Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

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.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 26, 2007

The cost efficiencies achieved through global sourcing face a triple threat to their fundamentals: The USD has eroded in value relative to other currencies in the past 6 years 1 – this means the USD doesn’t buy as much global sourcing capacity as it did 6 years ago, particularly vis-à-vis its peer consumer currencies.

Airlines 40

Airlines Government Metrics Strategy 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Bradbury Thompson: The Art Of Graphic Design. Inspired Design Decisions With Bradbury Thompson: The Art Of Graphic Design. I’m unlikely ever to make type as beautiful as Herb Lubalin, or as challenging as Neville Brody, but I am more confident to experiment. Andrew Clarke. Large preview ).

Design 119

Design Media Entertainment Website 119

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

These posts often recount someone trying ChatGPT or Copilot for the first time with a few simple prompts, seeing how it does for some small self-contained coding tasks, and then making sweeping claims like “WOW this exceeded all my highest hopes and wildest dreams, it’s going to replace all programmers in five years!”

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Particular Software

MAY 8, 2023

We’ve exchanged it for a haystack of call stacks , which makes finding the needle (the root cause of the failure) even more difficult. ? For example, in a highly observable system, we can easily infer the internal state and behavior of the system without going back into the code to make changes when something unexpected occurs.

Systems 52

Systems C++ Azure Metrics 52

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Figure 1 (above). From pre-built libraries for linear or logistic regressions, decision trees, naïve Bayes, k-means, gradient-boosting, etc., relational database,” “Oracle database solutions,” “Hive,” “database administration,” “data models,” “Spark”—declined in usage, year-over-year, in 2019. to be wary of.

Software Architecture 134

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 134

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Bea Feitler, An Unstoppable Creative Force. Inspired Design Decisions: Bea Feitler, An Unstoppable Creative Force. Previously On “Inspired Design Decisions”. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. Inspired Design Decisions: Ernest Journal.

Design 76

Design Media Website Speed 76

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e. squads, chapters, tribes, and guilds) or simply follow Amazon's two-pizza team model. In this model, software architecture and code ownership is a reflection of the organisational model.

Engineering 61

Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Establish a performance culture. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Establish a performance culture. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. There are a couple of different models, and the ones discussed below are quite opinionated — just make sure to set your own priorities early on.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103