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What does it let us do that we couldn't do before?

The Agile Manager

In the past year, activist investors have pushed for retailers like Macy’s and Kohl’s to separate their eCommerce operations into separate listed entities. There are counter-arguments to making this separation, and not just that a growing eCommerce division covers up for a struggling traditional retail operation. brand) value.

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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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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

Today (September 2013), they're paying predictable business operations. The increasing disruption caused by technology in everything from retail to education to NGOs will defy command and control management. In the last 12 years, debt has been cheap - cheaper than equity. In 1990, 2 year and 10 year Treasurys were paying 8%.

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes.

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes.

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radEventListener: a Tale of Client-side Framework Performance

CSS - Tricks

A ASUS X550CC laptop from 2013 running Windows 10 on Chrome 83. It is very fast for its relatively low $400 USD retail price. Admittedly, these were the results I was most excited to see: how does an ASUS laptop from 2013 with Windows 10 and an Ivy Bridge i5 of the day handle this stuff? Startup time. Startup time.

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

All Things Distributed

You saw the first iteration in April 2013 with the launch of Local Secondary Indexes (LSI). 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.

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