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2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail and e-commerce IT performance observations

Dynatrace

Over the years, I have watched and written about online retail and e-commerce IT performance. What I have seen is a maturing of the online retail channels when it comes to delivering customer experiences. This year we saw few, if any, major issues with online retailers. This is where many retailers have matured over the years.

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Customer expectations for retail: Beyond digital experience

Dynatrace

This is typically the first thing that comes to mind for IT professionals working in the retail industry when evaluating holiday readiness. While digital experience has many facets, transaction speed usually ranks among the most important. From first to lasting impressions But there’s more to digital experience than speed.

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2022 in review: New dashboards, Core Web Vitals enhancements, third-party tracking & more!

Speed Curve

Jumped into in-person events, and were so happy to catch up with some of you at SmashingConf and performance.now() (You can watch videos of my talk about performance budgets and Andy Davies' talk about third parties.). Evaluate CDN performance by exploring the impact of time-of-day traffic patterns. Expanded Industry Speed Benchmarks.

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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

All Things Distributed

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. A business unit can now go out and create their own data warehouse in the cloud of a size and speed that exactly matches what they need and are willing to pay for.

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The Ever Given is Not a Black Swan Event

The Agile Manager

Some have incorrectly referred to the incident and the aftermath as a “black swan” event. The disruption is not simply the result of a ship running aground and blocking traffic in a busy, narrow passageway. But the disruption to supply chains created by the beaching of the Ever Given is not a black swan event.

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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. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. Instead, to speed up response times, applications are now processing most data at the network’s perimeter, closest to the data’s origin.

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Scaling Amazon ElastiCache for Redis with Online Cluster Resizing

All Things Distributed

Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retailspeed wins, it's simple. As the use cases for Redis continue to grow, customers have demanded more flexibility in scaling their workloads dynamically, while continuing to be highly available and serving incoming traffic.

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