All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. A business unit can now go out and create their own data warehouse in the cloud of a size and speed that exactly matches what they need and are willing to pay for.

Analytics 129

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 129

Speed Curve

AUGUST 6, 2024

Here's an example from a retailer's category page… the promotional banner at the bottom of the menu is larger than the product cards and will become LCP when the menu is shown. We're saving a deeper overview of our new pipeline for another post.

Metrics 54

Metrics Retail Network Processing 54

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

The problems fostered by social media, search, and recommendation algorithms was never an engineering issue, but one of financial incentives (of profit growth) not aligning with algorithms’ safe, effective, and equitable deployment. As the saying goes : history doesn’t necessarily repeat itself but it does rhyme.

Social Media 90

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 90

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. This also implies that you don’t have to spend additional time and money on creating a PWA to suit various devices, greatly speeding up time-to-market. This primarily regards its UXUI and speed, so a progressive web app can be a solution to consider.

Code 75

Code Cache Retail Mobile 75

Abstracta

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Everything you need to know to technically prepare your website for Black Friday and Cyber Monday While it’s coming down to the wire for retailers to get their. The post Black Friday 2020: Avoid E-Commerce Site Crashes and Slowness appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services.

Retail 52

Retail Website Testing Software 52

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

> Speed Index (Synthetic). Speed Index was an important metric when it first came out several years ago. However, because Speed Index is dependent on how the page is built, it's not a one-size-fits-all metric. Engineers/devs? Otherwise, it might be time to say goodbye to these. > Who is looking at this data?

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 133

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

But groundbreaking digital business models need pioneers: creators, forward-looking thinkers and inventors who don't hesitate to leave the beaten path, embody ownership, and who understand how to translate customers' wishes into superb new products, services and solutions that evolve with speed.

Social Media 80

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 80

Testsigma

JUNE 26, 2021

Globally, organizations across banking, retail, automotive, healthcare, etc., Speed: One of the best advantages of moving to codeless automation testing is the speed at which you can manage your development pace. For instance, Testsigma — a codeless automation testing tool lets you write automated tests at 5x speed.

Testing 57

Testing Testing Tools Automotive Scalability 57

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Here is our (ever-growing!) Rick Byers.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e. One thing stand-out to me is being intentional and practical about your engineering organisation design. Let's take an example of retail as a domain of interest. And there lies the problem.

Engineering 61

Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. Five-nines availability has long been the goal of site reliability engineers (SREs) to provide system availability that is “always on.” Site reliability engineering teams often measure system availability in percentages in the pursuit of 100% uptime.

Infrastructure 178

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 178

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

This provides Greenplum deployments with a huge performance boost over in-memory systems that need enough memory to store their data, or non-RDBMS based systems that are in-memory processing engines that allocate RAM for each concurrent query. Let’s walk through the top use cases for Greenplum: Analytics. How to Get Started.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Web Performance for Retailers. Industry speed benchmarks for Japan. We have a number of SpeedCurve users who want an ongoing understanding of how popular Japanese websites perform, so we added Japan to our Industry Page Speed Benchmarks dashboard. The Five Pillars of Performance Engineering at Insider. SpeedCurve recipes.

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

For that very reason, IT leadership often defaults to throwing more engineers at any problem. As a result, many teams have 18 developers and only one QA,” said Heather Munoz, Head of the Retail Brokerage Practice at E*Trade, on a recent podcast interview. . That’s virtually impossible without real-time systems data and analytics. .

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation 52

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

For that very reason, IT leadership often defaults to throwing more engineers at any problem. As a result, many teams have 18 developers and only one QA,” said Heather Munoz, Head of the Retail Brokerage Practice at E*Trade, on a recent podcast interview. . That’s virtually impossible without real-time systems data and analytics. .

Healthcare 40

Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple. To give you some examples, I've been talking to a few gaming companies lately, and their conversations are about the need for speed and flexibility in scaling, both in and out.

Games 108

Games Retail Latency Education 108

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Individual pages can be spot checked via the CrUX API or tools such as Page Speed Insights But as Cliff's already covered in How to find (and fix!) The Performance panel can be overwhelming – even for experienced engineers – as it exposes how much work the browser is doing to load pages or handle interactions.

Analytics 91

Analytics Processing Google Mobile 91

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

However, we also knew that building a distributed database that has unlimited scale and maintains predictably high performance while providing rich and flexible query capabilities, is one of the hardest problems in database development, and will take a lot of effort and invention from our team of distributed database engineers to solve.

Games 125

Games Scalability Database Retail 125

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

In support of Amazon Prime Day 2017, the biggest day in Amazon retail history, DynamoDB served over 12.9 In addition, DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache further speeds up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds and can continue to do so at millions of requests per second.

Internet 124

Internet Internet AWS Performance 124

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

For example, all browsers on iOS (including Chrome) use WebKit as the underlying engine and will be matched to the respective Safari-specific Browserslist query. Progressively Enhanced Speed. One of browserslist-useragent ’s functions is to ensure that platform quirks are taken into account while matching user agents.

Code 59

Code Retail Mobile Website 59