Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

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?

Traffic 191

Traffic Strategy Retail Ecommerce 191

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

However, it imposes the burden that everyone participates in a common tracing system and consistently makes the effort to log interactions. Enabling Technology: In-Memory Computing. The contact tracing system follows the chain of contacts across departments at all locations within the company.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

However, it imposes the burden that everyone participates in a common tracing system and consistently makes the effort to log interactions. Enabling Technology: In-Memory Computing. The contact tracing system follows the chain of contacts across departments at all locations within the company.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

However, it imposes the burden that everyone participates in a common tracing system and consistently makes the effort to log interactions. Enabling Technology: In-Memory Computing. The contact tracing system follows the chain of contacts across departments at all locations within the company.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. Comments (). APAC Summer Tour.

AWS 104

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Blockchains have a uniquely tumultuous early history for an enterprise technology—from a mysterious origin story, to a sensational first application in bitcoin, to a swift fall from a particularly frothy hype cycle. Blockchain technology provides the encrypted distributed ledger that made the first cryptocurrency, bitcoin, possible.

Blockchain 68

Blockchain IoT Logistics Internet 68

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Firms in industries ranging from financial services to retail pharmacy to fast food aspire to be "platform companies." It is also a good story to tell Wall Street as it allows a firm to create the aura of being the technology leader in their space while trafficking in the success of companies like Amazon. lean and agile process).

Innovation 40

Innovation Retail Strategy Technology 40

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). Strategy: Shift from static to dynamic. Technology: Shift from tasks to learning.

Innovation 104

Innovation Scalability Efficiency Mobile 104

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Banking customers now expect digital experiences on par with those delivered by leading e-commerce and technology companies, and emerging financial technology (fintech) companies are racing to provide these kinds of experiences. So are established competitors, which are investing in platform plays to boost market share.

FinTech 193

FinTech Innovation Strategy Retail 193

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. Numerous big players have considered such an opinion and have recently implemented this technology. Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Large preview ).

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS). Check out her writing about business and technology on her own site at rachelandrew.co.uk , and follow her on Twitter @ rachelandrew , where she tweets about CSS, tech topics, and much more. Jake Archibald. ” Paul Calvano. Paul Calvano.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Each is a new take on an old theme, echoing one part of the contradiction that has riddled every business with a captive technology department: we want to minimize how much we spend on IT, and we want IT to be a source of innovation. Personal technology such as spreadsheets and smartphones empowers increasingly tech-savvy knowledge workers.

Ecommerce 45

Ecommerce Social Media Retail Airlines 45

The Agile Manager

JULY 9, 2010

Retail banking serves largely a utilitarian purpose in an economy. With stability comes confidence in the financial system (a confidence underwritten by federal deposit insurance), and that confidence is a pillar of a strong society. Putting explicitly risk-averse capital at high risk undermines the stability of the financial system.

Retail 45

Retail Technology Technology Small Business 45

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In an age where mainly all services that businesses provide their customers run on computing technology, it is crucial that companies understand the importance of providing reliable access to their systems.In However, consumers often prioritize availability in many systems. What is 5 Nines Availability?In

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In an age where mainly all services that businesses provide their customers run on computing technology, it is crucial that companies understand the importance of providing reliable access to their systems.In However, consumers often prioritize availability in many systems. What is 5 Nines Availability?In

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Since its release in November 2022, almost everyone involved with technology has experimented with ChatGPT: students, faculty, and professionals in almost every discipline. The problem that AI introduces is the scale at which automated systems can cause harm. The answers to this question will define the next generation of our economy.

Education 72

Education Healthcare Media Systems 72

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

meme originated in IT’s transformation from manual system administration to automated configuration management and software deployment. We could see it as an example of 1980s-style “ expert systems ,” based on deterministic business rules. The data available to our retail business is much more limited. We’ll see it in banking.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2016

As far back as the 19th century, industrial firms pursued vertical integration strategies. 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.

Blockchain 40

Blockchain Retail Social Media Airlines 40

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

O’Reilly Learning > We wanted to discover what our readers were doing with cloud, microservices, and other critical infrastructure and operations technologies. Technical leads and architects (about 11%) are next, followed by software and systems architects (9+%). All told, we received 1,283 responses.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

If you have been paying attention to the technology press over the past 12-18 months, you may have noticed a rather large number of negative stories about Intel's processor business. 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. The Death of Tick-Tock.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46