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Where microservice development benefits from automation

O'Reilly Software

I suggested the radical modular breakdown of applications in a 2002 article , saying that: "the application , once the central fixture of computer use, would dissolve into a soup of servers, application fragments, and user interfaces." You also have to decide how fine-grained and nested your RESTful API should be.

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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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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

Microcomputers improved the efficiency of data collection and made it easy to consolidate operational data. In 2002, the 2 year paid 3.5% The increasing disruption caused by technology in everything from retail to education to NGOs will defy command and control management. Ironically, it had the opposite effect.