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million bits : information learned by average adult; 7.7% : Amazon's share of US retail sales; 100 million : Stack Overflow monthly visitors; $156B : Consumer spending in apps across iOS and Google Play by 2023; Quotable Quotes: John C. Wake up! MORE
Whether it be time, money, or technical know how, every day we talk to eCommerce and Retail teams who explain why they aren’t monitoring their site’s performance. Performance can be intimidating to eCommerce or Retail teams with minimal technical experiences, but it doesn’t have to be. MORE
Retail investors have to put their money somewhere. Wake up! It's HighScalability time: Change is always changing. What will the next 5 years look like? Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. Know anyone who needs cloud? MORE
For instance, the verbs on a retail site might include browsing, adding to a shopping cart, buying, and rating. A look at the stages of designing an API and service. MORE
The client in question purchased and warehoused perishable items, hundreds of thousands of different SKUs that they distributed to retailers ranging from tiny independents to large global chains. Cheap distribution keeps product prices down, which makes their retail clients more competitive. The intra-day re-stocking didn't capture enough revenue lost due to shelves being empty to justify either lower wholesale margins or higher retail prices. MORE
This is a guest post by Hugues Alary , Lead Engineer at Betabrand , a retail clothing company and crowdfunding platform, based in San Francisco. This article was originally published here. Early infrastructure. Rackspace. Hardware infrastructure. The scalability and maintainability issue. MORE
It also treats all outages as equal, whereas an outage on Black Friday for a retailer is much worse than an outage on a quiet day of the year. Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds Mogul & Wilkes, HotOS’19. It’s hard to define good SLOs, especially when outcomes aren’t fully under the control of any single party. The authors of today’s paper should know a thing or two about that: Jeffrey Mogul and John Wilkes at Google 1 ! MORE
Given the significant advantages, we adopted this build pipeline when creating a new mobile checkout experience for customers of Urban Ladder, one of India’s largest furniture and decor retailers. Smart Bundling: How To Serve Legacy Code Only To Legacy Browsers. MORE
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?”. Or are you an eCommerce retailer?” MORE
As a retailer, you know that conversion rates are the lifeblood of your business. One of the ways we helped that retailer achieve an increase in their conversion rate was by helping them get their third parties in check. Web Performance etail west retail rigor MORE
Emily is the VP of Engineering for UGG, an American footwear and activewear retail company. Visual Metrics Alone Paint Only Half The Picture. Measuring and optimizing for user experience is the future of web performance. MORE
AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. This is being called Video Content Analysis (VCA) and it has many application areas from retail to transportation. MORE
cameras) in many usages ranging from digital security/surveillance and automated retail (e.g. The tremendous growth in visual computing is fueled by the rapid increase in deployment of visual sensing (e.g. MORE
There are plenty of examples - music publishing, mass-market retailing, local transportation - where new entrants have left a wake of creative destruction in their path. This isn't to say Amazon isn't going to grow, or be a threat to traditional retailers and other industries, but it is to say that even Amazon is showing evidence of idea exhaustion. MORE
Retail: $20 trillion. Hey, it's HighScalability time: Get antsy waiting 60 seconds for a shot? Imagine taking over 300,000 photos over 14 years, waiting for Mount Colima to erupt. Sergio Tapiro studied, waited, and snapped. Do you like this sort of Stuff? MORE
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. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. By Werner Vogels on 29 June 2011 09:55 AM. MORE
retail human-factorsI was recently shopping at my neighborhood grocery store and encountered yet another real example of the omnipresence of work-as-imagined versus work-as-performed. With only 12 checkout lanes, this is a smaller store. MORE
Emily is the VP of Engineering for UGG, an American footwear and activewear retail company. Visual Metrics Alone Paint Only Half The Picture. Measuring and optimizing for user experience is the future of web performance. MORE
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). Everyone talks about transformation these days, but the term is used so loosely that it’s begun to lose all meaning. MORE
This article summarizes a study that examined the attention that female consumers paid to product-based personalized banner ads for online apparel retailers (Huang 2018). With the rapid growth of online advertising, viewer attention is becoming increasingly scarce. MORE
In our example retail organization, using data lake data scientists can perform analysis around product recommendations, customer propensity, pricing strategy, customer segmentation etc. MORE
French companies are using AWS to innovate in a secure way across industries as diverse as energy, financial services, manufacturing, media, pharmaceuticals and health sciences, retail, and more. MORE
This metric is especially relevant to retail sites, where images on home, product, and campaign landing pages are critical elements. The key to a good user experience is quickly delivering the content your visitors care about the most. This is easy to say, but tricky to do. MORE
