The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

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.

Analytics 207

Analytics Innovation C++ Engineering 207

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

A topological link to an entity only makes sense, of course, if the measurement that’s sent to Dynatrace has a semantic relationship to that entity. Let’s take the example of a globally distributed retailer that collects revenue measurements every minute for all its shops worldwide.

Metrics 246

Metrics Analytics Storage Monitoring 246

Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

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. And, of course, what can actually be done to make a site faster?

Retail 52

Retail Internet Internet Education 52

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

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.

AWS 106

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 106

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Is brick-and-mortar retail dead? One way its retail bank makes money by converting deposits into loans. And, of course, nobody knows what public policy will look like, which will play a huge role in what changes are permanent and what reverts to the previous definition of normal. Are cities dead? Is cash dead?

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail C++ Transportation 52

Apica

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Customers can browse the app, configure the dinner, complete a transaction, charge a credit card – but that’s all par for the course – not the user journey we are testing now. Developers implemented a new form on the store’s website and mobile app for customers to place orders on the store’s online ordering system.

Retail 52

Retail Website Infrastructure Software Architecture 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

And these talents are by no means coveted only by companies that always had a digital business model to begin with; suppliers to the automotive industry, financial services companies, and retailers also, urgently need product managers, and technical staff who can quickly make their organizations digitally attractive to their customers.

Social Media 85

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 85

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2017

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.

Retail 45

Retail Energy Logistics Efficiency 45

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. And of course, scrapers could scrape your site to look for security vulnerabilities or exposed contact or sales lead details. Ad Scraping.

Website 89

Website Analytics Cache Google 89

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Given that I am originally from the Netherlands I have, of course, a special interest in how Dutch companies are using our cloud services. . According to Chris Zadeh, the CEO of Ohpen, large Dutch banks are already moving their entire retail banking platforms to the cloud using Ohpen core banking technology running on top of AWS.

Cloud 130

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 130

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2017

Businesses rely on a network of suppliers to operate and grow, including providers of components, back-office operations, distribution, marketing, retail, information technology and even office supplies. Of course, there are more benefits than merely convenience. ." -- Keith Jackson, ESPN 30 for 30, Who Killed the USFL?

Retail 40

Retail Network Technology Technology 40

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2020

Of course, companies can't get free office space from their employees and expect the same level of productivity from them when they are working in a distributed manner. Little or none of this may come to pass, of course. Not requiring consultant and contract labor to work on-site will reduce corporate travel costs.

Airlines 52

Airlines Government Hardware Technology 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. Most recently, he launched a fantastic new HTML5 Mastery… course. Vitaly Friedman.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2011

The CFO needs to be in front of a lot of things over the course of the year, notably earnings and cash flow. Only if the business environment has completely changed – think about what firms in everything from retail apparel to investment banking did in Q3 2008 - will we throw out the baseline.

Retail 40

Retail Airlines Tuning Government 40

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Firms in industries ranging from financial services to retail pharmacy to fast food aspire to be "platform companies." The sooner we reach the inflection point where a body of feedback confirms or contradicts a strategic decision, the more quickly we can move on to the next phase of our strategy, or change course.

Innovation 40

Innovation Retail Strategy Technology 40

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Expanding customer value while reducing costs Further, the retail financial services landscape is increasingly competitive. Over the course of a lifetime relationship, this can mean thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of opportunities that would otherwise be lost. Yet resources remain scarce.

FinTech 201

FinTech Innovation Strategy Retail 201

The Agile Manager

MAY 13, 2011

Of course, this all assumes that these acquisitions succeed in protecting the core business. 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. That still qualifies Microsoft as a cash machine.

Social Media 40

Social Media Retail Google Media 40

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

Of course, in the midst of a crisis, there are no models that forecast economic performance to any useful degree of certainty. retail square footage doesn't look like a good investment) to organizational dynamics (office square footage doesn't look like a good investment).

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

The Agile Manager

JULY 9, 2010

Retail banking serves largely a utilitarian purpose in an economy. Instead of producing large returns, of course, investment banking can produce large losses. Of course, these complex properties don't make them "high value added" services. Whether it's appropriate or not for banking isn't the purpose of this blog post.

Retail 45

Retail Technology Technology Small Business 45

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

An equity investor familiar with retail might recognize demographic changes in specific geographic areas (e.g., Most of the time, of course, we take a hybrid approach to how we invest. When we invest based on experience, our decisions are rooted in the expertise we've gained from things we've done before.

