All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Looking back over the past 10 years, there are hundreds of lessons that we’ve learned about building and operating services that need to be secure, reliable, scalable, with predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

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. In the past analytics within an organization was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralized data warehouse running on specialized hardware. Cloud enables self-service analytics.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

If you've been working in the performance space for a while and you hear me start to talk about page growth, I'd forgive you if you started running away. ;). HTML – Typically the smallest resource on the page, HTML's performance risk is usually negligible. More stylesheets equal more risk of performance degradation.

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

HTML – Typically the smallest resource on the page, HTML's performance risk is usually negligible. And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. In other words, images comprised almost 75% of the total page weight. More on that later.)

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” Office staff usually perform tasks like invoice processing by filling in a web form. Should it be? What’s required? That’s the bad news.

Games 114

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 114

VoltDB

JUNE 19, 2017

With the 5G revolution, operators will need to manage hundreds of edge deployments, and maintain the physical space and hardware to achieve 1ms of latency. Successful implementation of a VR service could have massive implications for a number of industries, such as retail. This requires 1 ms network latency.

Latency 40

Latency Retail Virtualization Hardware 40

VoltDB

JUNE 19, 2017

With the 5G revolution, operators will need to manage hundreds of edge deployments, and maintain the physical space and hardware to achieve 1ms of latency. Successful implementation of a VR service could have massive implications for a number of industries, such as retail. This requires 1 ms network latency.

Latency 40

Latency Retail Virtualization Hardware 40

Rigor

MARCH 20, 2018

I recently was asked the following question by an online retailer: “Why should I invest in monitoring the user experience when I already have monitoring for our database, infrastructure, app server, and network?”. Or are you an eCommerce retailer?” They quickly understood my point. Need for Alignment Between IT and Business KPIs.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Retail Ecommerce Infrastructure 40

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

In the 1970s, the predominant business strategy was vertical integration: own the value chain from raw materials to retail outlets. Companies reduced their labor expense, and the hardware and software they acquired appeared on the balance sheet as capital investments in the business. The research of the time supported this.

Retail 40

Retail Strategy Technology Technology 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Amazon Rekognition democratizes the application of deep learning technique for detecting objects, scenes, concepts, and faces in your images, comparing faces between two images, and performing search functionality across millions of facial feature vectors that your business can store with Amazon Rekognition.

AWS 165

AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Mobile 165

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

This has changed: the US recovery has been inconsistent, emerging markets are performing poorly and the US dollar is strong (taking the edge off overseas revenue). retailers) and asset-heavy finance companies (e.g., For as much as we made Agile perform better than Waterfall under capitalization policies (e.g.,

Cloud 40

Cloud Retail Hardware Software 40

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. Taking into account the previous considerations, performance requirements were set as 1000 faceted navigation requests/second per typical hardware blade. Data capacity of the system is not less than 1 million products.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

Of course, in the midst of a crisis, there are no models that forecast economic performance to any useful degree of certainty. retail square footage doesn't look like a good investment) to organizational dynamics (office square footage doesn't look like a good investment).

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52