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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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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). Now, I am advising people to strongly consider AMD for SQL Server workloads as the AMD EPYC "Rome" processors are released in Q3 of 2019.

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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

Think about policy renewal operations at insurance companies, or specialized software developers working in silos: they are information workers, but they are on an information assembly line, doing piecework and passing it onto the next person. "[Big Wall Street Journal, 24 December 2007.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Patrick is a London-based software developer who specializes in web performance and who describes himself as enjoying “working the entire stack, back-end to front-end, CDN to server.” Rick Byers.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 8th, 2019

High Scalability

Newzoo : The games market took more than 35 years to grow to a $35 billion business in 2007. Mark Fontecchio : we find that more companies are turning to HR software and the data it contains for strategic insights. Retail investors have to put their money somewhere. This year, that same market is expected to generate $137.9

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IT Governance Maximises IT Returns

The Agile Manager

The notion that a Brand X watch recently sold for tens of thousands of dollars at auction increases the brand’s retail marketability by suggesting it has investment-grade or heirloom properties. All anybody cares about is that we produce "results" - for us, this means getting software into production no matter what. 3 Meichtry, Stacy.

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The Ever Given is Not a Black Swan Event

The Agile Manager

I kept a copy of the October WSJ article intending to use it as a metaphor for large software development processes designed to optimize labor unit costs, specifically developer labor unit costs. In the mid-2000s, with global trade growing by leaps and bounds every year, shipping companies opted for larger and larger vessels.