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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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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

Speed Curve

And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. The median page today serves 25 images, compared to 42 images back in 2012. In other words, images comprised almost 75% of the total page weight. More on that later.). This trend carries over to mobile.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

In 2012 Tom Tom launched a new Location Based Services (LBS) platform to give app developers easy access to its mapping content to be able to incorporate rich location based data into their applications. Tom Tom – Founded in 1991, TomTom is a leading provider of navigation and location-based products and services.

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Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 08 November 2012 03:00 PM. Today, SQS is a key part of this architecture and is used in mission critical backend systems for a myriad of use-cases in the Kindle platform, Amazon Retail Ordering workflow, Amazon Fulfillment technologies, etc. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

This situation was so bad that Microsoft offered a 25% discount on the cost of SQL Server processor core licenses for SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014, if you ran on qualifying AMD Opteron processors with six or more cores.

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Batch Mode Bitmaps in SQL Server

SQL Performance

There have been major improvements since the first appearance of the batch mode execution engine in SQL Server 2012. There are sadly no retail-build trace flags that report informational messages about batch mode bitmaps or pushed-down filter compilation. Features specific to earlier versions will mentioned inline as we go along.

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Taking DynamoDB beyond Key-Value: Now with Faster, More Flexible, More Powerful Query Capabilities

All Things Distributed

So when we launched in January 2012, we provided simple query functionality that used hash primary keys or composite primary keys (hash + range). Since then, we have been working on adding flexible querying. You saw the first iteration in April 2013 with the launch of Local Secondary Indexes (LSI).

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