Software 40

Software Software Retail Analytics 40

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Of course, you can add additional metric access rules to the Security management zone, along with the necessary topological access. Let’s assume that your company operates hundreds of individual retail shops across the United States and you want those shops to report a selected set of business KPIs into your monitoring environment.

Metrics 208

Metrics Retail Monitoring Analytics 208

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Retail: $20 trillion. Of course, in some cases the difference to performance is small enough that one can live with it, but it’s often bad enough to be a problem. 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

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 28, 2007

That assumes, of course, that an IT organisation with excessive brownfields can remain a destination employer for top IT talent. The notion that a Brand X watch recently sold for tens of thousands of dollars at auction increases the brand’s retail marketability by suggesting it has investment-grade or heirloom properties.

Government 40

Government Retail Energy Code 40

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media. Home pages of 10 leading sites in the US and the EU, in each of the following industries: Auto, Finance, Media, Retail, Tech, and Travel. (We’ll

Benchmarking 136

Benchmarking Speed Performance Media 136

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It must: Identify a need or opportunity (the why) Offer a guiding policy for responding to the need or opportunity (the what) Define concrete actions for executing the policy (the how) There’s more to it, of course. The need or opportunity has to be well structured and specific.

Strategy 89

Strategy Retail Operating System Programming 89

Smashing Magazine

JULY 14, 2021

Of course we can have lengthy debates about the right form elements for different kind of filters — autocomplete, radios, toggles, select-dropdowns, sliders and buttons just to name a few — but in their essence, all of the form elements are just basic input, right? The Complexity of Filtering. You’ve been there before.

Design 142

Design Retail Ecommerce Mobile 142

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2022

The zoning commission for at least one county here is treating this as a compliance problem, which of course it is. The trouble is, while the properties may have been improved, many didn’t get the building inspections required for an income property, nor the permits required to rent out the properties.

Government 59

Government Retail Games Storage 59

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Of course, a bot can do that in the time it took you to read this sentence, so it’s not only less boring but a lot faster, too. Being the largest online retailer on the planet, it’s safe to say that if you want to buy something, you can probably get it on Amazon. And Puppeteer ” by Andreas Altheimer.

Website 115

Website Code Retail Best Practices 115

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2014

Of course, in software development, we often see highly skilled, abstract thinkers in the secondary labor market and lower skilled, concrete thinkers in the primary. However, the transient nature of the contract means that all members of the consultant organization are part of the retailer's secondary labor market.

Software 49

Software Software Development Retail 49

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Long interaction when opening the menu on H&M Let's compare this to another fashion retailer, French Connection. Interaction when opening the menu on French Connection Of course the French Connection page is going to have more DOM elements. The result: a processing time of 303ms.

Analytics 93

Analytics Processing Google Mobile 93

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

We can see what books and courses our customers are using, and for how long. The data available to our retail business is much more limited. The online business is information-rich; the retail business is information-poor. Like any online company, we have good visibility into what happens on the O’Reilly Learning Platform.

Games 115

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 115

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

There are plenty of examples - music publishing, mass-market retailing, local transportation - where new entrants have left a wake of creative destruction in their path. Of course, that could mean there are too many slackers in research jobs, or that we have more eggheads than our economies can afford. Inflation has risen only 6.5

Innovation 40

Innovation Retail Blockchain Transportation 40

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Cypher is used in hundreds of production applications across many industry vertical domains, such as financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing and retails, logistics, government, and healthcare. update): After CREATE and the update methods, we of course have DELETE!

Database 70

Database Logistics Healthcare Retail 70

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

" Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing. In support of Amazon Prime Day 2017, the biggest day in Amazon retail history, DynamoDB served over 12.9 million requests per second.

Internet 130

Internet Internet AWS Performance 130

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

Event listeners alone, of course, are blazingly fast, leaving plenty of room in the frame budget for other activity. It is very fast for its relatively low $400 USD retail price. React performance still isn’t great, but Preact gets us within a typical frame budget for Chrome. Given such a beefy processor, how does it deal?

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2012

The ideal firm knows our line of business: e.g., if we're a retailer, we want a solution firm that knows how to configure SAP for retail, knows some really neat shortcuts and tricks, and some obscure 3rd party vendors with some interesting tools targeted at retail. So we contract with an implementation and development firm.

Software 40

Software Software Retail Java 40

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

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.”. It’s all cloud-like, irrespective of context.”.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141