O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

By carefully interrogating the system of economic incentives underlying innovations and how technologies are monetised in practice, we can generate a better understanding of the risks, both economic and technological, nurtured by a market’s structure. But how much greater are the risks for the next generation of AI systems?

Social Media 88

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 88

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS. Historically, messaging has been an important building block for building highly reliable distributed systems. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 08 November 2012 03:00 PM. Comments ().

Efficiency 107

Efficiency Cloud Games Scalability 107

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Digital experience monitoring enables companies to respond to issues more efficiently in real time, and, through enrichment with the right business data, understand how end-user experience of their digital products significantly affects business key performance indicators (KPIs). Endpoint monitoring (EM).

Monitoring 209

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 209

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. To keep operations efficient and cost-effective, it’s important to be able to quickly respond to issues as they occur and efficiently verify their resolution. Walgreens has more than 9,000, and McDonald’s has more than 14,000 in the U.S.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. To keep operations efficient and cost-effective, it’s important to be able to quickly respond to issues as they occur and efficiently verify their resolution. Walgreens has more than 9,000, and McDonald’s has more than 14,000 in the U.S.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. To keep operations efficient and cost-effective, it’s important to be able to quickly respond to issues as they occur and efficiently verify their resolution. Walgreens has more than 9,000, and McDonald’s has more than 14,000 in the U.S.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

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. With the new BI system the company is able to run analytics across 140 stories per day, in real time, and increase their agility for completing analytics tasks from months to days.

Analytics 136

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 136

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Visionaries are hoping to leverage blockchains to provide a secure, universal data sharing infrastructure that can help solve decades-long problems endemic to the health care system. More than 100 companies are involved with IBM’s Food Trust network, including many consumer packaged goods companies and grocery retailers. Advertising.

Blockchain 63

Blockchain Retail Innovation Healthcare 63

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

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

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

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. Signup Now.

Testing 57

Testing Testing Tools Automotive Scalability 57

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. Comments ().

AWS 106

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 106

O'Reilly Software

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

By encapsulating tasks into separate services, parts of an application can be developed independently, deployed efficiently as containers, and scaled out automatically with new instances as traffic grows. For instance, the verbs on a retail site might include browsing, adding to a shopping cart, buying, and rating. The design stage.

Development 69

Development Retail Traffic Virtualization 69

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

However, it imposes the burden that everyone participates in a common tracing system and consistently makes the effort to log interactions. Many large companies have tens of thousands of employees and need to perform fast, efficient contact tracing. Enabling Technology: In-Memory Computing.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

However, it imposes the burden that everyone participates in a common tracing system and consistently makes the effort to log interactions. Many large companies have tens of thousands of employees and need to perform fast, efficient contact tracing. Enabling Technology: In-Memory Computing.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

However, it imposes the burden that everyone participates in a common tracing system and consistently makes the effort to log interactions. Many large companies have tens of thousands of employees and need to perform fast, efficient contact tracing. Enabling Technology: In-Memory Computing.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

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

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

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.

Traffic 197

Traffic Strategy Retail Ecommerce 197

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Cost-Efficient And Effort-Saving Development. Alibaba is one of the e-commerce giants that have “run the gamut” from a regular online retail store to a native application (created for mobile shopping purposes) and then on to a PWA.

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

Testlodge

MARCH 21, 2018

This access to clearer, low-jargon communication is probably the biggest advantage to using BDD, making it possible for collaboration between the technical and non-technical teams to run with improved efficiency. For example, test cases can be written using real-time examples of the actual requirements, to explain the behavior of the system.

Development 59

Development Retail Testing Software 59

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Some of the benefits organizations seek from digital transformation journeys include the following: Increased DevOps automation and efficiency. Digital tools and technologies provide a more efficient way of doing things. It often involves replacing legacy systems and workflows that have been in place for years or even decades.

