All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Mid-sized Organisations – Haven Power , Holiday Extras , ">Exeter Family Friendly , ">Royal Opera House , ">Total Jobs , Retail Companies – Shop Direct , Nisa Retail , Kurt Geiger , Sport Pursuit. Enterprise Companies – Unilever , ATOC , National Rail Enquiries.

AWS 167

AWS Retail Entertainment IoT 167

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% Stacey Higginbotham : a startup in France called GreenWaves Technologies has built a dedicated chip for the Internet of Things.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The cloud-hosted version would need to be: Scalable – The service would need to support hundreds of thousands, or even millions of AWS customers, each supporting their own internet-scale applications. Today, DynamoDB powers the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications that would overburden traditional relational databases.

Internet 111

Internet Internet AWS Performance 111

DZone

JANUARY 14, 2023

Artificial intelligence and machine learning already have some impressive use cases for industries like retail, banking, or transportation. In this article, we will look at our own research on how to make the operations of internet providers more effective.

Network 130

Network Artificial Intelligence Transportation Retail 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2019

One recent public example is Zalando, a German retailer. A lot of websites have been optimized for Internet Explorer 7 , so in many companies, Internet Explorer 11 is still the standard browser (with IE7 compatibility mode). Customers enjoy using your digital channels more and buy more from your company.

Retail 37

Retail Mobile Internet Internet 37

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. For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it.

Analytics 109

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 109

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's most forward-thinking businesses. All around us we see that the AWS capabilities foster a culture of experimentation with businesses of all sizes.

AWS 155

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 155

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

They're concerned about internet security, so they'e also running antivirus software. They think they have high-speed internet because they're paying their service provider for it, but they're using an eight-year-old modem. The number of internet users in your house could increase your download speed needs by 2X or more.

Hardware 52

Hardware Internet Internet Speed 52

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. Recent Entries. Amazon DynamoDB â??

AWS 84

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 84

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed. Advertisements have been an integral part of retail for many decades and anytime we include them they are clearly marked as ‘Sponsored’. Open source software enabled it to escape from under the thumb of the PC era’s dominant monopoly.

Social Media 127

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 127

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Food Trust is a blockchain ecosystem that covers more than 100 organizations, including Carrefour and the top four grocery retailers in the U.S. Much like the Internet, how you use the technology depends on your perspective and objectives. Where is the strategic business value? Blockchains are a multi-function, multi-use tool.

Blockchain 80

Blockchain IoT Logistics Internet 80

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. It can receive telemetry from retail stores over the Internet using event delivery systems such as Azure IoT Event Hub, AWS, Kafka, and REST, and it can respond back to the retail stores in milliseconds.

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 can receive telemetry from retail stores over the Internet using event delivery systems such as Azure IoT Event Hub, AWS, Kafka, and REST, and it can respond back to the retail stores in milliseconds.

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 can receive telemetry from retail stores over the Internet using event delivery systems such as Azure IoT Event Hub, AWS, Kafka, and REST, and it can respond back to the retail stores in milliseconds.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Today, I want to focus on helping app developers who have chosen to develop their apps on AWS and have in the past developed some of the seminal apps of our times on AWS, such as Netflix, AirBnB, or Pinterest or created internet connected devices powered by AWS such as Alexa and Dropcam.

AWS 153

AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Mobile 153

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

Now that nearly everyone with internet access is web literate, developers need to start literally thinking outside of the box to hold the attention of the user. 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

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Dropcam tells us that they adopted DynamoDB for seamless scalability and performance as they continue to innovate on their cloud based monitoring platform which has grown to become one of the largest video platforms on the internet today.

Games 109

Games Scalability Database Retail 109

Tech News Gather

JULY 14, 2022

Previously, with the help of the internet, various brands’ websites conducted the business. Transform the experience of retail business. Mobile apps transform the retail business and help retailers go ahead of the customer’s expectations. These apps are handy, and they can access these apps from anywhere.

Mobile 52

Mobile Development Retail Small Business 52

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2014

By comparison, well established businesses in industries like air travel or retail banking are expected to be predictable. Retail firms are not seeing their businesses grow rapidly because of technology, they're seeing their businesses change underneath them because of it. Prima facie , he appeared to be the sage of Silicon Valley.

Social Media 40

Social Media Retail Ecommerce Media 40

Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

My journey into performance started in the late 1990s, while I was working for an elearning provider and discovering the challenges of delivering rich content over the internet. For about half that time I worked freelance, and the other half for Site Confidence / NCC Group in the UK. I think that was the point I became hooked!

Retail 52

Retail Internet Internet Education 52

The Morning Paper

JUNE 18, 2019

The VM is reachable from the Internet? It also treats all outages as equal, whereas an outage on Black Friday for a retailer is much worse than an outage on a quiet day of the year. On what granularity (seconds, minutes, calendar months, rolling 30 days,…)? What is ‘up’? The VM is provisioned? The VM is running an OS?

Metrics 79

Metrics Cloud Google Network 79

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. Hence, this feature is also not a perk of only traditional apps.

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.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Retail Ecommerce Infrastructure 40

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

In the years leading up to 2000, there was aggressive spend on technology: insulation against fears of the Y2K bug (legacy software and hardware with time functions that wouldn't properly roll over to 01/01/2000) as well as development of new business and consumer technology to exploit what was then nascent internet technology.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2019

By way of example, at the time the internet travel booking business had a take rate of somewhere between 5 and 10% of the value of the travel services they were selling; intermediaries had a take rate of a tiny fraction of a percent of the value of the product order they were submitting.

FinTech 40

FinTech Strategy Retail Innovation 40

Dynatrace

JULY 19, 2024

The global impact has affected almost every major industry, resulting in closed bank branches , ground stops on flights , failures for retail point-of-sale devices, and, unfortunately, much more. Many organizations are struggling to determine the extent of the issue, and where dependencies exist with those impacted machines.

Airlines 334

Airlines Servers Retail Monitoring 334

O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Second, the free form text formats and protocols that we’re accustomed to may be too informal and error prone for capturing and reporting facts at Internet scale.

Social Media 145

Social Media Media Internet Internet 145

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Author of the Pocket Guide to Web Performance and co-author of Using WebPageTest , Andy is an independent web performance consultant in the UK who has helped many leading retailers, newspapers and financial companies make their sites faster. He is a co-organizer of the London Web Performance meetup.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Interlude: What we see in our data iPhones are responsible for the majority of traffic for US-based sites, which means they're the primary source of revenue for many online retailers. This is not the case in other countries, such as India, where usage is completely the opposite. SpeedCurve RUM data from November 2024 So, what's the problem?

Mobile 52

Mobile Retail Energy Metrics 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Learn how remote sensing, Internet of Things, and AI technologies on AWS can be used to detect and quantify methane sources, offering a cost-effective and efficient approach to scalable environmental monitoring. Effectively managing and reducing methane emissions is crucial for climate mitigation efforts.

AWS 98

AWS Energy Lambda Government 98