Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

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.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 130

Internet Internet AWS Performance 130

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

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.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Big companies] create all these systems and processes - and then end up with a very small percentage of people who are supposed to solve complex problems, while the other 98% of people just execute." Wall Street Journal, 24 December 2007. The modern industrial service economy has a few knowledge workers, and lots and lots of drones.

Education 45

Education Best Practices Retail Network 45

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS). 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.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2021

Second, the supply chain bedlam triggered by the Ever Given’s beaching exposed the asymmetric downside risk endemic to the systemic fragility - that is, the woefully inadequate robustness - in tightly-coupled supply chains. The systemic fragility was as plain as day. This was a fragile system operating on borrowed time.

Transportation 52

Transportation Retail Traffic Efficiency 52

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 28, 2007

A recent quote from Shari Ballard, EVP of Retail Channel with Best Buy, highlights this: 'Look at why big companies die. They create all these systems and processes – and then end up with a very small percentage of people who are supposed to solve complex problems, while the other 98% of people just execute. They implode on themselves.

Government 40

Government Retail Best Practices Technology 40