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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

The report also reveals the leading programming languages practitioners use for application workloads. are the top 3 programming languages for Kubernetes application workloads. Messaging : RabbitMQ and Kafka are the two main messaging and event streaming systems used. are the top Kubernetes programming languages.

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Pioneering customer-centric pricing models: Decoding ingest-centric vs. answer-centric pricing

Dynatrace

retail giant, initially tied to an ingest-centric pricing vendor, found itself manually curbing costs by limiting daily log ingestion to 3 TB and reducing retention periods. Consequently, the company’s mean time to identify (MTTI) and mean time to resolve (MTTR) during peak retail seasons was too slow. A prominent U.S.

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Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

Dynatrace

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. The nightmare scenario for online retailers during peak periods, such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday, is a system crash. Include metrics, event logs, distributed traces, metadata, user experience data, and telemetry data from open source technologies and cloud platforms.

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RSA Guide 2023: Cloud application security remains core challenge for organizations

Dynatrace

The focus on bringing various organizational teams together—such as development, business, and security teams — makes sense as observability data, security data, and business event data coalesce in these cloud-native environments. As digital transformation escalates, vulnerabilities are increasing as well, by more than 290% since 2016.

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The Next Generation in Logistics Tracking with Real-Time Digital Twins

ScaleOut Software

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. It’s not enough just to pick out interesting events from an aggregated data stream and then send them to a database for offline analysis using Spark. Walgreens has more than 9,000, and McDonald’s has more than 14,000 in the U.S.