Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

I’m at Shop.org this week, having really interesting conversations with online retailers. Making customers happy is the not-so-secret secret to retail success. Here's an overview of the most common performance issues on retail sites, and how you can track them down and fix them. What's making my pages seem slower?

Retail 40

Retail Performance Metrics Analytics 40

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. Greenplum Architectural Design. Greenplum Advantages.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

Smart developers are always looking ahead for ways to adapt in the ever changing world of web development. Staying on top of the latest web development trends could eventually help you land a job that doesn’t exist yet. Here is a roundup of front end web development trends to keep an eye on in 2019.

Development 101

Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

O'Reilly Software

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

A look at the stages of designing an API and service. The growing popularity of microservices and APIs has led developers to automate the repetitive aspects of these technologies, such as defining all the RESTful requests, generating templates for the target code, and scaling out new instances. The design stage.

Development 69

Development Retail Traffic Virtualization 69

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

We worked in different industries before joining Netflix, including tech, entertainment, retail, science policy, and research. Working on my PhD, I was using optimization techniques to design radiotherapy fractionation schemes to improve the results of clinical practices. Reza Badri (Content Valuation) [Reza B.] & Wenjing Z.]

Analytics 207

Analytics C++ Innovation Engineering 207

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

RUM is passive monitoring that measures a user’s interactions with an application — typically with a JavaScript tag for web applications or a software development kit (SDK) for native mobile apps.

Monitoring 209

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 209

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

Synthetic monitoring is also useful for developing baselines of performance. Some examples include: Monitoring a retailer’s online catalog to detect any increase in page load times. Providing insight into the service latency to help developers identify poorly performing code. Examples of real user monitoring.

Monitoring 184

Monitoring Latency Mobile Best Practices 184

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2014

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. The economics of this arrangement favor the few who design over the many who build. Alternatively, one firm's primary labor force may be another's secondary.

Software 49

Software Software Development Retail 49

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

The surest way to ignore such misalignment is by focusing exclusively on technical questions about AI model capabilities, divorced from the socio-economic environment in which these models will operate and be designed for profit. OpenAI is already becoming a dominant player with US$2 billion (£1.6 But not all rents are bad.

Social Media 87

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 87

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 6, 2023

(We wanted to wait until the dust settled around Black Friday/Cyber Monday for all of our friends in retail, which led to a pretty monumental release.) Now you'll see something like this: Below the x-axis, we've introduced markers to designate where deploys have occurred or notes have been posted.

Cache 57

Cache Retail Testing Code 57

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Many of those failure scenarios can be anticipated beforehand, but many more are unknown at design and build time. We’ve developed the fundamental skill of managing the “blast radius” of a failure occurrence such that the overall health of the system can be maintained. Systems need to keep running even if the “house is on fire.”

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

One thing stand-out to me is being intentional and practical about your engineering organisation design. First and foremost, being intentional about organisation design requires good and honest discussions about all possible option. Let's take an example of retail as a domain of interest. Certainly not.

Engineering 61

Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Cost-Efficient And Effort-Saving Development. The Design Gives Ground For Utmost Usability. PWAs Work In Browsers.

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Since databases are complex and have so much impact on our customers’ apps, from day 1 we have believed in delivering managed services and taking on the burden of provisioning, configuring, securing, backing up and restoring databases to enable our customers to focus on what they do best, which is to develop awesome apps for their users.

Cache 129

Cache Cloud Performance Retail 129

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. So, we set out to build a fully hosted AWS database service based upon the original Dynamo design. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

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 GoSquared , a UK startup that runs all its development and production processes on AWS, as an example.

AWS 166

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The data available to our retail business is much more limited. The online business is information-rich; the retail business is information-poor. You analyze what your staff does to process an invoice, and then design a system to perform that process. We can see what books and courses our customers are using, and for how long.

Games 114

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 114

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

Job openings for machine learning scientists, data analytics experts, IT security experts or developers are already difficult to fill, and the demand for this knowledge will increase significantly in the next few years as customers show their demand for digital engagements. Development will have to be customized for each individual.

Social Media 84

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 84

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Developers love the performance, simplicity, and in-memory capabilities of Redis, making it among the most popular NoSQL key-value stores. Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple. Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching.

