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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. Complete Web Monitoring. Speed Up Your Site. Still good. There's a time bomb on the web: user patience.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Although there are many books on data mining in general and its applications to marketing and customer relationship management in particular [BE11, AS14, PR13 etc.], The rest of the article is organized as follows: We first introduce a simple framework that ties together a retailer’s actions, profits and data. Brunamonti, 2013.

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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

What if we use ClickHouse (which is a columnar analytical database) as our main datastore? Well, typically, an analytical database is not a replacement for a transactional or key/value datastore. This information can be a mix of analytical (OLAP) queries (i.e. Analytical databases are optimized for a low number of slow queries.