O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed. Mandatory disclosure of ad load and other operating metrics might have helped to prevent Facebook, for example, from exploiting its users’ privacy in order to maximise ad dollars from harvesting each user’s data.

Social Media 87

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 87

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. Traditional platforms for streaming analytics don’t offer the combination of granular data tracking and real-time aggregate analysis that logistics applications in operational environments such as these require.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. Traditional platforms for streaming analytics don’t offer the combination of granular data tracking and real-time aggregate analysis that logistics applications in operational environments such as these require.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. Traditional platforms for streaming analytics don’t offer the combination of granular data tracking and real-time aggregate analysis that logistics applications such as these require.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's most forward-thinking businesses. Take Peterborough City Council as an example.

AWS 166

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

My journey into performance started in the late 1990s, while I was working for an elearning provider and discovering the challenges of delivering rich content over the internet. We collect a treasure trove of data about the performance of our customers’ sites. I think that was the point I became hooked!

Retail 52

Retail Internet Internet Education 52

O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. OpenAI’s text generating system GPT-3 has captured mainstream attention. Three ideas to set the stage: OpenAI is not the only organization to have powerful language models.

Social Media 136

Social Media Media Internet Internet 136

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Food Trust is a blockchain ecosystem that covers more than 100 organizations, including Carrefour and the top four grocery retailers in the U.S. Much like the Internet, how you use the technology depends on your perspective and objectives. Where is the strategic business value? Blockchains are a multi-function, multi-use tool.

Blockchain 68

Blockchain IoT Logistics Internet 68

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. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

AWS 104

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

Rigor

MARCH 20, 2018

I recently was asked the following question by an online retailer: “Why should I invest in monitoring the user experience when I already have monitoring for our database, infrastructure, app server, and network?”. Or are you an eCommerce retailer?” They quickly understood my point.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Retail Ecommerce Infrastructure 40

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

Now that nearly everyone with internet access is web literate, developers need to start literally thinking outside of the box to hold the attention of the user. Consumers are thinking harder about who they share their information with, so don’t ask for data that you don’t need.

Development 101

Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Today, I want to focus on helping app developers who have chosen to develop their apps on AWS and have in the past developed some of the seminal apps of our times on AWS, such as Netflix, AirBnB, or Pinterest or created internet connected devices powered by AWS such as Alexa and Dropcam.

AWS 165

AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Mobile 165

The Morning Paper

JUNE 18, 2019

The VM is reachable from the Internet? It also treats all outages as equal, whereas an outage on Black Friday for a retailer is much worse than an outage on a quiet day of the year. On what granularity (seconds, minutes, calendar months, rolling 30 days,…)? What is ‘up’? The VM is provisioned? The VM is running an OS?

Metrics 79

Metrics Cloud Google Network 79

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Based on the data provided by divante ’s findings on 30 PWA case studies, progressive web apps have a 36% larger mobile conversion rate than native applications. But these are mostly big players,” you might think. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Advanced Key-value data stores such as DynamoDB achieve high scalability on loosely coupled clusters by using the primary key as the partitioning key to distribute data across nodes. Each item is a collection of data attributes. Going beyond Key-Value. DynamoDB Refresher. Start with DynamoDB.

Games 130

Games Scalability Database Retail 130

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

Making matters worse, conflicting and often erroneous real-time data leads to false optimism or false pessimism. Meanwhile, the emergence of internet technology had availed a skilled global workforce to deep-pocketed corporate IT buyers in Europe and the United States.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2019

By way of example, at the time the internet travel booking business had a take rate of somewhere between 5 and 10% of the value of the travel services they were selling; intermediaries had a take rate of a tiny fraction of a percent of the value of the product order they were submitting. When intermediaries made enough mistakes (e.g.,

FinTech 40

FinTech Strategy Retail Innovation 40

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. Would you like to be a part of Big Data and this incredible project?

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89