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From bare-metal to Kubernetes

High Scalability

This is a guest post by Hugues Alary , Lead Engineer at Betabrand , a retail clothing company and crowdfunding platform, based in San Francisco. This article was originally published here. Hardware infrastructure. Scaling development processes. Early infrastructure. The scalability and maintainability issue. Kubernetes.

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. What Exactly is Greenplum? Query Optimization.

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The Rise of ESRI Application Developers: Leveraging GIS Technology for Enhanced Decision-Making

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Introduction In today’s data-driven world, Geographic Information System (GIS) technology plays a pivotal role in numerous industries, revolutionizing decision-making processes and providing valuable insights into spatial data.

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How companies can become magnets for digital talent

All Things Distributed

This article titled " Wie Unternehmen digitale Talente anziehen " appeared in German last week in the "Tipps für Arbeitgeber" section of Wirtschaftwoche. In the past, their sales departments defined specifications according to the customer's wishes, which were then transferred step by step into the manufacturing process.

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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. You can dive deeper into image optimization and SEO tips in this article in Google Search Central.). Don't assume hardware and networks will mitigate page bloat. More on that later.).

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What is page bloat? And how is it hurting your business, your search rank, and your users?

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. You can dive deeper into image optimization and SEO tips in this article in Google Search Central.) In other words, images comprised almost 75% of the total page weight. More on that later.)

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Hierarchical Navigation and Faceted Search on Top of Oracle Coherence

Highly Scalable

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. I can recommend this article by Peter Morville and Jeffrey Callender for further reading. Oracle Coherence was chosen as an implementation.

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