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Frictionless retail: A pandemic imperative for IT

Dynatrace

For most who work in the retail sector, the pandemic has been an unwelcome test of our ability to cope with disruption. In eight months, retailers offering curbside pickup increased from 7% to 44%, reflecting rapidly changing consumer preferences. These are, of course, important questions. Dynatrace news. Source: McKinsey ).

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

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Subscribe to this weblogs.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

Given that I am originally from the Netherlands I have, of course, a special interest in how Dutch companies are using our cloud services. . Essent has moved to the cloud to take advantage of the low, pay-as you-go, cost model and also the flexibility and scalability the cloud provides.

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

High Scalability

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. It was a quiet week this week. Just a few more quotes.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

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.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. " Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing.

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Mitigating Capability Risk

The Agile Manager

They will change significantly over the course of fulfillment as they become better understood. Breakaway opportunities tend also to be highly sensitive to non-functional requirements, such as performance, scalability and security. All together, this means that the problem domain will be complex and dynamic. They implode on themselves.