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Five questions with Forrester Analyst: The state of the UK Retail landscape

Dynatrace

For retail, in particular, the crisis has forced many to accelerate the execution of strategic plans for digital customer experience and operational excellence. Consumers may be more likely to interact more “digitally” with brands going forward, and online sales are expected to make up a greater proportion of overall retail sales.

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Kubernetes in the wild report 2023

Dynatrace

While Kubernetes is still a relatively young technology, a large majority of global enterprises use it to run business-critical applications in production. Findings provide insights into Kubernetes practitioners’ infrastructure preferences and how they use advanced Kubernetes platform technologies. Java, Go, and Node.js

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Black Friday traffic exposes gaps in observability strategies

Dynatrace

If the mantra in sales is “Always be closing,” the mantra for online retail storefronts is “Always be online.”. As Alois Reitbauer, chief technology strategist at Dynatrace, noted in 2020, organizations shouldn’t be caught off guard during Black Friday and other high-volume times. What’s the problem with Black Friday traffic?

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Pioneering customer-centric pricing models: Decoding ingest-centric vs. answer-centric pricing

Dynatrace

This data overload also prevents customer-centric pricing models as users consider cost-effective technology platforms. retail giant, initially tied to an ingest-centric pricing vendor, found itself manually curbing costs by limiting daily log ingestion to 3 TB and reducing retention periods. A prominent U.S. 1 million in savings.

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Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

Dynatrace

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. But as more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies and distribute workloads among multicloud environments, that goal seems harder to attain. The nightmare scenario for online retailers during peak periods, such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday, is a system crash.

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'Paris s'éveille'! Introducing the AWS EU (Paris) Region

All Things Distributed

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS EU (Paris) Region, our 18th technology infrastructure Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. We have also been investing in helping to grow the entire French IT community with training, education, and certification programs.

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The Next Generation in Logistics Tracking with Real-Time Digital Twins

ScaleOut Software

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. It can receive telemetry from retail stores over the Internet using event delivery systems such as Azure IoT Event Hub, AWS, Kafka, and REST, and it can respond back to the retail stores in milliseconds.