Checking out of a retail site. Dynatrace news. Synthetic clickpath monitors are a great way to automatically monitor and benchmark business-critical workflows 24/7. Some common examples of such business-critical workflows include: Sign-up processes. Contact forms. Search. Pricing calculators. MORE
David Rosenthal : The margins on AWS, averaging 24.75% over the last twelve quarters, are what enables Amazon to run the US retail business averaging under 3% margin and the international business averaging -3.7% MORE
I’m at Shop.org this week, having really interesting conversations with online retailers. Making customers happy is the not-so-secret secret to retail success. Here's an overview of the most common performance issues on retail sites, and how you can track them down and fix them. MORE
Let's take an example of retail as a domain of interest. One way to create a Spotify model inspired engineering organisation is to organise long-lived squads by retail business process hubs - i.e. specialisation around business process. MORE
By comparison, well established businesses in industries like air travel or retail banking are expected to be predictable. In contrast, retail firms haven't been so fortunate: ecommerce cannibalizes existing retail sales more than it increase them (to wit: Amazon's growth in retail has come substantially to the detriment of traditional retailers). MORE
Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple. Our retail customers have shared similar challenges about managing workload surges and declines driven by big sale events. MORE
So far, we don't know the official base and turbo clock speeds, but there was a recent leak of partial specifications and pricing by a European retailer that listed max boost clock speeds of up to 3.4 MORE
Mid-sized Organisations – Haven Power , Holiday Extras , ">Exeter Family Friendly , ">Royal Opera House , ">Total Jobs , Retail Companies – Shop Direct , Nisa Retail , Kurt Geiger , Sport Pursuit. MORE
Retailers like JCPenny are taking full advantage of users’ smartphone cameras to add new functionality to their mobile apps such as virtual dressing rooms. Smart developers are always looking ahead for ways to adapt in the ever changing world of web development. MORE
The Journal makes the point that the would-be disruptors in home meal kits have done more to disrupt one another than they have to established players in retail food, and that's an important point. MORE
From ordering your favorite food to shopping from your favorite online retailer, everything is possible with a click of the button. Technology has seen some drastic changes over the past decade with the constant evolution of products. The industry has undergone a few major disruptions, giving rise to different types of practices and approaches in the software industry. The experts in the industry are trying to adapt to these changes. MORE
Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. MORE
I’ve spent some time for collecting meaningful metrics during Black Friday sales of our leading Retailers websites. The post Retailers Still Fail to Prepare Their Websites for Holiday Shoppers appeared first on Dotcom-Monitor Web Performance Blog. Performance Tech Tips Website Performance News user experience website performance monitoring MORE
And It isn’t restricted to financial institutions; fraudsters all over the world are figuring out how to make money illegally across a wide range of industries like telco, adtech, transportation, utilities, government, healthcare, and retail. MORE
They also offer a powerful computing platform for analyzing live data as it changes and generating immediate feedback or “operational intelligence;” for example, see this blog post describing the use of real-time analytics in a retail application. MORE
While keeping such reports in mind, organizations in different business areas like retail, banking, finance, insurance, games, etc. An Intro to SMAC. There is a lot of discussion going currently about SMAC – Social, Mobile, Analytics and the Cloud. SMAC is a new platform with a lot of growth expected in the years to come. Software testing is not only about testing individual parts of the application but also testing the integrated product associated with it. MORE
An example of such a user story would be: – As a retail customer, I want to return an electronically purchase merchandise within 14 days, so that the refund will be processed. What is BDD? MORE
Successful implementation of a VR service could have massive implications for a number of industries, such as retail. Imagine virtual retail environments, where customers browse virtual shelves and products, and converse with customers who share interests and needs. One of the big topics at the OpenStack conference was how to prepare and implement a successful transition to 5G. MORE
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. Different types of businesses (manufacturing, distribution, retail) require different types of leadership and have very different cultures. As far back as the 19th century, industrial firms pursued vertical integration strategies. MORE
Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods. MORE
For example, the message flow depicted in the image below defines what happens when a Receive Retail Request is received by IIB through an MQ input node. Dynatrace news. MORE
Retail Related Topics Highly Scalable
MARCH 10, 2015
Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods.
Speed Curve
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
I’m at Shop.org this week, having really interesting conversations with online retailers. Making customers happy is the not-so-secret secret to retail success. Here's an overview of the most common performance issues on retail sites, and how you can track them down and fix them.