Strategy 179

Strategy Retail DevOps Education 179

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Machine learning: a feature of AI that provides computer systems with the ability to automatically learn and improve from previous experience without being explicitly programmed. Supply chain management consists of many people, including suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and customers.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Programming Logistics 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Expanding customer value while reducing costs Further, the retail financial services landscape is increasingly competitive. Doing so will require increasing customer lifetime value (CLV) by expanding existing customers’ wallet share while optimizing efficiencies to reduce waste. Yet resources remain scarce.

FinTech 198

FinTech Innovation Strategy Retail 198

O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

OpenAI’s text generating system GPT-3 has captured mainstream attention. The valuation of crypto today is consequential to financial markets and the net worth of retail and institutional investors. Language models like GPT-3 can be the weapon of choice for actors who want to promote fake tweets to manipulate the price of crypto.

Social Media 138

Social Media Media Internet Internet 138

Dynatrace

JUNE 30, 2020

With any cloud technology, managing cost efficiency is critical. Some of these patterns can be planned for , such as peak seasons for travel and retail industries, while others are entirely spontaneous to the business. How many users are active in the system at various times in the day?

Retail 218

Retail Cloud Metrics Efficiency 218

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

The MPP system leverages a shared-nothing architecture to handle multiple operations in parallel. Typically an MPP system has one leader node and one or many compute nodes. This allows Greenplum to distribute the load between their different segments and use all of the system’s resources parallely to process a query.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

The Agile Manager

MAY 13, 2011

Some to create efficiency. Office suites and operating systems with GUIs were once the "killer apps" for personal computers, but they've become utilities, like water, electricity or retail banking. This makes clear three very important lessons in tech investing, be it developing custom software or acquiring a technology firm.

Social Media 40

Social Media Retail Google Media 40

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Big companies] create all these systems and processes - and then end up with a very small percentage of people who are supposed to solve complex problems, while the other 98% of people just execute." Microcomputers improved the efficiency of data collection and made it easy to consolidate operational data.

Education 45

Education Best Practices Retail Network 45

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Retail: $20 trillion. This makes it easy to reason about complex distributed system. Once inside the function, there's nothing wrong with multi-threading to do the work as efficiently as possible. Matthew Dillon : This is *very* impressive efficiency. This is *very* impressive efficiency. Cars: $1 trillion.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

Containers and Microservices: R evolution in the architecture of distributed systems . ? refers to cloud-based, containerized, distributed systems, made up of cooperating microservices, dynamically managed by automated infrastructure as code. . ? How do you make this system resilient and fault-tolerant? Cloud-native?

Google 132

Google Ecommerce DevOps Cloud 132

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

Containers and Microservices: R evolution in the architecture of distributed systems . ? refers to cloud-based, containerized, distributed systems, made up of cooperating microservices, dynamically managed by automated infrastructure as code. . ? How do you make this system resilient and fault-tolerant? Cloud-native?

Google 130

Google Ecommerce DevOps Cloud 130

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.

Monitoring 184

Monitoring Latency Mobile Best Practices 184

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. The systemic fragility was as plain as day.

Transportation 52

Transportation Retail Traffic Efficiency 52

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

meme originated in IT’s transformation from manual system administration to automated configuration management and software deployment. We could see it as an example of 1980s-style “ expert systems ,” based on deterministic business rules. The data available to our retail business is much more limited. We’ll see it in banking.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Build evolvable systems. But we couldn’t adopt the old style approach of upgrading systems through a maintenance outage, as many businesses around the world are relying on our platform for 24/7 availability. We needed to build systems that embrace failure as a natural occurrence even if we did not know what the failure might be.

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

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

cameras) in many usages ranging from digital security/surveillance and automated retail (e.g. Each of these categories opens up challenging problems in AI/visual algorithms, high-density computing, bandwidth/latency, distributed systems. Such models for immersive content generation leads to research in novel system architectures.

Wireless 54

Wireless IoT Analytics Architecture 54

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.

Cache 131

Cache Cloud Performance Retail 131