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2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail and e-commerce IT performance observations

Dynatrace

Over the years, I have watched and written about online retail and e-commerce IT performance. What I have seen is a maturing of the online retail channels when it comes to delivering customer experiences. This year we saw few, if any, major issues with online retailers. This is where many retailers have matured over the years.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

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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What is FinOps? How to keep cloud spend in check

Dynatrace

Today, many global industries implement FinOps, including telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, and energy conservation, as well as most Fortune 50 companies. Additionally, include benchmarks for stakeholders and best practices that support the anticipated growth of the organization as a whole. FinOps company culture.

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Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

Dynatrace

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. Complicating the situation further, increasingly connected services are pushing more data processing to the edge. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes.

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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

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.

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eCommerce & Retail: There’s No Excuse to Ignore Performance

Rigor

Whether it be time, money, or technical know how, every day we talk to eCommerce and Retail teams who explain why they aren’t monitoring their site’s performance. Since our team is preparing for eTail West , there is no better time to address some of the common objections I’ve seen when talking to eCommerce and Retail teams about performance.

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Monitor dynamic application workflows with placeholders and synthetic location context

Dynatrace

Synthetic clickpath monitors are a great way to automatically monitor and benchmark business-critical workflows 24/7. Some common examples of such business-critical workflows include: Sign-up processes. Checking out of a retail site. Dynatrace news. Contact forms. Pricing calculators.