O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

These algorithms save everyone time and money: by helping users navigate through thousands of products to find the ones with the highest quality and the lowest price, and by expanding the market reach of suppliers through Amazon’s delivery infrastructure and immense customer network. Disclosure is another powerful market-shaping tool.

Social Media 88

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 88

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. The Rise of Cloud Computing. Conclusion.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Retail Ecommerce Infrastructure 40

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

According to 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise: Data & Analytics, 28% of businesses run analytics on their employee behavior data, roughly the same number that analyze IT infrastructure data. Retail investors have to put their money somewhere. They'll learn a lot and love you forever. Are there more quotes?

Internet 188

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 188

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

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Author of the Pocket Guide to Web Performance and co-author of Using WebPageTest , Andy is an independent web performance consultant in the UK who has helped many leading retailers, newspapers and financial companies make their sites faster. He is a co-organizer of the London Web Performance meetup. Barry Pollard. Barry Pollard.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. Today, DynamoDB powers the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications that would overburden traditional relational databases.

Internet 130

Internet Internet AWS Performance 130