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The keys to helping retailers with Black Friday preparation for exceptional customer experiences

Dynatrace

For retailers, the countdown to the holidays has begun, even if it’s still six months away. Black Friday preparation is the culmination of retailers’ efforts to attract and sustain customer relationships during the holiday season and beyond. These loads potentially expose the weakest points in an organization’s digital infrastructure.

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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. For organizations running their own on-premises infrastructure, these costs can be prohibitive. With so many variables in modern application delivery, organizations need an always-on infrastructure to deliver continuous system availability, even under peak loads.

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Event-Based Autoscaling: Ensuring Smooth Operations on Your Peak Days

DZone

Think about retailers gearing up for Black Friday, sports betting companies preparing for specific games, or marketing teams orchestrating major campaigns. These organizations face a common challenge – how much infrastructure do they need to ensure optimal performance without overprovisioning – which can become very costly, very quickly.

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The Agile Architect: Mastering Architectural Observability To Slay Technical Debt

DZone

It's a story as old as ( UNIX ) time — in scene one, we meet an international online retailer whose software infrastructure is based on a sprawling monolithic application.

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Causal AI use cases for modern observability that can transform any business

Dynatrace

Retailers can analyze how factors such as demand, competition, and market trends affect pricing. The logs, metrics, traces, and other metadata that applications and infrastructure generate have historically been captured in separate data stores, creating poorly integrated data silos.

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Black Friday traffic exposes gaps in observability strategies

Dynatrace

If the mantra in sales is “Always be closing,” the mantra for online retail storefronts is “Always be online.”. Peak loads can overload and crash retailer websites and derail customer interactions. Customer experience has become paramount for retailers, as visitors demand instant responses — especially during times of high volume.

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How multicloud observability boosts cloud performance at Tractor Supply Co.

Dynatrace

According to the Dynatrace “2022 Global CIO Report,” 79% of large organizations use multicloud infrastructure. Moreover, organizations have to balance maintaining security, retaining cloud management expertise, and managing infrastructure performance. Rural lifestyle retail giant Tractor Supply Co.

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