Games 112

Games Retail Latency Education 112

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This" can mean anything from design and features to our own internal processes. Elena is an invaluable member of our development team – and as an athlete, adventurer, and traveller, she's equally invaluable as an inspiration for living our best lives outside work hours! Web Performance for Retailers. SpeedCurve recipes.

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

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. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. Developer Tools.

Website 89

Website Analytics Google Cache 89

O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

Indeed, Google recently announced LaMDA , a model at GPT-3 scale that is designed to participate in conversations. These projects have created language models that are based on focused datasets (for example, models designed to be more accurate for academic papers, developer forum discussions, etc.). Let’s take it a step further.

Social Media 136

Social Media Media Internet Internet 136

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. blog comments powered by Disqus.

AWS 104

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

We were going through Adobe Retail Shopping Insights (2020) and found out that more than 42% of consumers have done their holiday shopping via smartphones. A wise thing to do is to understand what sort of devices our users have so we can prioritize web development and testing for those particular devices. We can use Can I Use?

Mobile 65

Mobile Testing Website Speed 65

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Rachel Andrew. Jake Archibald. Jake Archibald.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Or worse still, it is a tautology (customers will buy aquatic taxidermy products through digital channels and from physical store locations from specialist retailers and general merchandisers). Or it is a truism (the world of aquatic taxidermy is going digital). Yet a strategy without a clear path of execution is just a theory.

Strategy 89

Strategy Retail Operating System Programming 89

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

They can be designed to execute all types of tasks from complex to simple ones. Also known as Weak AI, the machines are designed to perform a specific set of tasks. It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate. But the developers have made it happen to a certain extent.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Programming Logistics 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

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. Unless you’ve designed a truly innovative new product, the chances are that you can already find something at least similar on Amazon. And Puppeteer ” by Andreas Altheimer. More after jump!

Website 115

Website Code Retail Best Practices 115

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2021

I kept a copy of the October WSJ article intending to use it as a metaphor for large software development processes designed to optimize labor unit costs, specifically developer labor unit costs. This was a fragile system operating on borrowed time. The pattern is the same, the risks are the same, the consequences are the same.

Transportation 52

Transportation Retail Traffic Efficiency 52

Edge Perspectives

JANUARY 21, 2019

Let me start by clarifying that the transformation I’m focused on isn’t the transformation involved in moving from one business to another (let’s say, moving from being a retailer to becoming a clothing manufacturer). Front line management: Shift from control and enforcement to coaching and development.

Innovation 104

Innovation Scalability Efficiency Mobile 104

Testsigma

JULY 7, 2020

A developer may build the functionality but a tester determines the quality of the software and how well they were built. This made the organization define a proper quality control process and ensure it is being followed throughout the development of that particular unit. How easy were they to understand? What is Testing?

Testing 54

Testing Retail Processing Google 54

Testsigma

JUNE 26, 2021

Globally, organizations across banking, retail, automotive, healthcare, etc., Also, teams with agile or DevOps culture are more collaborative, and testing isn’t a tester’s responsibility alone; developers, product managers, testers work together in ensuring a high-quality product. for the next five years. simultaneously.

Testing 57

Testing Testing Tools Automotive Scalability 57

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

However, we also knew that building a distributed database that has unlimited scale and maintains predictably high performance while providing rich and flexible query capabilities, is one of the hardest problems in database development, and will take a lot of effort and invention from our team of distributed database engineers to solve.

Games 130

Games Scalability Database Retail 130

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

It seems to us that the results of our survey offer a point-in-time snapshot of the latest trends in cloud, microservices, distributed application development, and other emergent areas. More than one-third have adopted site reliability engineering (SRE); slightly less have developed production AI services. Respondent Demographics.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 25, 2020

As shown below, a chart can also show the number of notified employees by department so that managers can determine whether certain departments, such as retail outlets, need stricter policies to limit exposure to COVID-19 from outside contacts. The Benefits of an Integrated Streaming Service. Summing Up.

Airlines 52

Airlines Mobile Analytics C++ 52

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 25, 2020

As shown below, a chart can also show the number of notified employees by department so that managers can determine whether certain departments, such as retail outlets, need stricter policies to limit exposure to COVID-19 from outside contacts. The Benefits of an Integrated Streaming Service. Summing Up.

Airlines 52

Airlines Mobile Analytics C++ 52

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. In particular, we built this system on top of Oracle Coherence and designed our own data structures and indexes. In particular, we built this system on top of Oracle Coherence and designed our own data structures and indexes.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100