O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

These algorithms save everyone time and money: by helping users navigate through thousands of products to find the ones with the highest quality and the lowest price, and by expanding the market reach of suppliers through Amazon’s delivery infrastructure and immense customer network. Disclosure is another powerful market-shaping tool.

Social Media 88

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 88

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. And we need to have strategies in place to understand and manage our pages. Don't assume hardware and networks will mitigate page bloat.

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

For more than ten years, I've been writing about page bloat, its impact on site speed, and ultimately how it affects your users and your business. And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. More on that later.) How quickly do they show up?

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

VoltDB

JUNE 19, 2017

While current network speeds may be enough to meet the latency requirements of 4G applications, 5G will necessitate a change, if only because the continental US is ~60ms wide, meaning that a datacenter on one coast communicating with another datacenter on the opposite coast will be too slow for 5G. This requires 1 ms network latency.

Latency 40

Latency Retail Virtualization Hardware 40

VoltDB

JUNE 19, 2017

While current network speeds may be enough to meet the latency requirements of 4G applications, 5G will necessitate a change, if only because the continental US is ~60ms wide, meaning that a datacenter on one coast communicating with another datacenter on the opposite coast will be too slow for 5G. This requires 1 ms network latency.

Latency 40

Latency Retail Virtualization Hardware 40

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

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. This also implies that you don’t have to spend additional time and money on creating a PWA to suit various devices, greatly speeding up time-to-market. This primarily regards its UXUI and speed, so a progressive web app can be a solution to consider.

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74