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Where microservice development benefits from automation

O'Reilly Software

A look at the stages of designing an API and service. In this article, I'll explore the tasks in designing a microservice and suggest the parts that can respond to automation. The design stage. For instance, the verbs on a retail site might include browsing, adding to a shopping cart, buying, and rating.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods. However, many of these models are highly parametric (i.e.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

All together, she has written 23 books as a solo or co-author since 2002. Author of the Pocket Guide to Web Performance and co-author of Using WebPageTest , Andy is an independent web performance consultant in the UK who has helped many leading retailers, newspapers and financial companies make their sites faster. Patrick Hamann.