Continuing in this tradition, we are proud to announce that Netflix now streams Extended HE-AAC with MPEG-D DRC ( xHE-AAC ) to compatible Android Mobile devices (Android 9 and newer).

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2021

Dynatrace news. With our enhanced AWS Lambda extension , we bring the power of Dynatrace PurePath 4 automatic tracing technology to serverless function observability. This gives you seamless end-to-end distributed tracing for AWS Lambda functions without touching any code through auto-instrumentation, thereby helping you to better understand potential issues that may impact your end users’ experience.

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DZone

JANUARY 18, 2021

The modern commercial enterprise’s demands make it obligatory for every single organization to have an optimized and high-performing web application and website. The application or website quality plays a significant role in how users perceive the organization, and, in turn, how much faith they have its products. In this circumstance, rigorous testing of the application and the website becomes crucial.

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TechBeacon Testing

JANUARY 21, 2021

Our attention span has decreased over time. Online, if a page loads slowly, people are quick to go to a competitor’s site. They have no patience for slow websites. Businesses that fail to realize this can lose a lot of money after racking up negative reviews from customers.

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Simform

JANUARY 22, 2021

Xamarin and Ionic are two popular frameworks for building hybrid applications. Both the frameworks have been a point of debate for developers, for the past few years. The difference ranges from Application size, UX/UI experience, Code reusability, third-party SDK, etc. Let's talk about them in detail. The post Xamarin vs Ionic: Ending the application frameworks debate appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2021

Dynatrace news. We’ve all had to Transform Faster this past year. Not just with our technology, or in business, but in all areas of our lives. And we know as well as anyone: the need for fast transformations drives amazing flexibility and innovation, which is why we took Perform Hands-on Training (HOT) virtual for 2021. Here’s what’s new this year, and how you can get a front-row seat in our virtual classroom.

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DZone

JANUARY 22, 2021

Selenium has always been the first choice for automation developers to automate their web applications. Locating dynamic web elements has historically been dolorous for automation testers, which brings the scope of XPath into the picture. XPath is one of the most preferable locators provided by Selenium. Locators are Selenium commands used to locate a GUI web element present in the web page Document Object Model (DOM) structure.

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Tasktop

JANUARY 19, 2021

The latest product release from the Tasktop Value Stream Management platform —Tasktop Hub 21.1—is out today, making end-to-end enterprise toolchain integration even easier and impactful. New exciting features include: The ability to take action on specific artifacts pairs. Expanding support for multiple Atlassian Jira plugins. Enhancements to our LeanKit, VersionOne and Tosca support.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 21, 2021

It goes without saying that the usage of smartphones has been soaring all around the globe. In fact, a report by Statista suggests that the overall count of mobile phones all over the world is expected to be a whopping 3.8 billion by 2021 which is around half of the world’s population. Also, around 80% of the total time spent on mobile phones is dedicated to mobile apps.

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DZone

JANUARY 16, 2021

Wooden panels and beltless bench seating have gone the way of the dinosaurs, and vehicles have become increasingly sophisticated with every passing year. A major part of that? Embedded systems and automotive software. So, why have functional safety requirements become more standardized while automotive software standards remain touch and go? ISO 26262, the functional safety standard for vehicles broadly adopted worldwide, incorporates extensive safety analysis methods that account for random err

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Kovair

JANUARY 18, 2021

Despite what most of us might assume, software testing is not simply a matter of conducting a string of tests and evaluations, and getting the.

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Simform

JANUARY 19, 2021

Take one more step towards securing your serverless application. Here's an in-depth analysis of serverless security where we are discussing what exactly serverless security means, what are the risks involved and how you can mitigate it using the best practices. The post Serverless Security- What are the Security Risks & Best Practices? appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 22, 2021

In 2019, the worldwide sales of mobile devices were 1524 million units. In 2020, in the first nine months, we were already hitting 1590 million units and this trend has been growing every year. The number was just 296 million units ten years back in 2010 ( [link] ). This trend shows us how mobile devices have become a part and parcel of our lives. We have grown accustomed and hooked to these devices which makes their application development a rather intense process.

