All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS. Customers tell us they poll SQS quickly because they want to retrieve messages as soon as they become available. With long polling, SQS instead waits for a message to become available and sends it to the client if the message arrives within a customer-defined time period.

Efficiency 104

Efficiency Cloud Games Scalability 104

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

Market structure is not simply the number of firms, but the cost structure and economic incentives in the market that follow from the institutions, adjacent government regulations, and available financing. These platforms made markets more efficient and delivered enormous value both to users and to product suppliers.

Social Media 88

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 88

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

However, in large enterprise landscapes where many teams must work together and share data within complex web-scale monitoring environments, you need to focus each team’s attention on the data that they’re responsible for, rather than dumping all available data on them.

Metrics 196

Metrics Retail Monitoring Analytics 196

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. I have seen our customers do so many radical new things with the analytics tools that our partners and us make available that I have made a few observations I would like to share with you.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

we also: Launched a series of new and improved dashboards to help you identify and fix your performance issues more quickly and efficiently (More on those below.). The results – including detailed performance optimization recommendations – are available in your test details.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 16, 2019

It’s still a long way until a blockchain-driven registry is widely available in Sweden, but estimates put taxpayers’ potential savings at over $100 million a year. More than 100 companies are involved with IBM’s Food Trust network, including many consumer packaged goods companies and grocery retailers. In the U.S., Advertising.

Blockchain 63

Blockchain Retail Innovation Healthcare 63

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

We worked in different industries before joining Netflix, including tech, entertainment, retail, science policy, and research. The tooling here is amazing, which made it easy for me to make my models available at scale across the company. Mihir Tendulkar (Payments) [Mihir T.]

Analytics 207

Analytics C++ Innovation Engineering 207

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Cost-Efficient And Effort-Saving Development. But this “look” is now available in browsers. And frankly, the feature set of progressive web applications for online retail continuously expands. Below are some main things to consider.

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

It can be used to decouple your frontend from your backend and improve server efficiency. Customer Service Chatbots Speaking of which, artificial intelligence has evolved to the point that bots can answer customers’ questions and solve problems more efficiently than humans.

Development 101

Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

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. The valuation of crypto today is consequential to financial markets and the net worth of retail and institutional investors.

Social Media 138

Social Media Media Internet Internet 138

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Supply chain management consists of many people, including suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and customers. Some of those vital areas of supply management system where AI can make the process more efficient, simple and easy are. There are many business processes that can be optimized using artificial intelligence (AI).

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Programming Logistics 52

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.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Modern web application development has been simplified due to the availability of a plethora of new browser APIs. Commonly used ones are fetch , for requesting for resources, IntersectionObserver , for efficiently observing the visibility of elements, and the URL specification, which makes reading and manipulation of URLs on the web easier.

Code 58

Code Retail Mobile Website 58

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2019

So pharma manufacturers were motivated to avail free samples of medicines to doctors. The Journal makes the point that the would-be disruptors in home meal kits have done more to disrupt one another than they have to established players in retail food, and that's an important point. It's a regulated activity.

FinTech 40

FinTech Strategy Retail Innovation 40

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

React does alright here, but Preact seems to handle event listeners a bit more efficiently. It is very fast for its relatively low $400 USD retail price. navigator.deviceMemory (available in Chrome and derived browsers) enables you to change the user experience for users on devices with little memory.

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Developers need efficient methods to store, traverse, and query these relationships. In supply chain management, connections between airports, warehouses, and retail aisles are critical for cost and time optimization. Social media apps navigate relationships between friends, photos, videos, pages, and followers.

Database 134

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

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. Get it right and your application will seamlessly scale from hundreds to tens of millions of users without difficulty, while remaining performant and available.

Cache 129

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. Efficient Queries. What are Global Secondary Indexes?

Games 130

Games Scalability Database Retail 130

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. AWS is not only affordable but it is secure and scales reliably to drive efficiencies into business transformations.

AWS 166

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

There is an alternative perspective that is far more optimistic : digital companies drive down costs through hyper-efficiency (speed, automation and machine scale) and price transparency. The argument for this invisible efficiency is that economic models have simply failed to change in ways that reflect this phenomenon.

Energy 52

Energy Government Entertainment Innovation 52

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2016

The thinking was that by owning the supply chain from raw materials to retail outlets, a firm had direct control over its entire cost structure, making it better able to squeeze efficiencies out of it and being less susceptible to supply shocks. As far back as the 19th century, industrial firms pursued vertical integration strategies.

Blockchain 40

Blockchain Retail Social Media Airlines 40

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

But we couldn’t adopt the old style approach of upgrading systems through a maintenance outage, as many businesses around the world are relying on our platform for 24/7 availability. This was a lesson we had already learned from our experiences with Amazon retail, but it became even more important for AWS’s API-centric business.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The data available to our retail business is much more limited. The online business is information-rich; the retail business is information-poor. What would happen to product design, sales, and engineering if a constant digest of issues from customer service were available to them? That’s the bad news.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2014

Although this may be the case, generally speaking a business is less effective if it's primary labor force consists of people who are concrete thinkers, and it is less efficient if its secondary labor are abstract thinkers. The economics of this arrangement favor the few who design over the many who build.

Software 49

Software Software Development Retail 49

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

Oddly, about 3% of non-adopters cited cost as a primary reason not to move workloads to cloud; cost-efficiency is usually touted as one of cloud’s most attractive features. Obviously, no combination of issues or trends can exceed more than 100% of available bandwidth. The answer to the latter question has to be “yes.”.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141