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How multicloud observability boosts cloud performance at Tractor Supply Co.

Dynatrace

Rural lifestyle retail giant Tractor Supply Co. Rural lifestyle retail giant Tractor Supply Co. discussed the 85-year-old retailer’s cloud migration journey and the importance of multicloud observability at Dynatrace Perform 2023. “We need to scale faster with shorter deployment times. Further, as Tractor Supply Co.

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Hello from Europe!

Speed Curve

To overcome some of these challenges, we built our own Java-based player, complete with caching, content compression, and even bandwidth detection so it could switch between video, audio, and text versions of a course depending on network speed. Ultimately the business didn’t survive the dotcom bust, but it lit a spark.

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Scaling Amazon ElastiCache for Redis with Online Cluster Resizing

All Things Distributed

Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching. Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple. Our retail customers have shared similar challenges about managing workload surges and declines driven by big sale events.

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The Future in Visual Computing: Research Challenges

ACM Sigarch

cameras) in many usages ranging from digital security/surveillance and automated retail (e.g. Such innovation in AI algorithms and approaches results in an increase in model size, exponential growth in the compute needs, caching of temporal states, and multiple models to run simultaneously.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

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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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

Since Intel had no viable competition from a performance perspective, they had little incentive to continue to innovate at the same pace. They will also have up to 256MB of L3 cache per processor. Intel became complacent over the past ten years, and ended up opening up a large opportunity for AMD.

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