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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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Black Friday traffic exposes gaps in observability strategies

Dynatrace

If the mantra in sales is “Always be closing,” the mantra for online retail storefronts is “Always be online.”. Peak loads can overload and crash retailer websites and derail customer interactions. Customer experience has become paramount for retailers, as visitors demand instant responses — especially during times of high volume.

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Kubernetes in the wild report 2023

Dynatrace

This trend shows that organizations are dedicating significantly more Kubernetes clusters to running software build, test, and deployment pipelines. Accordingly, for classic database use cases, organizations use a variety of relational databases and document stores. The data covers the period of January 2021 through September 2022.

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COVID-19 and Digital Services: An Action Plan for the Unexpected

Dynatrace

While most government agencies and commercial enterprises have digital services in place, the current volume of usage — including traffic to critical employment, health and retail/eCommerce services — has reached levels that many organizations have never seen before or tested against. Documentation is good.

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Understanding the performance impact of anti-flicker snippets

Speed Curve

But as you can see in these filmstrips of Wiggle, a UK cycling retailer, hiding the page can have a dramatic impact on a visitor's experience: Comparison of a site loading with (top) and without (bottom) the anti-flicker snippet enabled. The test in top row has the anti-flicker snippet in place. before the hero image.

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Testing vs Quality Assurance vs. Quality Control What’s the Difference?

Testsigma

When we talk about quality in terms of a software application, we also hear the term ‘Testing’ a lot. But it is not just about Testing or just about Quality, is it? There are more terms like Quality Assurance and Quality Control which again are quite often confused with Testing. . What is Testing? What is Quality Control?

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What is real user monitoring (RUM)?

Dynatrace

Whereas RUM can capture all the nuances of your real users, providing a true picture into their experience, synthetic monitoring is great for proactive simulation and testing of the expected user experience. Some examples include: Monitoring a retailer’s online catalog to detect any increase in page load times.