Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. Instead, to speed up response times, applications are now processing most data at the network’s perimeter, closest to the data’s origin. The nightmare scenario for online retailers during peak periods, such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday, is a system crash.

Infrastructure 246

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 246

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 20, 2020

Fast-forward 25 years, Amazon's retail business has more than 175 fulfillment centers (FC) worldwide with over 250,000 full-time associates shipping millions of items per day. That's why, in 2019, they had an idea: Build a data lake that can support one of the largest logistics networks on the planet.

Big Data 192

Big Data Logistics Retail Government 192

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2024

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.

Energy 241

Energy Logistics Healthcare Retail 241

Dynatrace

AUGUST 10, 2021

And we’re talking about accessing the details of so many crashes, that even our most demanding customers like international banking institutes, global car manufacturers, multi-national retail chains or world-spanning recreational networks can cover the timeframes that matter to their businesses.

Mobile 246

Mobile Retail Monitoring Games 246

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

With DEM solutions, organizations can operate over on-premise network infrastructure or private or public cloud SaaS or IaaS offerings. 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).

Monitoring 246

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 246

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Mobile retail e-commerce spending in the U. The growing amount of data processed at the network edge, where failures are more difficult to prevent, magnifies complexity. As a result, site reliability has emerged as a critical success metric for many organizations. trillion by 2027, up from $800 billion in 2021.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 246

Speed Curve

JANUARY 27, 2025

And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. Making your pages as small as possible is in the best interest of your users who don't have access to fast networks and devices. In other words, images comprised almost 60% of the total page weight.

Mobile 97

Mobile Best Practices Google Metrics 97

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

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. The importance of the network. Each of those workloads have unique requirements when it comes to the network. APIs are forever. No gatekeepers.

AWS 126

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 126

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

In supply chain management, connections between airports, warehouses, and retail aisles are critical for cost and time optimization. A concrete example is generating a product recommendation based on purchase interests of a user’s friends, where the relevant social connections are a small subset of the total network.

Database 119

Database Logistics Availability Storage 119

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

To this, they responded that as they were in the fashion retail business , they weren’t doing containers and didn’t think they’ll ever make it to become cloud-native. Who manage s the networking aspects? But how will you set up the communication? How do you make this system resilient and fault-tolerant?

Google 173

Google DevOps Ecommerce Cloud 173

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

million : new image/caption training set; 32,408,715 : queries sent to Pwned Passwords; 53% : Memory ICs Total 2018 Semi Capex; 11 : story Facebook datacenter prison in Singapore; $740,357 : ave cost of network downtime; Quotable Quotes: @BenedictEvans : Recorded music: $18 billion. Retail: $20 trillion. They'll love you even more.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

Speed Curve

MARCH 17, 2025

Some of you may remember the Amazon outage of 2013, when the retail behemoth went down for 40 minutes. Some participants experienced normal speeds, while others experienced load times that were artificially throttled with a 500-millisecond network delay.

Metrics 66

Metrics Website Airlines Speed 66

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. We look forward to broadening this portfolio to include more services over the next several quarters.

AWS 154

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 154

Speed Curve

APRIL 27, 2022

But as you can see in these filmstrips of Wiggle, a UK cycling retailer, hiding the page can have a dramatic impact on a visitor's experience: Comparison of a site loading with (top) and without (bottom) the anti-flicker snippet enabled. the speed of the network the device is connected to. before the hero image.

Performance 145

Performance C++ Google Retail 145

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Photo by Freepik Part of the answer is this: You have a lot of control over the design and code for the pages on your site, plus a decent amount of control over the first and middle mile of the network your pages travel over. modems aren't available for retail purchase yet. Note that the specs for DOCSIS 4.0 After DOCSIS 4.0

Hardware 52

Hardware Internet Internet Speed 52

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 18, 2020

I completed a combined math bachelors + masters program, but without any professional guidance, networking, or internships, I was entirely lost. I had the piece of paper, but what next? I held plenty of jobs as a student, but now I needed a career.

Analytics 139

Analytics Retail Education Engineering 139

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

To this, they responded that as they were in the fashion retail business , they weren’t doing containers and didn’t think they’ll ever make it to become cloud-native. Who manage s the networking aspects? But how will you set up the communication? How do you make this system resilient and fault-tolerant?

Google 130

Google DevOps Ecommerce Cloud 130

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Certain parts of our architecture used to run on relational databases but we just couldn’t scale them fast enough to meet the demands of our fast growing online retail business, particularly during the holiday shopping seasons. As the amount of data stored increases constantly, the amount of memory needed also goes up.

Cache 97

Cache Cloud Performance Retail 97

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

According to Chris Zadeh, the CEO of Ohpen, large Dutch banks are already moving their entire retail banking platforms to the cloud using Ohpen core banking technology running on top of AWS.

