Dynatrace

APRIL 27, 2022

The continued growth of e-commerce has led to digital transformation moving at unprecedented speeds, as retailers compete for the attention of over 2.1 Retailers are increasingly adopting multicloud strategies to gain the agility required to succeed. billion online shoppers. The rise of cloud complexity.

Retail 246

Retail Cloud Speed Strategy 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 10, 2023

Extend business observability to data at rest In our past blog post about business agility, we looked at a retail sales use case example to investigate potential causes of underperforming store locations. There are also many cases where business data—transactional, inventory, or financial—is at rest or in use , stored in a database.

Database 130

Database Metrics Retail Analytics 130

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

Possible scenarios A retail website crashes during a major sale event due to a surge in traffic. Possible scenarios An IT technician accidentally deletes a critical database, causing a service outage. High demand Sudden spikes in demand can overwhelm systems that are not designed to handle such loads, leading to outages.

Software 290

Software Software Infrastructure Network 290

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. In supply chain management, connections between airports, warehouses, and retail aisles are critical for cost and time optimization. Enter graph databases.

Database 121

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 121

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Log analytics can determine whether the same service or function is consistently causing an application to not meet SLOs during peak season — for example, when a retailer offers an end-of-season sale, or a financial application is critical for closing out the year. Traditional databases help users and machines find data with a quick search.

Analytics 246

Analytics Storage Retail DevOps 246

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Log analytics can determine whether the same service or function is consistently causing an application to not meet SLOs during peak season — for example, when a retailer offers an end-of-season sale, or a financial application is critical for closing out the year. Traditional databases help users and machines find data with a quick search.

Analytics 245

Analytics Storage Retail DevOps 245

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

based financial services company has 15 unique brands; more than 58,000 employees; numerous retail businesses, banking and consumer services; and other financial products, such as credit cards, lending deals, and stockbroking. ” In many cases, indexed databases only provide access to a sample of statistical data summaries.

Analytics 246

Analytics Infrastructure Storage Architecture 246

Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

2022 CISO Report: Retail sector – report Dive deep into the state of runtime vulnerability management in retail and how to protect your brand. Meanwhile, traditional databases have demonstrated limitations in increasingly complex and distributed cloud-native environments.

Cloud 246

Cloud DevOps Open Source Retail 246

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2024

For example, deleting the database is not an expected outcome when the function provided is to update a user profile. Instead of relying on static patterns, Dynatrace Causal AI understands the desired outcome of the triggered action and the context of the environment hosting the service.

Analytics 304

Analytics AWS DevOps Cloud 304

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Seamlessly report and be alerted on non-topology-related custom metrics, using Dynatrace as a metric database. Because you can now seamlessly report non-topological metrics, you can now use Dynatrace as a metric database. This allows you to: Use auto-adaptive baselines for all your custom metrics.

Metrics 246

Metrics Analytics Storage Monitoring 246

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Updating graph databases with Cypher Green et al., Cypher is used in hundreds of production applications across many industry vertical domains, such as financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing and retails, logistics, government, and healthcare. VLDB’19. These have not been previously known in the Cypher community.

Database 70

Database Logistics Healthcare Retail 70

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Today, we added two important choices for customers running high performance apps in the cloud: support for Redis in Amazon ElastiCache and a new high memory database instance (db.cr1.8xlarge) for Amazon RDS. No single database architecture or solution can meet all of Amazon.com’s or our customers’ needs.

Cache 99

Cache Cloud Performance Retail 99

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. For example, when our retail customers contributed to create larger economies of scale for Amazon.com, we used the savings to lower pricing such that our customers could also benefit. Amazon DynamoDB â?? Expanding the Cloud â??

AWS 84

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 84

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 111

Internet Internet AWS Performance 111

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

We launched DynamoDB last year to address the need for a cloud database that provides seamless scalability, irrespective of whether you are doing ten transactions or ten million transactions, while providing rock solid durability and availability. DynamoDB stores information as database tables, which are collections of individual items.

Games 109

Games Scalability Database Retail 109

VoltDB

JANUARY 12, 2018

So, in the spirit of things, we’ve laid out a few New Year’s resolutions that all database professionals can take into account as they look to turn over a new leaf in 2018 and build on their successes. The post Database Resolutions for 2018 appeared first on VoltDB. Create Better, Real-Time Customer Experiences.

Database 40

Database Blockchain Healthcare Transportation 40

VoltDB

JANUARY 12, 2018

So, in the spirit of things, we’ve laid out a few New Year’s resolutions that all database professionals can take into account as they look to turn over a new leaf in 2018 and build on their successes. The post Database Resolutions for 2018 appeared first on VoltDB. Create Better, Real-Time Customer Experiences.

