All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

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. Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. By Werner Vogels on 29 June 2011 09:55 AM. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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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.

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2014

A person in the primary labor force is a knowledge worker: they are expected to be highly skilled, abstract thinkers who are concerned with systemic issues. 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.

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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!

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Database Logistics Healthcare Retail 70

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.

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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.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS). 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.

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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

Technical leads and architects (about 11%) are next, followed by software and systems architects (9+%). deep learning) will likely play an important role in observing the observable systems that we build, just as AI-directed rules and AI-driven automation will be critical for managing and securing these systems.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

It never really disappeared, of course, it just wasn't as common. retailers) and asset-heavy finance companies (e.g., But we also know that a lot of firms still license captive ERP systems (no SaaS), operate captive data centers (no Cloud), and issue hardware to employees (no BYOD). For one thing, we're not really there yet.

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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.

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The Agile Manager

JULY 9, 2010

Retail banking serves largely a utilitarian purpose in an economy. With stability comes confidence in the financial system (a confidence underwritten by federal deposit insurance), and that confidence is a pillar of a strong society. Instead of producing large returns, of course, investment banking can produce large losses.

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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

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

An equity investor familiar with retail might recognize demographic changes in specific geographic areas (e.g., A voyage of discovery is well suited for developing a product for a new market, but not for an upgrade to a core transactional system. Most of the time, of course, we take a hybrid approach to how we invest.

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The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 28, 2007

They will change significantly over the course of fulfillment as they become better understood. It is subsequently highly likely that there will be new or emergent technologies applied, if not outright invented, over the course of delivery. All together, this means that the problem domain will be complex and dynamic.

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Government Retail Best Practices Technology 40