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Five questions with Forrester Analyst: The state of the UK Retail landscape

Dynatrace

For retail, in particular, the crisis has forced many to accelerate the execution of strategic plans for digital customer experience and operational excellence. Consumers may be more likely to interact more “digitally” with brands going forward, and online sales are expected to make up a greater proportion of overall retail sales.

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How digital experience monitoring helps deliver business observability

Dynatrace

STM generates traffic that replicates the typical path or behavior of a user on a network to measure performance for example, response times, availability, packet loss, latency, jitter, and other variables). PC, smartphone, server) or virtual (virtual machines, cloud gateways). Endpoint monitoring (EM).

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes.

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes.

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

This was a lesson we had already learned from our experiences with Amazon retail, but it became even more important for AWS’s API-centric business. AWS has come to support many different workloads; from high-volume transaction processing to video transcoding at scale, from high-performance parallel computing to massive web site traffic.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

In support of Amazon Prime Day 2017, the biggest day in Amazon retail history, DynamoDB served over 12.9 VPC Endpoints give you the ability to control whether network traffic between your application and DynamoDB traverses the public Internet or stays within your virtual private cloud. million requests per second.

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Where microservice development benefits from automation

O'Reilly Software

By encapsulating tasks into separate services, parts of an application can be developed independently, deployed efficiently as containers, and scaled out automatically with new instances as traffic grows. For instance, the verbs on a retail site might include browsing, adding to a shopping cart, buying, and rating. The design stage.