Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Pagespeed Benchmarks - US Retail - LCP When you examine a waterfall, it's pretty obvious that TTFB is the long pole in the tent, pushing out render times for the page.

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

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 is an MPP Database?

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

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.

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Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For example, someone might web scrape all the product pages of a competitor’s retail site to harvest information about products being offered and current pricing to try to gain a competitive edge. Typically, these would be pages that might no longer be available on the site but are available in third-party archives.

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Website Analytics Google Cache 89

O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. It is likely that entire companies will be in the business of identifying these nuances and selling them as “fingerprint databases” for identifying fake news articles.

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Social Media Media Internet Internet 138

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. But this “look” is now available in browsers. 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.

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

For example, AWS customers use SQS for asynchronous communication pipelines, buffer queues for databases, asynchronous work queues, and moving latency out of highly responsive requests paths. Customers tell us they poll SQS quickly because they want to retrieve messages as soon as they become available.

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Efficiency Cloud Games Scalability 104

Dynatrace

APRIL 27, 2022

The continued growth of e-commerce has led to digital transformation moving at unprecedented speeds, as retailers compete for the attention of over 2.1 Retailers are increasingly adopting multicloud strategies to gain the agility required to succeed. billion online shoppers. The rise of cloud complexity.

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Retail Cloud Speed Strategy 217

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. In supply chain management, connections between airports, warehouses, and retail aisles are critical for cost and time optimization. Enter graph databases.

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Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Updating graph databases with Cypher Green et al., Cypher for Apache Spark , and Cypher over Gremlin projects are also both available in open source. Cypher for Apache Spark , and Cypher over Gremlin projects are also both available in open source. VLDB’19. There is also a Graph Query Language (GQL) standards organisation.

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Database Logistics Healthcare Retail 70

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Today, we added two important choices for customers running high performance apps in the cloud: support for Redis in Amazon ElastiCache and a new high memory database instance (db.cr1.8xlarge) for Amazon RDS. No single database architecture or solution can meet all of Amazon.com’s or our customers’ needs.

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Cache Cloud Performance Retail 129

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

We launched DynamoDB last year to address the need for a cloud database that provides seamless scalability, irrespective of whether you are doing ten transactions or ten million transactions, while providing rock solid durability and availability. Traditionally, databases have been scaled as a whole –tables and indexes together.

Games 130

Games Scalability Database Retail 130

High Scalability

AUGUST 3, 2018

David Rosenthal : The margins on AWS, averaging 24.75% over the last twelve quarters, are what enables Amazon to run the US retail business averaging under 3% margin and the international business averaging -3.7% Alok Pathak : While both (Multi-AZ and Read replica) maintain a copy of database but they are different in nature.

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Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Amazon ElastiCache embodies much of what makes fast data a reality for customers looking to process high volume data at incredible rates, faster than traditional databases can manage. Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple. Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching.

Games 112

Games Retail Latency Education 112

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 25, 2020

Until a COVID-19 vaccine is widely available, getting back to work means keeping a close watch for outbreaks and quickly containing them when they occur. Using information from the company’s organizational database, it populates each twin with the employee’s ID, team ID, department type, and location.

Airlines 52

Airlines Mobile Analytics C++ 52

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 25, 2020

Until a COVID-19 vaccine is widely available, getting back to work means keeping a close watch for outbreaks and quickly containing them when they occur. Using information from the company’s organizational database, it populates each twin with the employee’s ID, team ID, department type, and location.

Airlines 52

Airlines Mobile Analytics C++ 52

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

However, one thing should be obvious: to fill a prescription, you need to access many different kinds of data, in many different databases. The data available to our retail business is much more limited. The online business is information-rich; the retail business is information-poor. That’s the bad news.

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Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

If you have a large database of user information stored on your servers, consider introducing multi-factor identification. Fortunately, there are already APIs for adding voice search recognition available. Asking users to log into your website via their Facebook account or other social media credentials is no longer recommended.

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Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Modern web application development has been simplified due to the availability of a plethora of new browser APIs. The list given here is only an example and can be customized and updated based on your website’s requirements and the time available. Dropping in babel-polyfill as is can add close to 90 KB to your minified bundle.

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Code Retail Mobile Website 58

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. Besides this, each product has some transient information like in-stock availability that is a subject of frequent updates (every 5 minutes or so). The second important piece of functionality is a faceted navigation.

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Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 19, 2014

With their tightly integrated client-side caching, IMDGs typically provide much faster access to this shared data than backing stores, such as blob stores, database servers, and NoSQL stores. ScaleOut StateServer uses different techniques on EC2 and Azure to make use of available metadata support. The Need to Keep It Simple.

Cloud 40

Cloud Azure Virtualization Scalability 40

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 19, 2014

With their tightly integrated client-side caching, IMDGs typically provide much faster access to this shared data than backing stores, such as blob stores, database servers, and NoSQL stores. ScaleOut StateServer uses different techniques on EC2 and Azure to make use of available metadata support. The Need to Keep It Simple.

Cloud 40

Cloud Azure Virtualization Scalability 40