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2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail and e-commerce IT performance observations

Dynatrace

Over the years, I have watched and written about online retail and e-commerce IT performance. What I have seen is a maturing of the online retail channels when it comes to delivering customer experiences. This year we saw few, if any, major issues with online retailers. This is where many retailers have matured over the years.

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Frictionless retail: A pandemic imperative for IT

Dynatrace

For most who work in the retail sector, the pandemic has been an unwelcome test of our ability to cope with disruption. In eight months, retailers offering curbside pickup increased from 7% to 44%, reflecting rapidly changing consumer preferences. Let’s illustrate a simple use case for a retail outlet. Dynatrace news.

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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

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Server-timing headers are a key tool in understanding what's happening within that black box of Time to First Byte (TTFB). Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold.

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

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Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. It can scale towards a multi-petabyte level data workload without a single issue, and it allows access to a cluster of powerful servers that will work together within a single SQL interface where you can view all of the data.

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Retailers Still Fail to Prepare Their Websites for Holiday Shoppers

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Retailers Still Fail to Prepare Websites for Holiday Shoppers Monitoring of Retailer’s Websites during Black Friday holiday shopping. Black Friday is one of the most valuable times for retailers across the world because buyers shop until they drop. Measured start page load time of leading Retailers websites. The Setup.

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Kubernetes in the wild report 2023

Dynatrace

On-premises data centers invest in higher capacity servers since they provide more flexibility in the long run, while the procurement price of hardware is only one of many cost factors. Redis is an in-memory key-value store and cache that simplifies processing, storage, and interaction with data in Kubernetes environments.

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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

Mobile retail e-commerce spending in the U. By automating and accelerating the service-level objective (SLO) validation process and quickly reacting to regressions in service-level indicators (SLIs), SREs can speed up software delivery and innovation. surpassed $387 billion in 2022, more than double the figure of three years earlier.