Database 40

Database Blockchain Healthcare Transportation 40

High Scalability

AUGUST 3, 2018

David Rosenthal : The margins on AWS, averaging 24.75% over the last twelve quarters, are what enables Amazon to run the US retail business averaging under 3% margin and the international business averaging -3.7% Alok Pathak : While both (Multi-AZ and Read replica) maintain a copy of database but they are different in nature.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Amazon ElastiCache embodies much of what makes fast data a reality for customers looking to process high volume data at incredible rates, faster than traditional databases can manage. Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple. Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching.

Games 96

Games Retail Latency Education 96

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. It’s not enough just to pick out interesting events from an aggregated data stream and then send them to a database for offline analysis using Spark. Walgreens has more than 9,000, and McDonald’s has more than 14,000 in the U.S.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. It’s not enough just to pick out interesting events from an aggregated data stream and then send them to a database for offline analysis using Spark. Walgreens has more than 9,000, and McDonald’s has more than 14,000 in the U.S.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. It’s not enough to just pick out interesting events from an aggregated data stream and then send them to a database for offline analysis using Spark. Walgreens has more than 9,000, and McDonald’s has more than 14,000 in the U.S.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For example, someone might web scrape all the product pages of a competitor’s retail site to harvest information about products being offered and current pricing to try to gain a competitive edge. We think of web scraping as a tool used to harvest web content for information analysis purposes, sometimes to the detriment of the site owner.

Website 108

Website Analytics Google Cache 108

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

For example, AWS customers use SQS for asynchronous communication pipelines, buffer queues for databases, asynchronous work queues, and moving latency out of highly responsive requests paths. Today, the SQS team is launching two important features â?? Long Polling and richer client functionality in the SQS SDK â??

Efficiency 84

Efficiency Cloud Games Scalability 84

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

If you have a large database of user information stored on your servers, consider introducing multi-factor identification. Retailers like JCPenny are taking full advantage of users’ smartphone cameras to add new functionality to their mobile apps such as virtual dressing rooms.

Development 101

Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

O'Reilly Software

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

For instance, the verbs on a retail site might include browsing, adding to a shopping cart, buying, and rating. Some of the operations exposed by API providers may also benefit from boilerplate implementations, such as database access or error messaging. You also have to decide how fine-grained and nested your RESTful API should be.

Development 69

Development Retail Traffic Virtualization 69

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Pagespeed Benchmarks - US Retail - LCP When you examine a waterfall, it's pretty obvious that TTFB is the long pole in the tent, pushing out render times for the page.

Servers 64

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 64

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

However, one thing should be obvious: to fill a prescription, you need to access many different kinds of data, in many different databases. The data available to our retail business is much more limited. The online business is information-rich; the retail business is information-poor. Most are subject to privacy regulations.

Games 141

Games Healthcare Processing Systems 141

VoltDB

JUNE 19, 2017

Successful implementation of a VR service could have massive implications for a number of industries, such as retail. Imagine virtual retail environments, where customers browse virtual shelves and products, and converse with customers who share interests and needs. These types of applications justify the cost of 5G.

Latency 40

Latency Retail Virtualization Hardware 40

VoltDB

JUNE 19, 2017

Successful implementation of a VR service could have massive implications for a number of industries, such as retail. Imagine virtual retail environments, where customers browse virtual shelves and products, and converse with customers who share interests and needs. These types of applications justify the cost of 5G.

Latency 40

Latency Retail Virtualization Hardware 40

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. These multiple “heads” are attached to the backend and database.

Code 90

Code Cache Mobile Retail 90

Rigor

MARCH 20, 2018

I recently was asked the following question by an online retailer: “Why should I invest in monitoring the user experience when I already have monitoring for our database, infrastructure, app server, and network?”. Or are you an eCommerce retailer?” They quickly understood my point. The Rise of Cloud Computing.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Retail Ecommerce Infrastructure 40

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. From the technical perspective, the following properties should be highlighted: All data is initially stored in the relational database, but this database is heavily loaded because it is a master record for many applications.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Take these statistics from Google’s industry benchmarks for mobile page speed : That same guide also goes into detail regarding the page speed, page weight, as well as additional insights on specific industries, such as automotive, technology, and retail. Static sites don’t require a backend or database and are much more simple to manage.

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Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 22, 2017

In classic Extract, transform, and load (ETL) model, we store entities in their corresponding application databases i.e. as rows in the relational tables. Then we perform frequent batch ETL from application databases to a data warehouse.

Big Data 40

Big Data Retail Storage Google 40

Tech News Gather

APRIL 2, 2023

The AI chatbot will use pre-existing information from your database, data fed to it by the user to decipher queries and communicate articulate responses. The healthcare, banking, and retail sectors are set to benefit most from AI chat bots.

Mobile 52

Mobile Development Healthcare Retail 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. The research of the time supported this. Business strategy changed in the 1990s, insisting that companies were better off focusing on "core competencies" while renting anything deemed non-core.

Retail 40

Retail Strategy Technology Technology 40