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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. That might be a course, the opportunity to lead a project, or gaining new insights by working in another part of the company. Today, companies take their server capacity and software from the cloud.

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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. Doing so will require increasing customer lifetime value (CLV) by expanding existing customers’ wallet share while optimizing efficiencies to reduce waste. Yet resources remain scarce.

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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. Some to create efficiency. Office suites and operating systems with GUIs were once the "killer apps" for personal computers, but they've become utilities, like water, electricity or retail banking. We do some things to increase revenue.

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

High Scalability

Retail: $20 trillion. Once inside the function, there's nothing wrong with multi-threading to do the work as efficiently as possible. Matthew Dillon : This is *very* impressive efficiency. This is *very* impressive efficiency. They'll love you even more. Pflop/s : fully synchronous tensorflow data-parallel training; 3.3

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