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How multicloud observability boosts cloud performance at Tractor Supply Co.

Dynatrace

Kiran Bollampally, site reliability and digital analytics lead for ecommerce at Tractor Supply Co., shifted most of its ecommerce and enterprise analytics workloads to Kubernetes-managed software containers running in Microsoft Azure. Rural lifestyle retail giant Tractor Supply Co. ” Three years ago, Tractor Supply Co.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

Going back to the mid-1990s, online systems have seen relentless, explosive growth in usage, driven by ecommerce, mobile applications, and more recently, IoT. For ecommerce applications, this evolution has created new capabilities that dramatically improve the experience for online shoppers.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

Going back to the mid-1990s, online systems have seen relentless, explosive growth in usage, driven by ecommerce, mobile applications, and more recently, IoT. For ecommerce applications, this evolution has created new capabilities that dramatically improve the experience for online shoppers.

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How retailers can deliver goods securely in the current state of vulnerability management

Dynatrace

Like other industries, the retail sector is turning to dynamic multicloud environments, cloud-native architectures, and open source code to improve digital agility, according to the report. There’s more pressure than ever for DevOps teams to deliver faster innovation for retailers and their customers.

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How unified data and analytics offers a new approach to software intelligence

Dynatrace

As a result, organizations need software to work perfectly to create customer experiences, deliver innovation, and generate operational efficiency. For example, users generate user data, ecommerce sites generate business data, and service portals generate service desk tickets and call volume data. But it doesn’t stop there.

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DynamoDB One Year Later - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Shazam needed to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the Super Bowl and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture. This rapid adoption has allowed us to benefit from the scale economies inherent in our architecture. We used relational databases when designing the Amazon.com ecommerce platform many years ago.

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