Dotcom-Montior
JANUARY 18, 2018
I’ve spent some time for collecting meaningful metrics during Black Friday sales of our leading Retailers websites. The post Retailers Still Fail to Prepare Their Websites for Holiday Shoppers appeared first on Dotcom-Monitor Web Performance Blog. Performance Tech Tips Website Performance News user experience website performance monitoring
Rigor
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Whether it be time, money, or technical know how, every day we talk to eCommerce and Retail teams who explain why they aren’t monitoring their site’s performance. Performance can be intimidating to eCommerce or Retail teams with minimal technical experiences, but it doesn’t have to be.
High Scalability
APRIL 8, 2019
This is a guest post by Hugues Alary , Lead Engineer at Betabrand , a retail clothing company and crowdfunding platform, based in San Francisco. This article was originally published here. Early infrastructure. Rackspace. Hardware infrastructure. The scalability and maintainability issue.
Rigor
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
As a retailer, you know that conversion rates are the lifeblood of your business. One of the ways we helped that retailer achieve an increase in their conversion rate was by helping them get their third parties in check. Web Performance etail west retail rigor
J. Paul Reed
AUGUST 23, 2017
retail human-factorsI was recently shopping at my neighborhood grocery store and encountered yet another real example of the omnipresence of work-as-imagined versus work-as-performed. With only 12 checkout lanes, this is a smaller store.
Dynatrace
JULY 12, 2019
For example, the message flow depicted in the image below defines what happens when a Receive Retail Request is received by IIB through an MQ input node. Dynatrace news.
DZone
JULY 18, 2019
While keeping such reports in mind, organizations in different business areas like retail, banking, finance, insurance, games, etc. An Intro to SMAC. There is a lot of discussion going currently about SMAC – Social, Mobile, Analytics and the Cloud. SMAC is a new platform with a lot of growth expected in the years to come. Software testing is not only about testing individual parts of the application but also testing the integrated product associated with it.
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. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. By Werner Vogels on 29 June 2011 09:55 AM.
Website Optimization
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
This article summarizes a study that examined the attention that female consumers paid to product-based personalized banner ads for online apparel retailers (Huang 2018). With the rapid growth of online advertising, viewer attention is becoming increasingly scarce.
DZone
MAY 16, 2019
From ordering your favorite food to shopping from your favorite online retailer, everything is possible with a click of the button. Technology has seen some drastic changes over the past decade with the constant evolution of products. The industry has undergone a few major disruptions, giving rise to different types of practices and approaches in the software industry. The experts in the industry are trying to adapt to these changes.
High Scalability
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
Retail investors have to put their money somewhere. Wake up! It's HighScalability time: Change is always changing. What will the next 5 years look like? Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. Know anyone who needs cloud?
Dynatrace
JULY 16, 2019
Checking out of a retail site. Dynatrace news. Synthetic clickpath monitors are a great way to automatically monitor and benchmark business-critical workflows 24/7. Some common examples of such business-critical workflows include: Sign-up processes. Contact forms. Search. Pricing calculators.
High Scalability
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Retail: $20 trillion. Hey, it's HighScalability time: Get antsy waiting 60 seconds for a shot? Imagine taking over 300,000 photos over 14 years, waiting for Mount Colima to erupt. Sergio Tapiro studied, waited, and snapped. Do you like this sort of Stuff?
All Things Distributed
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
Mid-sized Organisations – Haven Power , Holiday Extras , ">Exeter Family Friendly , ">Royal Opera House , ">Total Jobs , Retail Companies – Shop Direct , Nisa Retail , Kurt Geiger , Sport Pursuit.
High Scalability
AUGUST 3, 2018
David Rosenthal : The margins on AWS, averaging 24.75% over the last twelve quarters, are what enables Amazon to run the US retail business averaging under 3% margin and the international business averaging -3.7%
Abhishek Tiwari
JULY 20, 2019
Let's take an example of retail as a domain of interest. One way to create a Spotify model inspired engineering organisation is to organise long-lived squads by retail business process hubs - i.e. specialisation around business process.
SQL Performance
JULY 16, 2019
So far, we don't know the official base and turbo clock speeds, but there was a recent leak of partial specifications and pricing by a European retailer that listed max boost clock speeds of up to 3.4
VoltDB
JUNE 19, 2017
Successful implementation of a VR service could have massive implications for a number of industries, such as retail. Imagine virtual retail environments, where customers browse virtual shelves and products, and converse with customers who share interests and needs. One of the big topics at the OpenStack conference was how to prepare and implement a successful transition to 5G.
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). Everyone talks about transformation these days, but the term is used so loosely that it’s begun to lose all meaning.
VoltDB
JANUARY 12, 2018
And It isn’t restricted to financial institutions; fraudsters all over the world are figuring out how to make money illegally across a wide range of industries like telco, adtech, transportation, utilities, government, healthcare, and retail.
