VoltDB

JUNE 19, 2017

Successful implementation of a VR service could have massive implications for a number of industries, such as retail. Imagine virtual retail environments, where customers browse virtual shelves and products, and converse with customers who share interests and needs. These types of applications justify the cost of 5G.

Latency 40

Latency Retail Virtualization Hardware 40

VoltDB

JUNE 19, 2017

Successful implementation of a VR service could have massive implications for a number of industries, such as retail. Imagine virtual retail environments, where customers browse virtual shelves and products, and converse with customers who share interests and needs. These types of applications justify the cost of 5G.

Latency 40

Latency Retail Virtualization Hardware 40

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

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

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 89

Website Analytics Google Cache 89

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

These interactions also need to be tracked to contain exposure within the organization, as illustrated in the following diagram: Voluntary contact self-tracing can handle the most common scenarios by using the company’s employee database to automatically connect colleagues who work in the same department and interact daily.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

These interactions also need to be tracked to contain exposure within the organization, as illustrated in the following diagram: Voluntary contact self-tracing can handle the most common scenarios by using the company’s employee database to automatically connect colleagues who work in the same department and interact daily.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

These interactions also need to be tracked to contain exposure within the organization, as illustrated in the following diagram: Voluntary contact self-tracing can handle the most common scenarios by using the company’s employee database to automatically connect colleagues who work in the same department and interact daily.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

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 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 130

Internet Internet AWS Performance 130

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

However, one thing should be obvious: to fill a prescription, you need to access many different kinds of data, in many different databases. The data available to our retail business is much more limited. The online business is information-rich; the retail business is information-poor. Most are subject to privacy regulations.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

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. Michael Porter argued in Competitive Strategy that vertical integration enabled cost leadership, which was more likely to win market share than a strategy of differentiation.

Retail 40

Retail Strategy Technology Technology 40