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. Fast data circulation in modern retail enables retailers to make accurate forecasts using relatively simple models because small incremental predictions are generally simpler than big decisions.

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Retail Big Data Analytics C++ 135

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

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. Dynatrace news.

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Retail Metrics Website Mobile 139

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

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Retail Website Metrics Website Performance 40

Dotcom-Montior

JANUARY 18, 2018

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. This year I’ve spent some time for collecting meaningful metrics during Black Friday sales of our leading Retailers websites. Measured start page load time of leading Retailers websites.

Retail 40

Retail Website Website Performance Servers 40

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. Delivering a fast, consistent online experience has been proven to measurably increase every metric retailers care about – from conversions and revenue to retention and brand perception. (In I’ve analyzed hundreds (and possibly thousands) of retail web pages over the past several years.

Retail 40

Retail Metrics Analytics Design 40

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. Since our team is preparing for eTail West , there is no better time to address some of the common objections I’ve seen when talking to eCommerce and Retail teams about performance. But there are also eCommerce and Retail teams that integrate performance into their everyday process of building and releasing new content.

Retail 40

Retail Ecommerce Benchmarking Testing 40

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 rigorPalm Springs, CA is the place to be next week for eCommerce professionals with the annual eTail West Conference taking place Feb. 26 – Mar.

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Mobile Ecommerce Website Speed 40

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. Scaling development processes. The advent of Docker. Kubernetes. Learning Kubernetes. Officially migrating. The development/staging environments. A year after. kubernetes

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Retail Hardware Infrastructure Scalability 211

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.

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AWS Cloud Strategy Retail 66

Abstracta

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Everything you need to know to technically prepare your website for Black Friday and Cyber Monday While it’s coming down to the wire for retailers to get their.

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Retail Website Software Software 52

DZone

APRIL 9, 2020

It provides an insightful example: " Cybercriminals load malicious code onto retailers' websites to steal shoppers' credit card details, with 4,800+ unique websites compromised on average every month. Cyberattacks are rising decade per decade, and this decade is no different. It is no surprise that web attacks rose by 56% in the last year alone, reports Norton's 2019 Internet Security Threat Report.

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Technology Technology Retail Website 156

DZone

AUGUST 28, 2019

On our kitchen counters, in university dorm rooms , in retail outlets, and at live events. The demand for content is at an all-time high. According to the International Data Corporation , the digital universe is doubling in size every two years and is expected to reach 44 trillion gigabytes by 2020. This meteoric growth is being fueled by increasing consumer demand for digital experiences in places where we never once imagined them.

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Retail Performance 126

DZone

JUNE 8, 2020

Businesses in any industry, from manufacturing and construction to financial services and retail, have become increasingly dependent on technology, not just to succeed but to survive. As a result, businesses cannot afford the potential losses of productivity and security breaches due to ineffective software testing. No enterprises have the luxury to ignore unexpected downtime from software failures.

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Retail Software Software Technology 116

TechBeacon Testing

APRIL 29, 2020

From online retail to finance, and from streaming entertainment to healthcare providers and agencies, all manner of businesses and government entities have seen their web traffic and app activity explode. COVID-19 has changed everything for many organizations, and it did so overnight, with no time to prepare. App Dev & Testing, Testing, Pandemic, Performance Engineering, Performance Testing

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Healthcare Entertainment Retail Government 56

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. Retail performance . Despite a significant spike in demand, overall, service performance in the retail sector has been stable, as the dashboard below shows. . Dynatrace news.

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Website Retail Traffic Media 174

DZone

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Whatever the business is whether it is a multi-million dollar IT-based enterprise, a service providing company, an educational institution, a retail shop, a beauty salon, having an appealing and error-free website gives an online presence and helps them build the business. In the modern world, websites have turned out to be very crucial and every single company or business or even individuals own websites.

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Testing Tools Education Website Retail 125

High Scalability

MARCH 29, 2019

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! It's HighScalability time: Uber's microservice Graph. Thousands of microservices. Crazy like a fox? Or just crazy? ( @msuriar ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon.

Internet 200

Internet Internet Scalability Retail 200

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

The advanced analytics provided by Greenplum is being used across many verticals, including finance, manufacturing, automotive, government, energy, education, retail, and so on, to address a wide variety of problems. Greenplum customers include American Express, Walmart, Asurian, Bank of America, and many more across the banking, professional services, media, insurance, healthcare, automotive and retail markets.

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 197

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 20, 2020

Fast-forward 25 years, Amazon's retail business has more than 175 fulfillment centers (FC) worldwide with over 250,000 full-time associates shipping millions of items per day. Back when Jeff Bezos filled orders in his garage and drove packages to the post office himself, crunching the numbers on costs, tracking inventory, and forecasting future demand was relatively simple.

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Big Data Logistics Retail Government 129

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

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. The following diagram illustrates a nationwide chain of retail outlets streaming telemetry to their counterpart real-time digital twins running in the cloud service.

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Logistics Retail Azure IoT 40

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

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. The following diagram illustrates a nationwide chain of retail outlets streaming telemetry to their counterpart real-time digital twins running in the cloud service.

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Logistics Retail Azure IoT 40

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

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. The following diagram illustrates a nationwide chain of retail outlets streaming telemetry to their counterpart real-time digital twins running in the cloud service.

