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2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail and e-commerce IT performance observations

Dynatrace

Over the years, I have watched and written about online retail and e-commerce IT performance. What I have seen is a maturing of the online retail channels when it comes to delivering customer experiences. This year we saw few, if any, major issues with online retailers. This is where many retailers have matured over the years.

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How multicloud observability boosts cloud performance at Tractor Supply Co.

Dynatrace

Rural lifestyle retail giant Tractor Supply Co. Rural lifestyle retail giant Tractor Supply Co. discussed the 85-year-old retailer’s cloud migration journey and the importance of multicloud observability at Dynatrace Perform 2023. “At one point, we saw a process that was causing a lot of CPU contention.

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The value of business events: How IT can increase business agility

Dynatrace

Business intelligence tools have earned a reputation for being inflexible, lacking the context and real-time insights needed to understand and improve business processes and customer experience. Step 2 : Add processing rules with matcher DQL, data fields, and processor definition. Use case 1: real-time business intelligence.

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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Pagespeed Benchmarks - US Retail - LCP When you examine a waterfall, it's pretty obvious that TTFB is the long pole in the tent, pushing out render times for the page.

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A Day in the Life of an Experimentation and Causal Inference Scientist @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

We worked in different industries before joining Netflix, including tech, entertainment, retail, science policy, and research. I started working at a local payment processing company after graduation, where I built survival models to calculate lifetime value and experimented with them on our brand new big data stack.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods. However, many of these models are highly parametric (i.e.

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Is brick-and-mortar retail dead? One way its retail bank makes money by converting deposits into loans. And, of course, nobody knows what public policy will look like, which will play a huge role in what changes are permanent and what reverts to the previous definition of normal. Are cities dead? Is cash dead?