Tag Archives: black friday
Scaling the peaks of Black Friday, Bob Hope and how RichRelevance slays the holiday rush
Jan 2011 after the 2010 holiday season…. Still in the glow of 100% uptime, response rates around 80ms, 5.5K requests per second served at peak. We’re all sitting around in IT Ops excited, pumped and ecstatic for our performance. We’re beating our chests and basking in the glow of success. 5500 Requests per Second (RPS) … Continue Reading
Watching Amazon over the Black Friday Weekend
Though I don’t work at Amazon anymore, I am still a big fan of their business and all of their products. As a proud Amazon Prime member, if I need a single 99 cent black pen tomorrow, I can get it via next day air! This Black Friday weekend, I thought I’d reconnect with my … Continue Reading
Take a Cue from Paco Underhill – “Shop without fear”
I’ve had the immense privilege and pleasure of spending a good part of my year with the one and only Paco Underhill, as we met with hundreds of merchants and brands nationwide to share perspectives on the challenges and opportunities with cross-channel retailing. The overarching theme through all these presentations was tying together all the … Continue Reading
2009 Online Holiday Shopping Season Kick Off – A Retrospective and Some Perspective
The retailing community and the vendors that provide supporting roles, like RichRelevance, have spent the better part of this year gearing up for the make-or-break 24-hour marathon: Black Friday. While consumers haven’t completely abandoned the shopping mall experience, it’s clear that based on early results from the kick off of the holiday shopping season, the … Continue Reading
How richrelevance performed over Black Friday and Cyber Monday
At RichRelevance, we have been planning for the holiday shopping load since early summer. This was our first Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and since we provide recommendations for some big merchants, we knew this was going to be a critical test of our product architecture, infrastructure, and execution. Now that the weekend is behind … Continue Reading