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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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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

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. However, many of these models are highly parametric (i.e.

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Introducing Page Speed Benchmarks – a new resource for the performance community

Speed Curve

What are some good sites I can use for benchmarking? Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media. Identify sites you can use for your own competitive benchmarking. How awesome is that?!

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Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

Dynatrace

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. The nightmare scenario for online retailers during peak periods, such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday, is a system crash. But is five nines availability attainable?

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What is FinOps? How to keep cloud spend in check

Dynatrace

Today, many global industries implement FinOps, including telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, and energy conservation, as well as most Fortune 50 companies. Additionally, include benchmarks for stakeholders and best practices that support the anticipated growth of the organization as a whole. FinOps company culture.

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Monitor dynamic application workflows with placeholders and synthetic location context

Dynatrace

Synthetic clickpath monitors are a great way to automatically monitor and benchmark business-critical workflows 24/7. Checking out of a retail site. Dynatrace news. Some common examples of such business-critical workflows include: Sign-up processes. Contact forms. Pricing calculators.

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Five observability predictions for 2025

Dynatrace

For example, a global retailer could leverage observability to track energy efficiency across its data centers. By embracing these strategies, the retailer could significantly reduce energy consumption and operational costs while fulfilling its environmental commitments.

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