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"Walmart doesn't have live feeds". Maybe it does. HN comments: > the guy that ran the IT department for Walmart gave a presentation on how they got real-time d
by ash 17y ago
"Walmart doesn't have live feeds". Maybe it does. HN comments:
> the guy that ran the IT department for Walmart gave a presentation on how they got real-time data on each store.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1109385 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1109385
> Any book on Walmart will talk about their IT systems. Their main operations room looks like NASA's mission control. I recall that Walmart can redirect trucks on the road via satellite to different stores whenever demand suddenly fluctuates.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1109777 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1109777
- derefr 17y agoNotice my careful use of "sites" in both cases, though. Real-time messaging and infrastructure in a non-web (that is, hub-and-spoke centralizable) context has been well-researched and developed for years. NoSQL is specifically a movement toward using that research in many-to-many publisher:listener configurations.