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Logistics Retail Azure IoT 40

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Target is one of the most well-known retailers around, and they’ve recently increased their focus on the e-commerce portion of their business – Target.com. In fact, they just cracked into the top 10 list of US e-commerce retailers.

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Retail Speed Website Google 72

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.

Retail 109

Retail Mobile Performance Testing 109

Rigor

DECEMBER 13, 2019

During Black Friday weekend 2019, fast-fashion retailer Forever 21’s website had an outage that left users seeing a generic error message when they tried to shop the company’s doorbuster deals. As the site recovered from the outage, its performance took a hit, requiring extra time to recover. By taking advantage. The post 2019 Black Friday Performance Analysis – Forever 21 appeared first on Production. Web Performance black friday holiday readiness

Retail 40

Retail Website Performance 40

Rigor

DECEMBER 13, 2019

During Black Friday weekend 2019, fast-fashion retailer Forever 21’s website had an outage that left users seeing a generic error message when they tried to shop the company’s doorbuster deals. As the site recovered from the outage, its performance took a hit, requiring extra time to recover. By taking advantage. The post 2019 Black Friday Performance Analysis – Forever 21 appeared first on Production. Web Performance black friday holiday readiness

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Retail Website Performance 40

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.

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Retail Games Testing Software 100

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. In 2018 alone, total media ad spending will rise 7.4% to $638 billion. Digital media will account for 43.5% of this total ad spend (eMarketer 2018) and will surpass conventional advertising by 2021.

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Media Retail 43

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. Yesterday, AWS evangelist Jeff Barr wrote that AWS will be opening a region in South Korea in early 2016 that will be our 5th region in Asia Pacific.

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Retail AWS Entertainment IoT 129

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2021

Countless manufacturers lost and had to contend with complete loss of their primary distribution channel, small retail and department stores. eCommerce retail sales from groceries to gadgets skyrocketed last year.

Retail 52

Retail Ecommerce Innovation 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 9, 2020

RETAIL. The response time chart below is from a retail chain in Mexico, showing a couple of “blips” where the performance response time went way below average. Dynatrace news. Just like all other regions of the world, Dynatrace customers in Latin American (LATAM) are confronting new challenges as the global pandemic of COVID-19 forces companies to adapt to application and software demands.

Retail 150

Retail Infrastructure Government Mobile 150

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

As a result, many teams have 18 developers and only one QA,” said Heather Munoz, Head of the Retail Brokerage Practice at E*Trade, on a recent podcast interview. . Even in today’s economic downturn, where U.S.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation 52

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 18, 2020

A visual representation of all the jobs I had in high school and college: From pizza, to gourmet rice krispie treats, to clothing retail, to doors and locks After receiving a grand total of *zero* interviews from sending out my resume, the natural next step was…more school.

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Analytics Education Retail Data Engineering 134

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? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. It has 35 mostly 5 star reviews. They'll learn a lot and love you forever.

Internet 180

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 180

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Head of engineering at one of our home improvement retail customers. Dynatrace news. During our virtual wine tasting event, there were three key themes that came to light about how attendees’ businesses had had to change to meet the new way of working.

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Ecommerce Retail Virtualization Innovation 139

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

We were going through Adobe Retail Shopping Insights (2020) and found out that more than 42% of consumers have done their holiday shopping via smartphones. The world isn’t new to the mobile-first approach.

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Mobile Website Speed Retail 56

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. If everything goes well and all necessary data is available, the Receive Retail Request is processed in the ProcessOrder compute node, and the flow continues in an Order Item Request , Stock Check Request , or Purchase Item Request , and the message is put on the relevant IBM MQ endpoints. Dynatrace news.

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Retail Tuning Availability Systems 128

Dynatrace

AUGUST 14, 2020

Real-world example: Retail banking. Dynatrace news.

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Analytics Cloud Retail Monitoring 160

Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

While most government agencies and commercial enterprises have digital services in place, the current volume of usage — including traffic to critical employment, health and retail/eCommerce services — has reached levels that many organizations have never seen before or tested against. Retail sites are usually well-prepared for these spikes, as they know when they are coming. Dynatrace news.

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Traffic Ecommerce Retail Government 165

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Non-topology metrics are not related to any Smartscape entity (for example, a retailer’s revenue numbers per store). Let’s take the example of a globally distributed retailer that collects revenue measurements every minute for all its shops worldwide. Dynatrace news.

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Metrics Analytics Retail Storage 157

Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 24, 2020

There are several outcomes, some markets like work from home tools and services, healthcare and grocery retail are extra busy, social media applications are extra busy but their revenue from advertising may be impacted, and many businesses in manufacturing, travel and entertainment are have largely been shut down because their workforce and customers are in lockdown. A cost-optimizer at work.

Social Media 40

Social Media Cloud Healthcare Entertainment 40

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

For organizations with multiple brands, retail locations, or customer loyalty tiers, Digital Business Analytics is being used to gain a deep understanding of the overall health of the business down to smaller segments of business units or customer cohorts. Dynatrace news. Traditionally, it’s critical for Dev and Ops teams to be able to quickly discover and remediate application performance and customer-facing issues.

Analytics 167

Analytics Retail Metrics Mobile 167

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Let’s assume that your company operates hundreds of individual retail shops across the United States and you want those shops to report a selected set of business KPIs into your monitoring environment. Dynatrace news.

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Metrics Monitoring Retail Analytics 145