All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The expectation was that with each order or two of magnitude, we would need to revisit and revise the architecture to make sure we could address the issues of scale. We needed to build such an architecture that we could introduce new software components without taking the service down. The importance of the network.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Choosing your database architecture may be the most critical decision you’ll make and has a disproportionate impact on the performance, scalability, and availability of your app. No single database architecture or solution can meet all of Amazon.com’s or our customers’ needs.

Cache 129

Cache Cloud Performance Retail 129

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

cameras) in many usages ranging from digital security/surveillance and automated retail (e.g. To foster research in these categories, we provide an overview of each of these categories to understand the implications on workload analysis and HW/SW architecture research. interactive AR/VR, gaming and critical decision making).

Wireless 54

Wireless IoT Analytics Architecture 54

Apica

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Indeed, there was a time when applications were vertical stacks of software atop networks and servers wholly owned by the company. Distracted by distributed, dynamic architectures. There’s nothing wrong with wanting the reassurance of good old-fashioned human-based user acceptance testing (UAT).

Retail 52

Retail Website Infrastructure Software Architecture 52

Particular Software

JANUARY 18, 2021

What if the end boss is a network error, power outage, concurrency conflict, or even squirrels ? Real-life end bosses Let’s get a bit more concrete with some simple pseudo-code for a retail order processing system: // Some API invoked by the customer (e.g.

Games 64

Games Retail Network Code 64

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

network engineer, at >2%) and management positions (IT manager, at close to 3%; operations manager at >1%). Interestingly, multi-cloud, or the use of multiple cloud computing and storage services in a single homogeneous network architecture, had the fewest users (24% of the respondents). Role of survey respondents.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Alibaba is one of the e-commerce giants that have “run the gamut” from a regular online retail store to a native application (created for mobile shopping purposes) and then on to a PWA. These multiple “heads” are attached to the backend and database.

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In addition, its robust architecture supports ten times as many scientists, all working simultaneously. According to Chris Zadeh, the CEO of Ohpen, large Dutch banks are already moving their entire retail banking platforms to the cloud using Ohpen core banking technology running on top of AWS.

Cloud 129

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

Edge Perspectives

JANUARY 21, 2019

Let me start by clarifying that the transformation I’m focused on isn’t the transformation involved in moving from one business to another (let’s say, moving from being a retailer to becoming a clothing manufacturer). Organization: Shift from departments and hierarchies to workgroups and networks.

Innovation 104

Innovation Scalability Efficiency Mobile 104

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. In this article, I describe major architectural decisions we made and techniques we used. In such cases, content delivery network (CDN) is typically used to cache majority of the content and shield the system from high workload.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100