Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Author of the Pocket Guide to Web Performance and co-author of Using WebPageTest , Andy is an independent web performance consultant in the UK who has helped many leading retailers, newspapers and financial companies make their sites faster. The future of HTTP/2 server push. He is a co-organizer of the London Web Performance meetup.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It can scale towards a multi-petabyte level data workload without a single issue, and it allows access to a cluster of powerful servers that will work together within a single SQL interface where you can view all of the data. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

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. we just shipped a ton of stuff! (We

Cache 57

Cache Retail Testing Code 57

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!

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Website Code Retail Best Practices 115

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. Serverless Applications Managing your own server is so 2018. They are especially useful in grid-based design.

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Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

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. A good litmus test has been that if you need to SSH into a server or an instance, you still have more to automate. We knew that designing APIs was a very important task as we’d only have one chance to get it right.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

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. We offer high availability options called Amazon RDS Multi-AZ and commit to an availability SLA of 99.95%.

Cache 129

Cache Cloud Performance Retail 129

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. 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.

AWS 166

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple. Our retail customers have shared similar challenges about managing workload surges and declines driven by big sale events. However, the slots must be moved manually on the server side.

Games 112

Games Retail Latency Education 112

The Morning Paper

JUNE 18, 2019

” These are SLOs that inform a customer’s application design, and failure to meet them may result in invalidated design assumptions — which doesn’t generally turn out well! It also treats all outages as equal, whereas an outage on Black Friday for a retailer is much worse than an outage on a quiet day of the year.

Metrics 79

Metrics Cloud Google Network 79

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 91

Analytics Processing Google Mobile 91

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. The data available to our retail business is much more limited. The online business is information-rich; the retail business is information-poor.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

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

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

cameras) in many usages ranging from digital security/surveillance and automated retail (e.g. Such compression is designed to replicate the data such that the reconstruction losses are imperceptible to the human eye. Much of workload analysis and architecture research tends to focus on either the device alone or the cloud server.

Wireless 54

Wireless IoT Analytics Architecture 54

Rigor

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Modern sites or apps don’t exist in one single, specific place; they are fragmented across many virtual and physical systems, in different locations, in a variety of ways: Applications can be multitiered , with different systems living in different (physical or virtual) servers or entirely different data centers.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Performance Cache Ecommerce 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