Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

All of this puts a lot of pressure on IT systems and applications. A massive rush of users over a very short time period makes systems begin to slow, and then potentially return errors. Retail sites are usually well-prepared for these spikes, as they know when they are coming. Step 3: Understand Why Your Systems Break.

Traffic 206

Traffic Ecommerce Retail Government 206

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Log analytics is the process of viewing, interpreting, and querying log data so developers and IT teams can quickly detect and resolve application and system issues. Because digital systems are the engine of every modern organization, log analysis provides critical insight for data-driven business decision-making.

Analytics 181

Analytics Storage Retail Monitoring 181

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

They are generally backward-looking, relying on data stored in accounting and other business systems for a historical perspective. Consider the following business revenue use case: A retail chain wants to boost the average checkout transaction value by encouraging customers to add additional items to their purchase.

Analytics 227

Analytics Retail Storage Monitoring 227

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

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 182

Dynatrace

JULY 12, 2019

This can be a first check with the inventory management system to see if there are enough goods in stock. If there are enough goods available, the CRM system is contacted to get the correct discount agreement for the ordered goods with the customer. If everything is fine, a confirmation is sent out to the customer.

Retail 119

Retail Tuning Availability Systems 119

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

By carefully interrogating the system of economic incentives underlying innovations and how technologies are monetised in practice, we can generate a better understanding of the risks, both economic and technological, nurtured by a market’s structure. But how much greater are the risks for the next generation of AI systems?

Social Media 88

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 88

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

For retailers, the countdown to the holidays has begun, even if it’s still six months away. Black Friday preparation is the culmination of retailers’ efforts to attract and sustain customer relationships during the holiday season and beyond. It’s no longer a one-day event. Increasingly, consumers want an omnichannel experience.

Retail 167

Retail Infrastructure Innovation Strategy 167

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

DEM provides an outside-in approach to user monitoring that measures user experience (UX) in real time to ensure applications and services are available, functional, and well-performing across all channels of the digital experience, including web, mobile, and IoT. Endpoint monitoring (EM).

Monitoring 203

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 203

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

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

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS EU (Paris) Region, our 18th technology infrastructure Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. Now, we're opening an infrastructure Region with three Availability Zones. Today, customers can connect to the AWS EU (Paris) Region via Telehouse Voltaire.

AWS 112

AWS Artificial Intelligence Education Energy 112

Apica

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Developers implemented a new form on the store’s website and mobile app for customers to place orders on the store’s online ordering system. Driving real production-like user behaviors at cloud scale through the system can detect more defects before they can appear in front of customers. The Intellyx Take.

Retail 52

Retail Website Infrastructure Software Architecture 52

Particular Software

JANUARY 18, 2021

Real-life end bosses Let’s get a bit more concrete with some simple pseudo-code for a retail order processing system: // Some API invoked by the customer (e.g. RESTful API)ProcessNewOrder() { CollectPayment(); UpdateWarehouse(); ShipOrder();} Even from this minimal code, we can see several systems at play.

Games 64

Games Retail Network Code 64

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Visionaries are hoping to leverage blockchains to provide a secure, universal data sharing infrastructure that can help solve decades-long problems endemic to the health care system. 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.,

Blockchain 63

Blockchain Retail Innovation Healthcare 63

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is 5 Nines Availability?In However, consumers often prioritize availability in many systems. Furthermore, there are many recognized standards to measure the availability of a service or system, and the most common one is to measure it as a percentage."Five This level of availability equates to only about 5.26

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is 5 Nines Availability?In However, consumers often prioritize availability in many systems. Furthermore, there are many recognized standards to measure the availability of a service or system, and the most common one is to measure it as a percentage."Five This level of availability equates to only about 5.26

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

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.

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

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.

Website 89

Website Analytics Google Cache 89

VoltDB

JANUARY 12, 2018

And It isn’t restricted to financial institutions; fraudsters all over the world are figuring out how to make money illegally across a wide range of industries like telco, adtech, transportation, utilities, government, healthcare, and retail. These systems are fundamentally non-transactional (they lack ACID compliance).

Database 40

Database Blockchain Healthcare Transportation 40

VoltDB

JANUARY 12, 2018

And It isn’t restricted to financial institutions; fraudsters all over the world are figuring out how to make money illegally across a wide range of industries like telco, adtech, transportation, utilities, government, healthcare, and retail. These systems are fundamentally non-transactional (they lack ACID compliance).

Database 40

Database Blockchain Healthcare Transportation 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Customers tell us they poll SQS quickly because they want to retrieve messages as soon as they become available. Historically, messaging has been an important building block for building highly reliable distributed systems. All Things Distributed.

Efficiency 104

Efficiency Cloud Games Scalability 104

O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

OpenAI’s text generating system GPT-3 has captured mainstream attention. 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. Three ideas to set the stage: OpenAI is not the only organization to have powerful language models.

Social Media 138

Social Media Media Internet Internet 138

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Machine learning: a feature of AI that provides computer systems with the ability to automatically learn and improve from previous experience without being explicitly programmed. Supply chain management consists of many people, including suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and customers.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Programming Logistics 52

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

The MPP system leverages a shared-nothing architecture to handle multiple operations in parallel. Typically an MPP system has one leader node and one or many compute nodes. This allows Greenplum to distribute the load between their different segments and use all of the system’s resources parallely to process a query.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Fashion magazines are launching electronic retail sites. Although at some point each makes use of utility services such as cloud computing and ERP systems, these are strategic competitive investments into the business. It is most evident among firms such as publishers and retailers caught up in a technology arms race.

Ecommerce 45

Ecommerce Social Media Retail Airlines 45

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

In supply chain management, connections between airports, warehouses, and retail aisles are critical for cost and time optimization. Another example is for tracking inventory in a vast logistics system, where only a subset of its locations is relevant for a specific item. Graph databases at Amazon.

Database 134

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2020

All this can be done centrally from your Dynatrace cluster, regardless if you’re monitoring physical hosts, AWS EC2 server instances, services running in Kubernetes Pods, virtual machines under VMware, or any supported operating system or technology that can be monitored using Dynatrace. A few customer use cases.

Speed 133

Speed Retail Virtualization Monitoring 133

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

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

meme originated in IT’s transformation from manual system administration to automated configuration management and software deployment. We could see it as an example of 1980s-style “ expert systems ,” based on deterministic business rules. The data available to our retail business is much more limited.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Build evolvable systems. 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. We needed to build systems that embrace failure as a natural occurrence even if we did not know what the failure might be.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple. As the use cases for Redis continue to grow, customers have demanded more flexibility in scaling their workloads dynamically, while continuing to be highly available and serving incoming traffic. The system is more robust. Under the hood.

Games 112

Games Retail Latency Education 112

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. Fraud.net is a good example of this.

AWS 166

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

The Morning Paper

JUNE 18, 2019

Or a system availability SLO, for availability seen by the end user, may well depend on the user carefully exploiting the available redundancy. It also treats all outages as equal, whereas an outage on Black Friday for a retailer is much worse than an outage on a quiet day of the year.

Metrics 79

Metrics Cloud Google Network 79

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

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. We had an advanced team of database administrators and access to top experts within Oracle.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

But first of all, I’d like to make something clear right now — while the act of scraping publicly available data is legal, Amazon has some measures to prevent it on their pages. Being the largest online retailer on the planet, it’s safe to say that if you want to buy something, you can probably get it on Amazon.

Website 115

Website Code Retail Best Practices 115

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