Month: July 2016

Japanese yam. It is baked in the oven, then with some butter… simply delicious. It’s like a potato, but sweet. In this form, it closely resembles a sweet potato, although botanically they are quite different plants.

This time, read the report from the Great Wall store. I decided not to repeat myself and photograph fruits and vegetables that were in the previous Lotte Plaza. Almost under each photo, there is the name of the product and its price.

In this huge supermarket, there is everything except for normal groceries. We are now heading to Harris Teeter to buy cheese, milk, kefir, and other items that are barely or not at all available here

It’s interesting to fantasize about what an online store for physical goods might look like in 10 years and to compare it with how I see it now.

I see it this way: the online store has neither its own warehouses, nor its delivery service, nor its technical team. Everything is external. Offers are placed on marketplaces – automatically, just pay. Creating your own site becomes too expensive a venture, since the banking system, legislation, taxes, globalization, and much more require serious investments. Effectively, all internet stores that are built from scratch are marketplaces, because otherwise they won’t break even or become popular (customers would rather go to marketplaces).

Goods are placed in large warehouses, directly from the supplier. The warehouses are fully automated; distribution via pickup points is fully automated, and pickup points operate without people. There are only people involved in sales and marketing. Probably, there will be fully automated pricing with the parameters “seller’s appetite”/risks and warehouse replenishment. That is, the business itself will be automated. For those who do not want/cannot get into the details, standard settings (profits, risks) will be sufficient. For those who want to manage, there will be several levels of advanced modes, up to completely manual control. And it’s always possible to switch to autopilot.

There’s a huge market for creating custom branded goods based on semi-finished products with their own marketplaces. All these people know how to work with central warehouses in such a way that you wouldn’t notice it. Salespeople are literally playing a game – launch a new product for sale and see what happens. Then, they either discontinue it or upgrade it (change components).

People begin to play with internet sales just as they now play with stocks, i.e., anyone can become the seller of a new product or the author of a new brand for a small amount of money. Larger companies order non-standard functionality/design of pages from marketplaces to stand out even more. Companies like Amazon become purely marketplaces, operators of online trade, that is, they themselves do not engage in purchasing or delivery.

In addition, a financial market forms around these marketplaces. There, you can invest money in a product/company/direction and earn income. What such a shareholder can influence is strictly automated and depends on the amount of investment.

If everything happens as I imagine, the market where I earn money will disappear. But a new one will appear, with marketplaces, where all accumulated knowledge and experience will be useful.

5km /5.16. Hills. Very hot, 27 degrees in the shade. Couldn’t have run a ten-kilometer..

https://www.strava.com/activities/635219787/shareable_images/map_based?hl=en-US&v=1468076573

Well done, Pinocchio and Eminem! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIbY-1b96ug

We got a new Keurig capsule coffee machine. There are three types of coffee and 10 types of everything else nearby: tea, cocoa, hot chocolate, cider. That’s how popular coffee is here 🙂

Liza draws at night. Every morning I see something new

A screenshot that says a lot. By the number of results. Their content. Dates.

Interestingly, operators are required to store phone conversations, but nowhere does it say in what quality? What’s to stop them from compressing them so much that they take up very little space and are barely, but discernibly, intelligible? After all, they do make mandatory inscriptions on advertisements in tiny letters, and somehow everyone copes with that.

Or consider internet traffic. Some of it cannot be decrypted at all. If something can’t be decrypted, why not compress it to (hypothetically) three bytes? Either way, a data retrieval request will only show binary garbage.

New post on my blog. I managed to create a separate cluster from Hybris for promotion calculation.

In the latest version of Hybris, they introduced a new promotions engine, built on rules. There is a convenient interface where you can construct complex rules with intricate conditions and publish them on the site immediately.

But there’s a catch – the engine is only integrated into the shopping cart. And a few minor places and the call center software. I set myself the task of calculating promotions for each item on the search page and category page.

Simply calling the functionality twenty times won’t work. Firstly, there are some issues with interfaces, but even if those are resolved, the calculation would be too slow. To make the page loading time somewhat acceptable, it would be necessary to increase the number of servers, which with Hybris isn’t the best option, as in most cases licenses are sold per CPU.

Link – video proof-of-concept and technical details.

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https://hybrismart.com/2016/07/05/distributed-promotion-calculation-cluster-promo-as-a-service/