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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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The new normal of digital experience delivery – lessons learned from monitoring mission-critical websites during COVID-19

Dynatrace

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. Additionally, increases in server-side response times (Time to First Byte) caused high response times, leading to failures. .

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Dynatrace and Red Hat expand enterprise observability to edge computing

Dynatrace

As an example, many retailers already leverage containerized workloads in-store to enhance customer experiences using video analytics or streamline inventory management using RFID tracking for improved security. ActiveGate acts as a secure proxy and compresses and routes observability signals in an optimized manner to Dynatrace servers.

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

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. Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL.

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Retailers Still Fail to Prepare Their Websites for Holiday Shoppers

Dotcom-Montior

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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