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Performance audit: Lego.com

Speed Curve

We track LEGO.com, along with a handful of other leading ecommerce sites, in our public-facing Retail Benchmarks dashboard , which I encourage you to check out. A couple of things worth noting: All of the sites in the leaderboard sites are pretty speedy, so this is NOT a name-and-shame exercise. Are images optimized?

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Scaling Amazon ElastiCache for Redis with Online Cluster Resizing

All Things Distributed

Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching. Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple. Our retail customers have shared similar challenges about managing workload surges and declines driven by big sale events. Under the hood.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. In support of Amazon Prime Day 2017, the biggest day in Amazon retail history, DynamoDB served over 12.9 million requests per second.

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