ACM Sigarch
DECEMBER 6, 2018
cameras) in many usages ranging from digital security/surveillance and automated retail (e.g. The tremendous growth in visual computing is fueled by the rapid increase in deployment of visual sensing (e.g.
O'Reilly Software
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
For instance, the verbs on a retail site might include browsing, adding to a shopping cart, buying, and rating. A look at the stages of designing an API and service.
Testlodge
MARCH 21, 2018
An example of such a user story would be: – As a retail customer, I want to return an electronically purchase merchandise within 14 days, so that the refund will be processed. What is BDD?
KeyCDN
MARCH 14, 2019
Retailers like JCPenny are taking full advantage of users’ smartphone cameras to add new functionality to their mobile apps such as virtual dressing rooms. Smart developers are always looking ahead for ways to adapt in the ever changing world of web development.
The Morning Paper
JUNE 18, 2019
It also treats all outages as equal, whereas an outage on Black Friday for a retailer is much worse than an outage on a quiet day of the year. Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds Mogul & Wilkes, HotOS’19. It’s hard to define good SLOs, especially when outcomes aren’t fully under the control of any single party. The authors of today’s paper should know a thing or two about that: Jeffrey Mogul and John Wilkes at Google 1 !
The Agile Manager
JULY 31, 2014
By comparison, well established businesses in industries like air travel or retail banking are expected to be predictable. In contrast, retail firms haven't been so fortunate: ecommerce cannibalizes existing retail sales more than it increase them (to wit: Amazon's growth in retail has come substantially to the detriment of traditional retailers).
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?”. Or are you an eCommerce retailer?”
Abhishek Tiwari
DECEMBER 22, 2017
In our example retail organization, using data lake data scientists can perform analysis around product recommendations, customer propensity, pricing strategy, customer segmentation etc.
The Agile Manager
JANUARY 31, 2016
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. Different types of businesses (manufacturing, distribution, retail) require different types of leadership and have very different cultures. As far back as the 19th century, industrial firms pursued vertical integration strategies.
The Agile Manager
JULY 31, 2019
The Journal makes the point that the would-be disruptors in home meal kits have done more to disrupt one another than they have to established players in retail food, and that's an important point.
Highly Scalable
APRIL 2, 2012
Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company.
The Agile Manager
SEPTEMBER 30, 2017
There are plenty of examples - music publishing, mass-market retailing, local transportation - where new entrants have left a wake of creative destruction in their path. This isn't to say Amazon isn't going to grow, or be a threat to traditional retailers and other industries, but it is to say that even Amazon is showing evidence of idea exhaustion.
ScaleOut Software
AUGUST 19, 2014
They also offer a powerful computing platform for analyzing live data as it changes and generating immediate feedback or “operational intelligence;” for example, see this blog post describing the use of real-time analytics in a retail application.
Smashing Magazine
OCTOBER 15, 2018
Given the significant advantages, we adopted this build pipeline when creating a new mobile checkout experience for customers of Urban Ladder, one of India’s largest furniture and decor retailers. Smart Bundling: How To Serve Legacy Code Only To Legacy Browsers.
All Things Distributed
MARCH 11, 2015
AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. This is being called Video Content Analysis (VCA) and it has many application areas from retail to transportation.
Rigor
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Emily is the VP of Engineering for UGG, an American footwear and activewear retail company. Visual Metrics Alone Paint Only Half The Picture. Measuring and optimizing for user experience is the future of web performance.
Rigor
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Emily is the VP of Engineering for UGG, an American footwear and activewear retail company. Visual Metrics Alone Paint Only Half The Picture. Measuring and optimizing for user experience is the future of web performance.
All Things Distributed
NOVEMBER 21, 2017
Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple. Our retail customers have shared similar challenges about managing workload surges and declines driven by big sale events.
Speed Curve
AUGUST 21, 2017
This metric is especially relevant to retail sites, where images on home, product, and campaign landing pages are critical elements. The key to a good user experience is quickly delivering the content your visitors care about the most. This is easy to say, but tricky to do.
The Agile Manager
JANUARY 31, 2017
The client in question purchased and warehoused perishable items, hundreds of thousands of different SKUs that they distributed to retailers ranging from tiny independents to large global chains. Cheap distribution keeps product prices down, which makes their retail clients more competitive. The intra-day re-stocking didn't capture enough revenue lost due to shelves being empty to justify either lower wholesale margins or higher retail prices.
All Things Distributed
DECEMBER 18, 2017
French companies are using AWS to innovate in a secure way across industries as diverse as energy, financial services, manufacturing, media, pharmaceuticals and health sciences, retail, and more.
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