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. In support of Amazon Prime Day 2017, the biggest day in Amazon retail history, DynamoDB served over 12.9 million requests per second.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Apica

OCTOBER 17, 2022

For the purpose of this series, we’re talking about digital user journeys, which flow through software and infrastructure rather than through people in the field or at service desks. Indeed, there was a time when applications were vertical stacks of software atop networks and servers wholly owned by the company.

Retail 52

Retail Website Infrastructure Software Architecture 52

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?”. Instead of asking that question, I asked them this: “Are you a network or hosting provider?

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Retail Ecommerce Infrastructure 40

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Since you now have lots of choices to address your high performance database needs, I decided to write this blog to help you select the most appropriate services for your workload using lessons I have learnt by scaling the infrastructure for Amazon.com. To address this, we are adding support for a new memory-optimized instance to Amazon RDS.

Cache 129

Cache Cloud Performance Retail 129

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

cameras) in many usages ranging from digital security/surveillance and automated retail (e.g. Orchestrate the processing flow across an end-to-end infrastructure. Last but not least, the ability to auto-generate optimal neural networks (e.g. interactive AR/VR, gaming and critical decision making).

Wireless 54

Wireless IoT Analytics Architecture 54

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

Even if you render components on the server and hydrate them on the client, it still churns because component hydration is computationally expensive. Server rendering is also cool—even if that’s just how we say “send HTML over the network” these days. A stateful Preact component, also server-rendered and hydrated on the client.

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

The Morning Paper

JUNE 18, 2019

Control loop SLOs express the active management actions a provider will take, e.g. shedding of low-priority load will occur on over-utilised network links. As a simple example, an SLO around network throughput might rely on the customer running software capable of driving the network fast enough. Why are SLOs so hard to define?

Metrics 79

Metrics Cloud Google Network 79

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. The future of HTTP/2 server push. MDN (Mozilla Developers Network) @MozDevNet.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

The Agile Manager

JULY 9, 2010

Retail banking serves largely a utilitarian purpose in an economy. This includes things like data storage, servers, e-mail, office productivity applications, virus protection, security and so forth. Nor is the common division of IT into "infrastructure" and "application development" the dividing line between utility and value-add.

Retail 45

Retail Technology Technology Small Business 45