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How Amazon is solving big-data challenges with data lakes

All Things Distributed

Fast-forward 25 years, Amazon's retail business has more than 175 fulfillment centers (FC) worldwide with over 250,000 full-time associates shipping millions of items per day. Amazon's worldwide financial operations team has the incredible task of tracking all of that data (think petabytes).

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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.

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Conducting log analysis with an observability platform and full data context

Dynatrace

Using Grail to heal observability pains Grail logs not only store big data, but also map out dependencies to enable fast analytics and data reasoning. Business leaders can decide which logs they want to use and tune storage to their data needs. Seamless integration. Fast, precise answers. ” Watch session now!

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Kubernetes in the wild report 2023

Dynatrace

In general, metrics collectors and providers are most common, followed by log and tracing projects. Big data : To store, search, and analyze large datasets, 32% of organizations use Elasticsearch. The data covers the period of January 2021 through September 2022. Databases : Among databases, Redis is the most used at 60%.

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RSA Guide 2023: Cloud application security remains core challenge for organizations

Dynatrace

This includes collecting metrics, logs, and traces from all applications and infrastructure components. 2022 CISO Report: Retail sector – report Dive deep into the state of runtime vulnerability management in retail and how to protect your brand.

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A Day in the Life of an Experimentation and Causal Inference Scientist @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

We worked in different industries before joining Netflix, including tech, entertainment, retail, science policy, and research. I started working at a local payment processing company after graduation, where I built survival models to calculate lifetime value and experimented with them on our brand new big data stack.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Developers representing hundreds of companies work together at these meetups to become masters in performance metrics and the latest trends in measuring site speed.) And, of course, you should follow him on Twitter @ igrigorik for in-depth insights on web performance metrics, user experience, and industry news. Maximiliano Firtman.