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. Performance improvement: Shift from process to practice.

Innovation 104

Innovation Scalability Efficiency Mobile 104

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

Our experimentation and causal inference focused data scientists help shape business decisions, product innovations, and engineering improvements across our service. We worked in different industries before joining Netflix, including tech, entertainment, retail, science policy, and research. Roxy Du (Product Innovation) [Roxy D.]

Analytics 207

Analytics C++ Innovation Engineering 207

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Topology metrics are related to specific entities in your Smartscape topology (for example, the number of successful and failed batch jobs processed by a host). Non-topology metrics are not related to any Smartscape entity (for example, a retailer’s revenue numbers per store). Choose your monitoring strategy (i.e.,

Metrics 245

Metrics Analytics Storage Monitoring 245

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

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. It’s no longer a one-day event. Increasingly, consumers want an omnichannel experience.

Retail 169

Retail Infrastructure Innovation Strategy 169

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Digital transformation strategies are fundamentally changing how organizations operate and deliver value to customers. A comprehensive digital transformation strategy can help organizations better understand the market, reach customers more effectively, and respond to changing demand more quickly. Competitive advantage.

Strategy 177

Strategy Retail DevOps Education 177

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

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.

Traffic 193

Traffic Strategy Retail Ecommerce 193

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

And these talents are by no means coveted only by companies that always had a digital business model to begin with; suppliers to the automotive industry, financial services companies, and retailers also, urgently need product managers, and technical staff who can quickly make their organizations digitally attractive to their customers.

Social Media 85

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 85

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Executives and decision makers can now better see the promise blockchain holds to improve business processes and facilitate creating innovative products, and, in some cases, entirely new markets. To achieve this, businesses have built up complex processes of checks and balances. Enterprise momentum builds for blockchain.

Blockchain 69

Blockchain IoT Logistics Internet 69

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2019

process the reorder too early or not at all and doctors don't replenish their sample stock in a timely fashion), and the doctors will sign up with another intermediary. The first intermediary to process the reorder successfully won the business that day. There was a market, but no obvious winning strategy.

FinTech 40

FinTech Strategy Retail Innovation 40

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Expanding customer value while reducing costs Further, the retail financial services landscape is increasingly competitive. Winning the loyalty of these increasingly fickle customers requires the right investments—in personalization, customer service, developing innovative products, and bringing them to market faster.

FinTech 195

FinTech Innovation Strategy Retail 195

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Maximiliano Firtman. Maximiliano Firtman.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

So, in essence, it’s a way to automate the tedious process of hitting ‘copy’ and then ‘paste’ 200 times. Being the largest online retailer on the planet, it’s safe to say that if you want to buy something, you can probably get it on Amazon. They are slightly different, but in the end, the process is pretty similar.

Website 115

Website Code Retail Best Practices 115

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

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 130

Internet Internet AWS Performance 130

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This process is often called “critical thinking,” but it goes a lot deeper: it requires scrutinizing every fact and every logical inference, even the most self-evident and obvious. Innovation in any technology, including training, entails risk. We agree with that statement, as far as it goes.

Education 73

Education Healthcare Media Systems 73

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). Intel officially moved on to what they call " Process- Architecture-Optimization (PAO) " in early 2016.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46