The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 18, 2020

I completed a combined math bachelors + masters program, but without any professional guidance, networking, or internships, I was entirely lost. I entered a PhD program in Computer Science and shortly thereafter discovered I really liked the coding aspects more than the theory. Writing code (SQL, Python) ????

Analytics 138

Analytics Retail Education Engineering 138

Particular Software

JANUARY 18, 2021

What if the end boss is a network error, power outage, concurrency conflict, or even squirrels ? 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. Some of them might support transactions, others may not.

Games 64

Games Retail Network Code 64

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. They all generally are instrumented as JavaScript processes that are loaded onto your site’s web pages through a tag or snippet of loader code.

Website 89

Website Analytics Google Cache 89

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

We were going through Adobe Retail Shopping Insights (2020) and found out that more than 42% of consumers have done their holiday shopping via smartphones. A simple way to find out if our website or a piece of code is mobile-friendly is to take up Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test. we’ll understand how these factors can affect the speed.

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Mobile Testing Website Speed 65

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Deep learning: employs artificial neural networks that keep learning constantly by processing both negative and positive data. Artificial neural networks are made to mimic the human brain. The machine uses multiple artificial neural network layers to determine and output from many inputs provided.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Programming Logistics 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Author of the Pocket Guide to Web Performance and co-author of Using WebPageTest , Andy is an independent web performance consultant in the UK who has helped many leading retailers, newspapers and financial companies make their sites faster. MDN (Mozilla Developers Network) @MozDevNet. He also co-authored High Performance Images.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

refers to cloud-based, containerized, distributed systems, made up of cooperating microservices, dynamically managed by automated infrastructure as code. . ? To this, they responded that as they were in the fashion retail business , they weren’t doing containers and didn’t think they’ll ever make it to become cloud-native.

Google 131

Google Ecommerce DevOps Cloud 131

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

refers to cloud-based, containerized, distributed systems, made up of cooperating microservices, dynamically managed by automated infrastructure as code. . ? To this, they responded that as they were in the fashion retail business , they weren’t doing containers and didn’t think they’ll ever make it to become cloud-native.

Google 130

Google Ecommerce DevOps Cloud 130

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

It makes organizing code easier. Server rendering is also cool—even if that’s just how we say “send HTML over the network” these days. To me, it makes sense to simultaneously want to use a framework to help to organize my code, but also restrict that framework’s negative impact on the user experience. I think JSX is great.

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's most forward-thinking businesses. Fraud.net uses AWS to build and train machine learning models in detecting online payment fraud.

AWS 166

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Modern applications need to quickly navigate connections in the physical world of people, cities, and public transit stations as well as the virtual world of search terms, social posts, and genetic code, for example. Like many AWS innovations, the desire to build a solution for a scalable graph database came from Amazon’s retail business.

Database 134

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Get it wrong and you’re looking at sleepless nights, struggling to keep up with growth and fighting to keep your app available while you rewrite critical portions of your code. The db.cr1.8xlarge has 88 ECUs, 244GB of memory, high-bandwidth network, and the ability to deliver up to 20,000 IOPS for MySQL 5.6,

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Cache Cloud Performance Retail 129

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

in ML and neural networks) and access to vast amounts of data. Hubspot could take advantage of advanced AI and ML capabilities provided by Amazon Lex, without having to code the algorithms. With this fast and accurate API, retail businesses can respond to their customers online or in store immediately by delivering targeted ads.

AWS 165

AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Mobile 165