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.]

Analytics 207

Analytics C++ Innovation Engineering 207

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. These platforms made markets more efficient and delivered enormous value both to users and to product suppliers.

Social Media 88

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 88

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

Some examples include: Monitoring a retailer’s online catalog to detect any increase in page load times. Analyzing a clinician’s clickstream when using an electronic medical record system to better improve the efficiency of data entry. This can help to identify performance issues before too many users experience them.

Monitoring 182

Monitoring Latency Mobile Best Practices 182

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

Therefore, they are designed to adapt to the browser, screen size, and device specifications of the user. It can be used to decouple your frontend from your backend and improve server efficiency. They are especially useful in grid-based design. Except to see such ambient design elements increase in popularity.

Development 101

Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

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. Recent Entries. Amazon DynamoDB â??

AWS 106

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 106

O'Reilly Software

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

A look at the stages of designing an API and service. In this article, I'll explore the tasks in designing a microservice and suggest the parts that can respond to automation. The design stage. For instance, the verbs on a retail site might include browsing, adding to a shopping cart, buying, and rating.

Development 69

Development Retail Traffic Virtualization 69

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). But the bottom line is that the scalable efficiency model is ultimately a diminishing returns model.

Innovation 104

Innovation Scalability Efficiency Mobile 104

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

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Heatmap of the most popular pages and their Web Vitals metrics I then typically switch to the RUM > Design dashboard and use the list of popular interaction elements to determine which ones I want to investigate further. Could the design of the interaction be changed to avoid it? > Does the stylesheet need to be injected?

Analytics 92

Analytics Processing Google Mobile 92

Testsigma

JUNE 26, 2021

Globally, organizations across banking, retail, automotive, healthcare, etc., In all honesty, it wasn’t always practical or simple, but with codeless test automation – test automation that does not require learning to code – testers can now focus on what’s crucial: shipping efficient products. simultaneously.

Testing 57

Testing Testing Tools Automotive Scalability 57

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. The primary task machines can perform are learning, reasoning and perception.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Programming Logistics 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

Digitalization offers almost endless possibilities to communicate faster, work more efficiently, and be more creative – in real-time. How companies can prepare themselves to attract the best talents for shaping their digital business. Today, companies take their server capacity and software from the cloud.

Social Media 85

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 85

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.).

Social Media 138

Social Media Media Internet Internet 138

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

cameras) in many usages ranging from digital security/surveillance and automated retail (e.g. Architecture and workload analysis research for these growing areas including the use of QoS (multiple models), innovative caching hierarchies (capturing state), addressing compute efficiency as well as programmability becomes critical.

Wireless 54

Wireless IoT Analytics Architecture 54

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

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. This was a lesson we had already learned from our experiences with Amazon retail, but it became even more important for AWS’s API-centric business. Systems need to keep running even if the “house is on fire.”

AWS 147

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 147

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. All around us we see that the AWS capabilities foster a culture of experimentation with businesses of all sizes.

AWS 166

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Certain parts of our architecture used to run on relational databases but we just couldn’t scale them fast enough to meet the demands of our fast growing online retail business, particularly during the holiday shopping seasons. In a relational database, the memory working set size is critical for database performance.

Cache 131

Cache Cloud Performance Retail 131

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Moreover, a GSI''s performance is designed to meet DynamoDB''s single digit millisecond latency - you can add items to a Users table for a gaming app with tens of millions of users with UserId as the primary key, but retrieve them based on their home city, with no reduction in query performance. Efficient Queries. Start with DynamoDB.

Games 130

Games Scalability Database Retail 130

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2021

Though supremely efficient at sea, Emma and the even larger ships that followed in her wake became a nightmare. Optimization of the oceangoing containership fleet came at the cost of the efficiency of the rest of the supply chain into which it was integrated. In other words it creates devastating Black Swans.”

Transportation 52

Transportation Retail Traffic Efficiency 52

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. Designing the loop needs to be part of the automation plan.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2014

Although this may be the case, generally speaking a business is less effective if it's primary labor force consists of people who are concrete thinkers, and it is less efficient if its secondary labor are abstract thinkers. The economics of this arrangement favor the few who design over the many who build.

Software 49

Software Software Development Retail 49

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

Designing a survey inevitably entails making a spate of methodological trade-offs. Oddly, about 3% of non-adopters cited cost as a primary reason not to move workloads to cloud; cost-efficiency is usually touted as one of cloud’s most attractive features. The answer to the latter question has to be “yes.”.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2015

There isn't much you can do to squeeze operating cash flow efficiency from the asset-heavy business, aside from minimizing overhead costs associated with investing activity. But you can squeeze the operating company for efficiencies, reducing total labor costs with things such as customer self-service.

Airlines 40

Airlines Entertainment Retail Efficiency 40