All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling.

Analytics 136

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 136

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Our latest innovation for detecting anomalies in metrics, topology-aware Davis-AI auto-adaptive baselining, is unique in that it adapts to changing metric behavior over time, thereby helping you to avoid false-positive alerts. This is exactly what Dynatrace now delivers. Choose your monitoring strategy (i.e.,

Metrics 245

Metrics Analytics Storage Monitoring 245

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

And these talents are by no means coveted only by companies that always had a digital business model to begin with; suppliers to the automotive industry, financial services companies, and retailers also, urgently need product managers, and technical staff who can quickly make their organizations digitally attractive to their customers.

Social Media 85

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 85

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Shell''s scientists, especially the geophysicists and drilling engineers, frequently use cloud computing to run models. By offloading the task of managing infrastructure to AWS Essent is able to spend more time on innovating on behalf of their customers to help them in their energy usage.

Cloud 130

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 130

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

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rick Byers. Rick Byers. Sergey Chernyshev.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

Regardless how bad it gets, there is a candle of hope perpetually burning in the expectation is that free human societies are resilient and will respond and innovate in the face of challenge and will ultimately be more productive and more effective on the other side. Is the investment opportunity dependent on full-stack engineers?

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e. One thing stand-out to me is being intentional and practical about your engineering organisation design. Let's take an example of retail as a domain of interest. And there lies the problem.

Engineering 61

Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

There are plenty of examples - music publishing, mass-market retailing, local transportation - where new entrants have left a wake of creative destruction in their path. R&D isn't cheap: there is far more demand for engineering labor than there are engineers to be hired. But even Amazon is showing signs of innovation fatigue.

Innovation 40

Innovation Retail Blockchain Transportation 40

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

While AI has been used for a while now, recent enhancement has made the technology much more innovative and adaptable. Supply chain management consists of many people, including suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and customers. There are many business processes that can be optimized using artificial intelligence (AI).

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Programming Logistics 52

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

For that very reason, IT leadership often defaults to throwing more engineers at any problem. As a result, many teams have 18 developers and only one QA,” said Heather Munoz, Head of the Retail Brokerage Practice at E*Trade, on a recent podcast interview. . That’s virtually impossible without real-time systems data and analytics. .

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Marvin Theimer, Amazon Distinguished Engineer, once jokingly said that the evolution of Amazon S3 could best be described as starting off as a single engine Cessna plane, but over time the plane was upgraded to a 737, then a group of 747s, all the way to the large fleet of Airbus 380s that it is now. APIs are forever.

AWS 147

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 147

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. At Amazon, we have always focused on innovating on behalf of the customer.

Games 113

Games Retail Latency Education 113

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

For that very reason, IT leadership often defaults to throwing more engineers at any problem. As a result, many teams have 18 developers and only one QA,” said Heather Munoz, Head of the Retail Brokerage Practice at E*Trade, on a recent podcast interview. . That’s virtually impossible without real-time systems data and analytics. .

Healthcare 40

Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation 40

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

cameras) in many usages ranging from digital security/surveillance and automated retail (e.g. Such innovation in AI algorithms and approaches results in an increase in model size, exponential growth in the compute needs, caching of temporal states, and multiple models to run simultaneously. He received his Ph.D. He received his Ph.D.

Wireless 54

Wireless IoT Analytics Architecture 54

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2016

The thinking was that by owning the supply chain from raw materials to retail outlets, a firm had direct control over its entire cost structure, making it better able to squeeze efficiencies out of it and being less susceptible to supply shocks. As far back as the 19th century, industrial firms pursued vertical integration strategies.

Blockchain 40

Blockchain Retail Social Media Airlines 40

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Today, we are releasing a plugin that allows customers to use the Titan graph engine with Amazon DynamoDB as the backend storage layer. In supply chain management, connections between airports, warehouses, and retail aisles are critical for cost and time optimization. The importance of relationships. Graph databases at Amazon.

Database 134

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 130

Internet Internet AWS Performance 130

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Suffice it to say that if your job title includes the word “clerk,” things might not look good—but your prospects are looking up if your job title includes the word “engineer” or “analyst.” Innovation in any technology, including training, entails risk. Is a recommendation engine recommending appropriate products?

Education 73

Education Healthcare Media Systems 73

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

However, we also knew that building a distributed database that has unlimited scale and maintains predictably high performance while providing rich and flexible query capabilities, is one of the hardest problems in database development, and will take a lot of effort and invention from our team of distributed database engineers to solve.

Games 130

Games Scalability Database Retail 130

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2014

For example, a retailer contracts with a consulting firm to develop custom software, but the retail firm assumes responsibility for the maintenance and evolution of the asset once delivered. The consulting firm's intermediation doesn't change this fact, it simply changes the economic relationships.

Software 49

Software Software Development Retail 49

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Around 20 years ago, we used machine learning in our recommendation engine to generate personalized recommendations for our customers. The same conversational engine that powers Alexa is now available to any developer, making it easy to bring sophisticated, natural language 'chatbots' to new and existing applications.

AWS 166

AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Mobile 166

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2015

Suppose that the operating company is in a firefight for market share, where the primary weapons are customer-facing technology (as is happening in retail, entertainment, and, to a lesser extent, airlines - all of which have capital intensive asset-cos side-by-side with cash generative op-cos.).

Airlines 40

Airlines Entertainment Retail Efficiency 40