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. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3.

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AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

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. We think of web scraping as a tool used to harvest web content for information analysis purposes, sometimes to the detriment of the site owner.

Website 90

Website Analytics Cache Google 90

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Amazon ElastiCache embodies much of what makes fast data a reality for customers looking to process high volume data at incredible rates, faster than traditional databases can manage. Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple. However, the slots must be moved manually on the server side.

Games 112

Games Retail Latency Education 112

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. The Rise of Cloud Computing.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Retail Ecommerce Infrastructure 40

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

It can be used to decouple your frontend from your backend and improve server efficiency. Serverless Applications Managing your own server is so 2018. If you have a large database of user information stored on your servers, consider introducing multi-factor identification.

Development 101

Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

O'Reilly Software

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I suggested the radical modular breakdown of applications in a 2002 article , saying that: "the application , once the central fixture of computer use, would dissolve into a soup of servers, application fragments, and user interfaces." You also have to decide how fine-grained and nested your RESTful API should be. The deployment stage.

Development 69

Development Retail Traffic Virtualization 69

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Alibaba is one of the e-commerce giants that have “run the gamut” from a regular online retail store to a native application (created for mobile shopping purposes) and then on to a PWA. These multiple “heads” are attached to the backend and database.

Code 75

Code Cache Retail Mobile 75

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 22, 2017

In classic Extract, transform, and load (ETL) model, we store entities in their corresponding application databases i.e. as rows in the relational tables. Then we perform frequent batch ETL from application databases to a data warehouse.

Big Data 40

Big Data Retail Storage Google 40

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Take these statistics from Google’s industry benchmarks for mobile page speed : That same guide also goes into detail regarding the page speed, page weight, as well as additional insights on specific industries, such as automotive, technology, and retail. Static sites don’t require a backend or database and are much more simple to manage.

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Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 25, 2020

Using information from the company’s organizational database, it populates each twin with the employee’s ID, team ID, department type, and location. The demo application creates a memory-based real-time digital twin for each employee. The Benefits of an Integrated Streaming Service.

Airlines 52

Airlines Mobile Analytics C++ 52

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 25, 2020

Using information from the company’s organizational database, it populates each twin with the employee’s ID, team ID, department type, and location. The demo application creates a memory-based real-time digital twin for each employee. The Benefits of an Integrated Streaming Service.

Airlines 52

Airlines Mobile Analytics C++ 52

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

In the 1970s, the predominant business strategy was vertical integration: own the value chain from raw materials to retail outlets. The research of the time supported this. Business strategy changed in the 1990s, insisting that companies were better off focusing on "core competencies" while renting anything deemed non-core.

Retail 40

Retail Strategy Technology Technology 40

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 19, 2014

As more computing resources are needed to handle a growing workload, virtual servers (also called cloud “ instances ”) can be added to take up the slack. For example, consider a web server farm handling requests for web users or mobile apps. Cloud-based applications enjoy the unique elasticity that cloud infrastructures provide.

Cloud 40

Cloud Azure Virtualization Scalability 40

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 19, 2014

As more computing resources are needed to handle a growing workload, virtual servers (also called cloud “ instances ”) can be added to take up the slack. For example, consider a web server farm handling requests for web users or mobile apps. Cloud-based applications enjoy the unique elasticity that cloud infrastructures provide.

Cloud 40

Cloud Azure Virtualization Scalability 40

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The following example demonstrates this with a Koa server: const Koa = require('koa') const app = new Koa() const send = require('koa-send') const { matchesUA } = require('browserslist-useragent') var router = new Router() app.use(router.routes()) router.get('/', async (ctx, next) => { const useragent = ctx.get('User-Agent').

Code 58

Code Retail Mobile Website 58

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It’s possible to augment this basic process with OCR so the application can find data on paper forms, or to use natural language processing to gather information through a chat server. However, one thing should be obvious: to fill a prescription, you need to access many different kinds of data, in many different databases.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116