The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

We worked in different industries before joining Netflix, including tech, entertainment, retail, science policy, and research. Coding with statistical software and SQL are my most widely used technical skills. New initiatives and strategy bets are captured in memos for anyone in the company to read and engage in discourse.

Analytics 207

Analytics Innovation C++ Engineering 207

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. We describe the problems one by one in separate sections.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

And these talents are by no means coveted only by companies that always had a digital business model to begin with; suppliers to the automotive industry, financial services companies, and retailers also, urgently need product managers, and technical staff who can quickly make their organizations digitally attractive to their customers.

Social Media 85

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 85

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

Within the cloud service, the in-memory computing system maintains a software-based real-time digital twin for each employee. This software twin records and maintains all contacts for the employee, as well as all community contacts. The post Voluntary Contact Self-Tracing for Companies appeared first on ScaleOut Software.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

Within the cloud service, the in-memory computing system maintains a software-based real-time digital twin for each employee. This software twin records and maintains all contacts for the employee, as well as all community contacts. The post Voluntary Contact Self-Tracing for Companies appeared first on ScaleOut Software.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

Within the cloud service, the in-memory computing system maintains a software-based real-time digital twin for each employee. This software twin records and maintains all contacts for the employee, as well as all community contacts. It also removes non-recurring contacts after sufficient time passes and exposure is no longer likely.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Alibaba is one of the e-commerce giants that have “run the gamut” from a regular online retail store to a native application (created for mobile shopping purposes) and then on to a PWA. Do people use push notifications? Large preview ).

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

In the years leading up to 2000, there was aggressive spend on technology: insulation against fears of the Y2K bug (legacy software and hardware with time functions that wouldn't properly roll over to 01/01/2000) as well as development of new business and consumer technology to exploit what was then nascent internet technology.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Patrick is a London-based software developer who specializes in web performance and who describes himself as enjoying “working the entire stack, back-end to front-end, CDN to server.” Rick Byers.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Fashion magazines are launching electronic retail sites. More and more, we're seeing corporate eCommerce chiefs who are "digital asset investors", responsible for the digital strategy and assets of a business. He or she is responsible for a portfolio of technology investments made through software and digital media.

Ecommerce 45

Ecommerce Social Media Retail Airlines 45

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Mark Fontecchio : we find that more companies are turning to HR software and the data it contains for strategic insights. Retail investors have to put their money somewhere. They'll learn a lot and love you forever. This year, that same market is expected to generate $137.9 billion in revenues.

Internet 188

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 188

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Whether it's an e-commerce platform, a banking system, or a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider, downtime can result in lost sales, dissatisfied consumers, and financial losses.As one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Whether it's an e-commerce platform, a banking system, or a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider, downtime can result in lost sales, dissatisfied consumers, and financial losses.As one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

That’s a bit alarming, because the Flow Metrics of several Fortune 100 companies now practicing value stream management (VSM ) in their software portfolios have revealed an acute resource scarcity in QA. Flow diagnostics for software delivery, similar to crime scene forensics, can reveal the impediments to faster, better delivery. .

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Maybe you’re launching some software and need to know how to price it. Web scraping is the practice of extracting large amounts of web data through the use of software. Being the largest online retailer on the planet, it’s safe to say that if you want to buy something, you can probably get it on Amazon. Robert Sfichi.

Website 115

Website Code Retail Best Practices 115

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

meme originated in IT’s transformation from manual system administration to automated configuration management and software deployment. The data available to our retail business is much more limited. The online business is information-rich; the retail business is information-poor. We’ll see it in banking. That’s the bad news.

Games 117

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 117

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

That’s a bit alarming, because the Flow Metrics of several Fortune 100 companies now practicing value stream management (VSM ) in their software portfolios have revealed an acute resource scarcity in QA. Flow diagnostics for software delivery, similar to crime scene forensics, can reveal the impediments to faster, better delivery. .

Healthcare 40

Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation 40

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

Twined with the radical reduction of information asymmetry (particularly with regard to product price data), it stands to reason that there has been significant productivity growth in western economies: supply chains have never been so optimized, retail and wholesale transactions so price-fair and friction-free.

Energy 52

Energy Government Entertainment Innovation 52

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

In the 1970s, the predominant business strategy was vertical integration: own the value chain from raw materials to retail outlets. Michael Porter argued in Competitive Strategy that vertical integration enabled cost leadership, which was more likely to win market share than a strategy of differentiation.

Retail 40

Retail Strategy Technology Technology 40

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

Software engineers represent the largest cohort, comprising almost 20% of all respondents (see Figure 1 ). Technical leads and architects (about 11%) are next, followed by software and systems architects (9+%). Almost one-quarter (23%) of respondents work in the software industry ( Figure 3 ). Respondent Demographics.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

In support of Amazon Prime Day 2017, the biggest day in Amazon retail history, DynamoDB served over 12.9 million requests per second.

Internet 130

Internet Internet AWS Performance 130

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

And even with error rates as low as 1%, we’re easily talking about thousands of errors sprinkled randomly through software, press releases, hiring decisions, catalog entries—everything AI touches. Many other kinds of business partners will be affected by the use of AI: suppliers, wholesalers, retailers, contractors of many types.

Education 73

Education Healthcare Media Systems 73

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). Now, I am advising people to strongly consider AMD for SQL Server workloads as the AMD EPYC "Rome" processors are released in Q3 of 2019.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46