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. Jake Archibald.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Choose your monitoring strategy (i.e., Let’s take the example of a globally distributed retailer that collects revenue measurements every minute for all its shops worldwide. Here, too, you can select a threshold ( Monitoring strategy ) and provide a name and description for the alert.

Metrics 244

Metrics Analytics Storage Monitoring 244

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. For example, when our retail customers contributed to create larger economies of scale for Amazon.com, we used the savings to lower pricing such that our customers could also benefit. APAC Summer Tour.

AWS 104

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

Enabling Technology: In-Memory Computing. Many large companies have tens of thousands of employees and need to perform fast, efficient contact tracing. In-memory computing technology can aggregate this data and visually present the results to help immediately spot outbreaks and identify significant problem areas.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

Enabling Technology: In-Memory Computing. Many large companies have tens of thousands of employees and need to perform fast, efficient contact tracing. In-memory computing technology can aggregate this data and visually present the results to help immediately spot outbreaks and identify significant problem areas.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

Enabling Technology: In-Memory Computing. Many large companies have tens of thousands of employees and need to perform fast, efficient contact tracing. In-memory computing technology can aggregate this data and visually present the results to help immediately spot outbreaks and identify significant problem areas.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

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). Performance metrics: Shift from financial results to addressing unmet needs. Strategy: Shift from static to dynamic.

Innovation 104

Innovation Scalability Efficiency Mobile 104

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. Numerous big players have considered such an opinion and have recently implemented this technology. Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Large preview ).

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2019

But the performance was never all that impressive. There was a market, but no obvious winning strategy. Orders duplicated across multiple intermediaries meant that even the smartest algorithms and the fastest technology would provide only a fleeting edge as competitors would quickly catch up.

FinTech 40

FinTech Strategy Retail Innovation 40

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Banking customers now expect digital experiences on par with those delivered by leading e-commerce and technology companies, and emerging financial technology (fintech) companies are racing to provide these kinds of experiences. So are established competitors, which are investing in platform plays to boost market share.

FinTech 189

FinTech Innovation Strategy Retail 189

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

Of course, in the midst of a crisis, there are no models that forecast economic performance to any useful degree of certainty. Meanwhile, the emergence of internet technology had availed a skilled global workforce to deep-pocketed corporate IT buyers in Europe and the United States. Social media was just coming into its own.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 27, 2022

The continued growth of e-commerce has led to digital transformation moving at unprecedented speeds, as retailers compete for the attention of over 2.1 But as online stores have expanded, they’ve become more complex, and so has the technology underpinning them. billion online shoppers. The rise of cloud complexity.

Retail 217

Retail Cloud Speed Strategy 217

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Each is a new take on an old theme, echoing one part of the contradiction that has riddled every business with a captive technology department: we want to minimize how much we spend on IT, and we want IT to be a source of innovation. Personal technology such as spreadsheets and smartphones empowers increasingly tech-savvy knowledge workers.

Ecommerce 45

Ecommerce Social Media Retail Airlines 45

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. They're the information technology equivalent of electricity or tap water. These utilities don't provide return in and of themselves.

Retail 45

Retail Technology Technology Small Business 45

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In an age where mainly all services that businesses provide their customers run on computing technology, it is crucial that companies understand the importance of providing reliable access to their systems.In What is 5 Nines Availability?In determining a business's value to its clients, the level of service it provides is often a key metric.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In an age where mainly all services that businesses provide their customers run on computing technology, it is crucial that companies understand the importance of providing reliable access to their systems.In What is 5 Nines Availability?In determining a business's value to its clients, the level of service it provides is often a key metric.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” Office staff usually perform tasks like invoice processing by filling in a web form. Should it be? What’s required? That’s the bad news.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. " Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

In particular, they cite the lack of breakthrough technologies - e.g, Algorithms are cheaper than humans and can be networked to perform complex collections of tasks at a speed, and subsequently a scale, that humans cannot achieve. By traditional economic measures, things do not appear to be getting much better.

Energy 52

Energy Government Entertainment Innovation 52

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2016

As far back as the 19th century, industrial firms pursued vertical integration strategies. The thinking was that by owning the supply chain from raw materials to retail outlets, a firm had direct control over its entire cost structure, making it better able to squeeze efficiencies out of it and being less susceptible to supply shocks.

Blockchain 40

Blockchain Retail Social Media Airlines 40

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

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. We imagine that companies in the software industry are more likely to be early (or mid-stage) adopters of technologies like cloud computing. 10,000 or more employees.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

If you have been paying attention to the technology press over the past 12-18 months, you may have noticed a rather large number of negative stories about Intel's processor business. This created a predictable release cadence, and also delivered significant performance gains and other improvements with each release, especially Tock releases.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46