Cloud 100

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 100

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites.

Mobile 145

Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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. Home pages of 10 leading sites in the US and the EU, in each of the following industries: Auto, Finance, Media, Retail, Tech, and Travel. (We’ll

Benchmarking 138

Benchmarking Speed Performance Media 138

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

These algorithms save everyone time and money: by helping users navigate through thousands of products to find the ones with the highest quality and the lowest price, and by expanding the market reach of suppliers through Amazon’s delivery infrastructure and immense customer network.

Social Media 127

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 127

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2017

French companies are using AWS to innovate in a secure way across industries as diverse as energy, financial services, manufacturing, media, pharmaceuticals and health sciences, retail, and more. The opening of the AWS EU (Paris) Region adds to our continued investment in France. Our AWS EU (Paris) Region is open for business now.

AWS 84

AWS Artificial Intelligence Education Energy 84

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

SpeedCurve's Industry Benchmarks dashboard – which tracks the performance of top sites in retail, media, travel, and other industries – is a good place to start. In this next set of charts, I looked at a month's worth of anonymized real user monitoring (RUM) data for four different retail sites.

Retail 88

Retail Benchmarking Google Metrics 88

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 Benchmarking Retail 64

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 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.

Internet 110

Internet Internet AWS Performance 110

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We track LEGO.com, along with a handful of other leading ecommerce sites, in our public-facing Retail Benchmarks dashboard , which I encourage you to check out. Are you using a content delivery network (CDN) to bring elements like images closer to your users, so that delivery times are faster? Are images optimized?

Performance 78

Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 78

The Morning Paper

JUNE 18, 2019

Control loop SLOs express the active management actions a provider will take, e.g. shedding of low-priority load will occur on over-utilised network links. As a simple example, an SLO around network throughput might rely on the customer running software capable of driving the network fast enough. Why are SLOs so hard to define?

Metrics 79

Metrics Cloud Google Network 79

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 16, 2019

More than 100 companies are involved with IBM’s Food Trust network, including many consumer packaged goods companies and grocery retailers. Consumers, retailers, and food safety organizations are demanding more transparency, and blockchain is looking to be a promising solution for this complex ecosystem.

Blockchain 74

Blockchain Retail Innovation Healthcare 74

Edge Perspectives

JANUARY 21, 2019

Let me start by clarifying that the transformation I’m focused on isn’t the transformation involved in moving from one business to another (let’s say, moving from being a retailer to becoming a clothing manufacturer). Organization: Shift from departments and hierarchies to workgroups and networks.

Innovation 104

Innovation Scalability Mobile Efficiency 104

Particular Software

JANUARY 18, 2021

What if the end boss is a network error, power outage, concurrency conflict, or even squirrels ? Real-life end bosses Let’s get a bit more concrete with some simple pseudo-code for a retail order processing system: // Some API invoked by the customer (e.g.

Games 64

Games Retail Network Code 64

VoltDB

JUNE 19, 2017

While current network speeds may be enough to meet the latency requirements of 4G applications, 5G will necessitate a change, if only because the continental US is ~60ms wide, meaning that a datacenter on one coast communicating with another datacenter on the opposite coast will be too slow for 5G. This requires 1 ms network latency.

Latency 40

Latency Retail Virtualization Hardware 40

VoltDB

JUNE 19, 2017

While current network speeds may be enough to meet the latency requirements of 4G applications, 5G will necessitate a change, if only because the continental US is ~60ms wide, meaning that a datacenter on one coast communicating with another datacenter on the opposite coast will be too slow for 5G. This requires 1 ms network latency.

Latency 40

Latency Retail Virtualization Hardware 40

Rigor

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

As a retailer, you know that conversion rates are the lifeblood of your business. One of the ways we helped that retailer achieve an increase in their conversion rate was by helping them get their third parties in check. You need network throttling for that. Here’s why you should make time for Team Rigor.

Retail 40

Retail Ecommerce Website Performance Mobile 40

Tech News Gather

JUNE 30, 2023

Additionally, the ESRI Developer Network (EDN) offers access to documentation, sample code, forums, and technical support, fostering a collaborative community for knowledge exchange.

Technology 52

Technology Technology Development Retail 52

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” The data available to our retail business is much more limited. As a trend, we’re openly skeptical about Hyperautomation.

Games 141

Games Healthcare Processing Systems 141

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

Server rendering is also cool—even if that’s just how we say “send HTML over the network” these days. I accessed the RSS feed app running on my local network on each device to the same page where the mobile nav toggling code could be run. Because of this, network performance was not a factor in my measurements. Startup time.

Performance 104

Performance Mobile Servers Code 104