article thumbnail

Happy 15th Birthday Amazon S3 -- the service that started it all

All Things Distributed

We had to rethink everything previously known about building scalable systems. Storage was one of our biggest pain points, and the traditional systems we used just weren’t fitting the needs of the Amazon.com retail business. Back then, Amazon was ~2% of its size today, and was growing faster than traditional IT systems could support.

Ecommerce 216
article thumbnail

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.

Retail 152
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

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. He is a co-organizer of the London Web Performance meetup. Philip Tellis. Philip Tellis.

article thumbnail

What is Kubernetes? Orchestrating the world at the age of a first grader

Dynatrace

To this, they responded that as they were in the fashion retail business , they weren’t doing containers and didn’t think they’ll ever make it to become cloud-native. How do you make it scalable? . But how will you set up the communication? Who manage s the networking aspects? Enter the orchestration platform.? .

Google 132
article thumbnail

What is Kubernetes? Orchestrating the world at the age of a first grader

Dynatrace

To this, they responded that as they were in the fashion retail business , they weren’t doing containers and didn’t think they’ll ever make it to become cloud-native. How do you make it scalable? . But how will you set up the communication? Who manage s the networking aspects? Enter the orchestration platform.?.

Google 130
article thumbnail

Hierarchical Navigation and Faceted Search on Top of Oracle Coherence

Highly Scalable

Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. This description should not be considered as a solid blueprint, but rather a collection of the relatively independent ideas, patterns, and notes that can be used in different combinations and in different applications, not only in eCommerce systems.

Ecommerce 100