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Mobile Testing Energy Operating System 74

DZone

JANUARY 16, 2021

CPU consumption in Unix/Linux operating systems is broken down into 8 different metrics: User CPU time , System CPU time , nice CPU time , Idle CPU time , Waiting CPU time , Hardware Interrupt CPU time , Software Interrupt CPU time , and Stolen CPU time. In this article, let us study ‘waiting CPU time’. What Is ‘Waiting’ CPU Time? Waiting CPU time indicates the amount of time the CPU spends waiting for disk I/O or network I/O operations to complete.

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SQL Shack

JANUARY 21, 2021

In this 40th article on SQL Server Always On Availability Group series, we will discuss logins synchronization between replicas. Introduction SQL Server Always On Availability Groups provides high availability and disaster recovery solution for SQL databases. In case of any issues with the primary replica, it automatically failovers the AG databases on the secondary replica. […].

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Particular Software

JANUARY 18, 2021

If you’re a long-time video game player like me, your muscle-memory vividly remembers the F5 key’s location on your keyboard. For everyone else: F5 is a common key-binding for “quicksave” in computer-games. And like many others, I learned how to use it the hard way. After spending hours sneaking through dungeons, battling orcs, and looting valuable treasures, some nasty troll made an unexpectedly quick end to my character.

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The Polyglot Developer

JANUARY 22, 2021

When it comes to game development, you’re almost always going to need to store information about your player. This information could be around how many health points you currently have in the game or it can extend beyond the game-play experience and into details such as the billing information for the person playing the game. When we talk about this type of data, we’re talking about a user profile store.

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Games Development 59

DZone

JANUARY 22, 2021

In our earlier blog under the xUnit testing tutorial series, we had a look at setting up the xUnit.net framework (further referred to as xUnit) in Visual Studio 2019 (VS 2019). Today our core focus is on Selenium test automation with C#. So, we would also need to install the Selenium WebDriver. Irrespective of the test framework being used, Selenium tests can be executed on a local Selenium Grid as well as remote or cloud-based Selenium Grid.

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Testing C++ Cloud 107

Simform

JANUARY 21, 2021

“2021 expected to be the Year of Multi-Cloud.”. - International Data Corporation (IDC). “By 2022, about 75% of enterprise customers using cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) will adopt a deliberate multi-cloud strategy, up from 49% in 2017.”. - Gartner Research. Multi-cloud is changing the course of the world of technology as we know it! The post Multi-Cloud Management Tools, Challenges and Best Practices appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 18, 2021

Web Developers frequently come across issues where the developed website or web application does not work as expected on certain combinations of browsers and operating systems. Does this mean that enough effort was not spent in the automation testing process? The possibility is that the web developer and test automation engineer did not do thorough cross browser testing!

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 19, 2021

sys.partitions appears to be a UNION ALL of two result sets (row store and columnstore) and most of my queries are resulting in two scans of sysrowsets. Is there any filter I can put on a query of sys.partitions if I know the row I’m looking for is rowstore? This question was posted to #sqlhelp by Jake Manske , and it was brought to my attention by Erik Darling.

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Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 21, 2021

This special Guru of the Week series focuses on contracts. We covered basic assertions in GotW #97 … but not all asserted conditions are created equal. JG Questions Given some assertion syntax: SomeAssert( condition ); // expresses that ‘condition’ must be true 1. Give one example each of an asserted condition whose run-time evaluation is: a) super cheap b) arbitrarily expensive Guru Questions 2.

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Simform

JANUARY 19, 2021

The latest mantra in the IT industry is “Code Once, Use Everywhere.” Businesses nowadays prefer hybrid mobile applications more than their native counterparts, because it dramatically cuts down the development time and costs. The post Flutter vs Ionic: Which one should you choose for your next project? appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 18, 2021

With the rise in the usage of internet and smartphones, the number of browsers too have increased over the last two decades. Currently, there are multiple browsers across the world and different users use different browsers. Also, every browser has different versions which are in use and you can’t simply assume that your website will look perfect on every browser.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-01-21T14:00:00+00:00. 2021-01-21T16:39:57+00:00. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. A day when a project, fully polished and carefully optimized, gets launched, ranking high and soaring above performance scores in Lighthouse and WebPageTest.

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Simform

JANUARY 18, 2021

Here's the best part about technologies, you get to explore a host of options, each offering a different set of features and benefits. However, it could be tiring for many PMs and CTOs to put a finger on which framework best suits their business needs. . The post Ionic vs Nativescript: 13 Differences Between the two Frameworks appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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