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Customer expectations for retail: Beyond digital experience

Dynatrace

This is typically the first thing that comes to mind for IT professionals working in the retail industry when evaluating holiday readiness. CEOs of hybrid retailers prioritize e-commerce growth over in-store shopping, investing heavily in their online storefronts. That lesson remains important. Multi-channel logistics.

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The Agile Architect: Mastering Architectural Observability To Slay Technical Debt

DZone

It's a story as old as ( UNIX ) time — in scene one, we meet an international online retailer whose software infrastructure is based on a sprawling monolithic application. The application has matured, mirroring the business's rapid growth, but the resulting complexity introduces significant complications.

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Causal AI use cases for modern observability that can transform any business

Dynatrace

That’s why causal AI use cases abound for organizations looking to build more reliable and transparent AI systems. Understanding complex systems Causal AI holds great importance for achieving full-stack observability in complex systems. More generally, causal AI can contribute to explainable and fair AI systems.

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Improving customer experience with business process monitoring

Dynatrace

In fact, most business processes still rely on multiple systems, long ago outgrowing the capabilities of built-in platform-centric monitoring. IT teams lack insight into how the systems they manage impact business outcomes. This leaves business leaders with incomplete visibility into these critical business assets.

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Pioneering customer-centric pricing models: Decoding ingest-centric vs. answer-centric pricing

Dynatrace

Moreover, the system lacks flexibility, imposing strict schemas that administrators and developers must adhere to avoid additional costs. retail giant, initially tied to an ingest-centric pricing vendor, found itself manually curbing costs by limiting daily log ingestion to 3 TB and reducing retention periods. A prominent U.S.

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Extend business observability: Extract business events from online databases (Part 1)

Dynatrace

Dynatrace business events address these systemic problems, delivering real-time business observability to business and IT teams with the precision and context required to support data-driven decisions and improve business outcomes. Data is not delivered in real time; it’s often delayed by weeks or longer.

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Happy 15th Birthday Amazon S3 -- the service that started it all

All Things Distributed

Back then, Amazon was ~2% of its size today, and was growing faster than traditional IT systems could support. We had to rethink everything previously known about building scalable systems. Storage was one of our biggest pain points, and the traditional systems we used just weren’t fitting the needs of the Amazon.com retail business.

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