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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. ” – Andy King, 2003. Designing for Performance. High Performance Responsive Design.

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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

How companies can use ideas from mass production to create business with data. That was the provocative thesis of a much-talked-about article from 2003 in the Harvard Business Review by the US publicist Nicolas Carr. Marketers use big data and artificial intelligence to find out more about the future needs of their customers.

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Fast key-value stores: an idea whose time has come and gone

The Morning Paper

Why are developers using RInK systems as part of their design? Generally to cache data (including non-persistent data that never sees a backing store), to share non-persistent data across application services (e.g. A high CPU cost due to marshalling data to/from the RInK store formats to the application data format.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

This article describes six major optimization problems related to marketing and pricing that can be solved leveraging data mining techniques. Although these problems are very different, we are trying to establish a common framework that helps to design optimization and data mining tasks required for solutions.

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