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 136

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 136

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 Retail Architecture 46

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

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 Automotive Retail Innovation 85

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.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Retail Ecommerce Infrastructure 40

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. Don't assume hardware and networks will mitigate page bloat. In other words, images comprised almost 75% of the total page weight. More on that later.).

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. Don't assume hardware and networks will mitigate page bloat Increased page size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. More on that later.)

Google 52

Google Mobile Retail Metrics 52

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

When Tom Tom launched the LBS platform they wanted the ability to reach millions of developers all around the world without having them invest a lot of capital upfront in hardware and building expensive data centers so turned to the cloud.

Cloud 130

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 130

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2020

It isn't difficult to imagine the DIY retailers lobbying congress to create legislation that allows employees to set aside up to x-thousand-dollars of annual income as tax exempt for use on home improvement.

Airlines 52

Airlines Government Hardware Technology 52

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

When even a bit of React can be a problem on devices slow and fast alike, using it is an intentional choice that effectively excludes people with low-end hardware. I believe this range of mobile hardware will be illustrative of performance across a broad spectrum of device capabilities, even if it’s slightly heavy on the Apple side.

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

In the years leading up to 2000, there was aggressive spend on technology: insulation against fears of the Y2K bug (legacy software and hardware with time functions that wouldn't properly roll over to 01/01/2000) as well as development of new business and consumer technology to exploit what was then nascent internet technology.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

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

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. When customers left the constraining, old world of IT hardware and datacenters behind, they started to develop systems with new and interesting usage patterns that no one had ever seen before. Primitives not frameworks. APIs are forever.

AWS 147

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 147

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Andrew Ng , Christopher Ré , and others have pointed out that in the past decade, we’ve made a lot of progress with algorithms and hardware for running AI. Our current set of AI algorithms are good enough, as is our hardware; the hard problems are all about data. The data available to our retail business is much more limited.

Games 115

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 115

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

With this fast and accurate API, retail businesses can respond to their customers online or in store immediately by delivering targeted ads. For companies that have successfully built a pipeline for image analysis, the processes of maintaining, improving, and keeping up with the research in this space proves to be high friction.

AWS 166

AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Mobile 166

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

retailers) and asset-heavy finance companies (e.g., But we also know that a lot of firms still license captive ERP systems (no SaaS), operate captive data centers (no Cloud), and issue hardware to employees (no BYOD). We know that this echoes the supercycle of businesses separating into asset-light operating companies (e.g.,

Cloud 40

Cloud Retail Hardware Software 40