All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. In the past analytics within an organization was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralized data warehouse running on specialized hardware. Cloud enables self-service analytics.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

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

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Andrew Ng , Christopher Ré , and others have pointed out that in the past decade, we’ve made a lot of progress with algorithms and hardware for running AI. Our current set of AI algorithms are good enough, as is our hardware; the hard problems are all about data. The data available to our retail business is much more limited.

Games 114

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 114

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This genetics R&D is crucial for Unliver to develop new products faster; for example comparing a healthy mouth with one with gingivitis - by identifying the shared genes amongst these two can be very helpful in developing the next generation of toothpaste.

Cloud 129

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Today, there are thousands of machine learning scientists and developers applying machine learning in various places, from recommendations to fraud detection, from inventory levels to book classification to abusive review detection. in ML and neural networks) and access to vast amounts of data.

AWS 165

AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Mobile 165

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. Pervasively poor results are part of why responsible public sector organisations are forced to develop HTML-first, progressive enhancement guidance in stark opposition to the "frontend consensus".

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2020

A small merchant wanting to do more business digitally didn't have the balance sheet to finance development of digital capabilities, let alone drive consumer behavior change to use those capabilities. They've had to scramble because small merchants have largely relied on legacy consumer buying habits.

Airlines 52

Airlines Government Hardware Technology 52

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. Companies reduced their labor expense, and the hardware and software they acquired appeared on the balance sheet as capital investments in the business. The research of the time supported this.

Retail 40

Retail Strategy Technology Technology 40

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Second, Continuous Delivery - deploying software hourly or daily instead of monthly or quarterly - blurs the lines among traditional development stages. retailers) and asset-heavy finance companies (e.g., Similarly, software development as an R&D expense does the CFO no favors on the income statement.

Cloud 40

Cloud Retail Hardware Software 40

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

When even a bit of React can be a problem on devices slow and fast alike, using it is an intentional choice that effectively excludes people with low-end hardware. Most developers—I hope —aren’t going to rely solely on React to drive such simple behavior for just one thing on their website. My RSS feed app is still in development.

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

In the years leading up to 2000, there was aggressive spend on technology: insulation against fears of the Y2K bug (legacy software and hardware with time functions that wouldn't properly roll over to 01/01/2000) as well as development of new business and consumer technology to exploit what was then nascent internet technology.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. Taking into account the previous considerations, performance requirements were set as 1000 faceted navigation requests/second per typical hardware blade. Data capacity of the system is not less than 1 million products.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100