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Tag: Ecommerce
Zalando Uses Machine Learning to Take the Guesswork Out of Shopping
While fashion is sometimes seen as rarified and impenetrable, the reality is that most people engage with it on a daily basis. After all, everyone has to put on an outfit each morning—and those clothes have to be chosen and purchased somewhere. In Europe, that place is often Zalando.
Read MoreHow GetYourGuide Makes Sightseeing Personal
In 2009, Johannes Reck, a student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, arrived in Beijing one day earlier than his friend and classmate, Tao Tao. Tao, who knew Beijing well, was able to serve as a local guide to Reck once he arrived, and the trip was a success. Without Tao, however, Reck found himself at a loss as to where to go or what to do.
Read MoreEND.’s New Platform Runs On AWS Fargate At Its Core
At END. we’re constantly working to improve the way our engineering department operates. Our goal is simple: to empower the team so they can get stuff done without obstruction or interference. Anything to make things easier, faster, more reliable—and if that means tinkering with some new technology along the way, even better. Until recently, deployments were one of the biggest pain points for our engineers and with a two-person DevOps team we inevitably became a massive bottleneck when it came to go-live. We knew we needed to find a better way of doing things, and as existing AWS users, AWS Fargate seemed like the natural way forward.
Read MoreHow Dollar Shave Club Keeps Their Grooming Products Affordable Using CircleCI and AWS
At face value, Dollar Shave Club looks like a fairly simple service. Users come to the site and are able to search through various grooming products, such as shower gels, toothpastes, or, of course, razors. The simplicity and ease of navigation is no mistake, however, with the DSC engineering team focusing heavily on creating a seamless user experience that showcases the company’s affordable products.
Read MoreHow Clicktale Uses AWS to Power a Successful Cyber Monday
Cyber Monday generates big sales for online retailers but it also generates big insights. As customers browse, retailers gain all kinds of new information about customer behavior and how the experience on their websites attracts—or repels—potential buyers. This is where experience analytics startup Clicktale comes in.
Read MoreHow Casper Delivers from New York to the North Pole
For shoppers who buy a mattress from Casper, all they have to do is hit the “place order” button and a few days later, a mattress shows up on their doorstep. Easy. But for Site Reliability Engineer John Spencer and the rest of his extended team, getting a mattress from order to delivery is a far more complicated process.
Read MoreAfterShip CEO Teddy Chan on Future Plans
AfterShip is a SaaS solution that helps online retailers keep track of all their packages in one place.
Read MoreHow Glossier Leveraged Tech to Build a Next-gen Cosmetics Company
From the beginning, the Glossier team set out to build a great technology company. Creating a beauty brand was of course also necessary, but that almost seemed like table stakes, per Bryan Mahoney, Glossier’s Chief Technology Officer.
Read MoreHow GOAT Uses Cloud Tech to Scale Black Friday Operations
Based in Los Angeles, GOAT is the largest marketplace for buying and selling authenticated sneakers.
Read MoreMaking Space from Thin Air: GotSpot Connects Entrepreneurs to Much-Needed Places
GotSpot is a digital marketplace that connects small enterprises in need of short-term space to existing brick-and-mortar businesses who have available, non-traditional space that could be better maximized. Think Airbnb, but for commercial spaces.
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