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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 29 June 2011 09:55 AM. For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Comments ().

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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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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. He is a co-organizer of the London Web Performance meetup. Philip Tellis. Philip Tellis.