Speed Curve

DECEMBER 11, 2019

This allows you to do things like increase the sample rate for an A/B test group for comparison with a control group when the test group is extremely small. Whether you're a retail site, financial services, media or other, you likely have a smaller set of users that you are VERY interested in.

Retail 59

Retail Traffic Media Metrics 59

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2011

Businesses are held to specific reporting cycles, but not every month or quarter is going to be the same: businesses that are seasonal such as retail or cyclical such as railroads will go through longer spans of time before they know whether their forecasts about revenue prove true or not. Banks make money by borrowing short and lending long.

Retail 40

Retail Airlines Tuning Government 40

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

In comparison, the countries with prevalent zero rating practices from their wireless carriers consistently saw data prices increase. Retail investors have to put their money somewhere. EFF : EU countries that do not have zero rating practices enjoyed a double digit drop in the price of wireless data after a year.

Internet 188

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 188

Speed Curve

MARCH 24, 2024

This custom metric comparison illustrates that performance characteristics can be drastically different between soft navigations and full-page navigations : The differences between the full and soft SPA navigations can have a big impact on other derived metrics as well, such as user happiness: Hidden pages: To track or not to track?

Performance 72

Performance Cache Metrics Retail 72

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Retail: $20 trillion. For comparison, Google's fibers use a new Linux system call that can switch between two tasks in about the same time, including the kernel time. They'll love you even more. Pflop/s : fully synchronous tensorflow data-parallel training; 3.3 Cars: $1 trillion.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

Smashing Magazine

JULY 14, 2021

Part 4: Perfect Feature Comparison. A good example of it is Rozetka.ua , an eCommerce retailer from Ukraine (see above). Whenever users can define a large range of values, be it pricing range in retail store, max duration of a train trip or a min/max coverage for an insurance plan, we probably will use some sort of a slider.

Design 142

Design Retail Ecommerce Mobile 142

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2014

a single person may have multiple accounts, while "active" is a relative term), making comparisons difficult. By comparison, well established businesses in industries like air travel or retail banking are expected to be predictable. These are non-financial measures that are calculated differently across firms (e.g.,

Social Media 40

Social Media Retail Ecommerce Media 40

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

Twined with the radical reduction of information asymmetry (particularly with regard to product price data), it stands to reason that there has been significant productivity growth in western economies: supply chains have never been so optimized, retail and wholesale transactions so price-fair and friction-free.

Energy 52

Energy Government Entertainment Innovation 52

SQL Performance

AUGUST 23, 2019

A further optimization exists to convert the compressed dictionary bitmap to a comparison filter if the dictionary bitmap represents a single contiguous range of values. LTGT for a less than/greater than comparison). In that case you will see something other than RAWBITMAP (e.g. Extended Events and Trace Flags.

Servers 75

Servers Engineering Efficiency Retail 75

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. In particular, we built this system on top of Oracle Coherence and designed our own data structures and indexes.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

A comparison of respondent organization size and share of applications hosted in the cloud. Is it more credible for a large cloud service like Amazon, Google, IBM, or Microsoft to argue that its employees are essential than—for example—the IT staff of a major cosmetics retailer? The answer to the latter question has to be “yes.”.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

With this fast and accurate API, retail businesses can respond to their customers online or in store immediately by delivering targeted ads. Each detected face is transformed into an irreversible vector representation, and this feature vector (and not the underlying image itself) is used for comparison and search. Face recognition.

AWS 166

AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Mobile 166