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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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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

The problems fostered by social media, search, and recommendation algorithms was never an engineering issue, but one of financial incentives (of profit growth) not aligning with algorithms’ safe, effective, and equitable deployment. User preferences were downgraded in algorithmic importance in favour of more profitable content.

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How digital experience monitoring helps deliver business observability

Dynatrace

RUM use cases include monitoring an online retailer’s site to detect any increases in page load time, tracking users’ paths through a conversion funnel, or analyzing adoption of new mobile app versions. Endpoint monitoring (EM). What DEM and business observability mean for the bottom line.

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. Negative experiences can swiftly spread through social media and other platforms, worsening the impact on the brand's image.

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. Negative experiences can swiftly spread through social media and other platforms, worsening the impact on the brand's image.

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How companies can become magnets for digital talent

All Things Distributed

At the same time, if your daily corporate practice doesn't fulfill their expectations regarding a vibrant and flexible working culture and a social media-minded environment, digital natives will simply turn their back on you and go elsewhere. Finding those kind of people is not easy. Take industrial companies.

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Web Development Trends 2019

KeyCDN

Low Code, Less Problems Low code development platforms like Google App Maker and Microsoft PowerApps have lowered the entry bar for novice web designers by streamlining the development process. Asking users to log into your website via their Facebook account or other social media credentials is no longer recommended.