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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. While working on my PhD in political science, I realized my curiosity was always more piqued by methodological coursework, which led me to take as many stats/data science courses as I could. & Wenjing Z.]

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Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. - All Things.

All Things Distributed

For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. For example, when our retail customers contributed to create larger economies of scale for Amazon.com, we used the savings to lower pricing such that our customers could also benefit. blog comments powered by Disqus.

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How companies can become magnets for digital talent

All Things Distributed

Digitalization offers almost endless possibilities to communicate faster, work more efficiently, and be more creative – in real-time. Previously, the top priorities for IT departments were equipping data centers with hardware, purchasing software, and further developing proprietary software.

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Where Has All the Business Knowledge Gone?

The Agile Manager

The client in question purchased and warehoused perishable items, hundreds of thousands of different SKUs that they distributed to retailers ranging from tiny independents to large global chains. Cheap distribution keeps product prices down, which makes their retail clients more competitive. At this point, the cracks started to appear.

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Accelerating digital transformation for financial services companies with a unified observability platform

Dynatrace

Expanding customer value while reducing costs Further, the retail financial services landscape is increasingly competitive. Winning the loyalty of these increasingly fickle customers requires the right investments—in personalization, customer service, developing innovative products, and bringing them to market faster.

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Microsoft and Skype: The Business Value of Protecting a (Cash-Gushing) Utility

The Agile Manager

Of course, this all assumes that these acquisitions succeed in protecting the core business. This makes clear three very important lessons in tech investing, be it developing custom software or acquiring a technology firm. Some to create efficiency. But that business is so lucrative, it's worth a shot." Utilities are important.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 7th, 2018

High Scalability

Retail: $20 trillion. JoeEmison : Lies that developers tell (themselves): (1) This is the best stack/IaaS for us to use [reality: I know it and want to start now] (2) DevOps doesn’t matter until scaling [you’ll spend 30% of your time dealing with ops then] (3) We’ll just rebuild it if we get traction [hahahaha].

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