IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Whether it's an e-commerce platform, a banking system, or a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider, downtime can result in lost sales, dissatisfied consumers, and financial losses.As one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

We worked in different industries before joining Netflix, including tech, entertainment, retail, science policy, and research. Coding with statistical software and SQL are my most widely used technical skills. New initiatives and strategy bets are captured in memos for anyone in the company to read and engage in discourse.

Analytics 207

Analytics C++ Innovation Engineering 207

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

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Patrick is a London-based software developer who specializes in web performance and who describes himself as enjoying “working the entire stack, back-end to front-end, CDN to server.” Rick Byers.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Mark Fontecchio : we find that more companies are turning to HR software and the data it contains for strategic insights. 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.

Internet 188

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 188

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

O’Reilly Learning > We wanted to discover what our readers were doing with cloud, microservices, and other critical infrastructure and operations technologies. Software engineers represent the largest cohort, comprising almost 20% of all respondents (see Figure 1 ). All told, we received 1,283 responses.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

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. Michael Porter argued in Competitive Strategy that vertical integration enabled cost leadership, which was more likely to win market share than a strategy of differentiation.

Retail 40

Retail Strategy Technology Technology 40

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

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

And even with error rates as low as 1%, we’re easily talking about thousands of errors sprinkled randomly through software, press releases, hiring decisions, catalog entries—everything AI touches. Many other kinds of business partners will be affected by the use of AI: suppliers, wholesalers, retailers, contractors of many types.

Education 72

Education Healthcare Media Systems 72