Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

FinOps is a cloud financial management philosophy and practice that strives to control the cost of cloud adoption strategies without restricting the scope of cloud resources. Today, many global industries implement FinOps, including telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, and energy conservation, as well as most Fortune 50 companies.

Cloud 195

Cloud Strategy Retail Energy 195

Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

While most government agencies and commercial enterprises have digital services in place, the current volume of usage — including traffic to critical employment, health and retail/eCommerce services — has reached levels that many organizations have never seen before or tested against. There are proven strategies for handling this.

Traffic 206

Traffic Ecommerce Retail Government 206

Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

Observability is critical for monitoring application performance, infrastructure, and user behavior within hybrid, microservices-based environments. This includes collecting metrics, logs, and traces from all applications and infrastructure components. Learn how to automate DevSecOps at scale.

Cloud 186

Cloud DevOps Open Source Retail 186

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

As e-commerce experiences become more sophisticated and we all rely on them more and more, observability for e-commerce applications and the clouds they run on has become more critical than ever to retailers’ success. First, he pointed to the infrastructure monitoring capabilities as critical to understanding the impact of hardware failures.

Retail 241

Retail Cloud Monitoring Hardware 241

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. By investing in robust infrastructure and implementing a multi-CDN strategy, Netflix ensures the high availability of its streaming service across various devices and regions.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. By investing in robust infrastructure and implementing a multi-CDN strategy, Netflix ensures the high availability of its streaming service across various devices and regions.

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. New initiatives and strategy bets are captured in memos for anyone in the company to read and engage in discourse. Each company has their own spin on data scientist responsibilities.

Analytics 207

Analytics Innovation C++ Engineering 207

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

Edge Perspectives

JANUARY 21, 2019

Let me start by clarifying that the transformation I’m focused on isn’t the transformation involved in moving from one business to another (let’s say, moving from being a retailer to becoming a clothing manufacturer). Strategy: Shift from static to dynamic. Corporate focus: Shift from bundle to one business type.

Innovation 104

Innovation Scalability Efficiency Mobile 104

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

While tech firms are not necessarily profiting wildly - usage of advertising-subsidized services is up but their advertising revenues are down, and there are more users of video conference software than there are paying licensees - usage of technology services, particularly collaboration infrastructure, has skyrocketed.

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

The Agile Manager

JULY 9, 2010

Retail banking serves largely a utilitarian purpose in an economy. They trade their client's capital as well as their own using complex strategies specifically to generate high yield. 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

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.

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. Most (90%+) respondent organizations expect to increase their usage of cloud-based infrastructure. All told, we received 1,283 responses. Amazon and AWS Ascendant.

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 130

Internet Internet AWS Performance 130

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In a winner-take-all economy where a company’s highest-paid employees can earn over 1000 times as much as the lowest paid, the absence of a commitment to employees leads to poor housing, poor school systems, poor infrastructure, and marginalized local businesses. We agree with that statement, as far as it goes.

Education 72

Education Healthcare Media Systems 72