Insights

Ilya Katsov
Apr 06, 2020 • 18 min read

A rapid response to COVID-19 supply chain and market shocks: Emerge from the crisis stronger

Practical recommendations to technology and business leaders on how advanced data analytics and engineering capabilities can be leveraged to rapidly and efficiently respond to the COVID-19 disruption....

Max Martynov
Dec 30, 2019 • 11 min read

Digital transformation requires new technology partnerships and Agile co-innovation

A successful digital transformation benefits from new technology partnerships with Agile co-innovation companies. These companies bring a fresh perspective of co-creation through strategic partnerships, replacing the old concept of outsourcing or outstaffing....

Launch new digital services faster with distributed teams and agile co-creation delivery model

Victoria Livschitz
Mar 30, 2020 • 7 min read

Unified commerce: Making the most of a true omnichannel experience

Max Martynov
Feb 03, 2020 • 7 min read

Delivering digital transformation: Why automation and creating a high-performance engineering culture are vital to digital success

Ezra Berger
Jan 21, 2020 • 6 min read

Art.com helps customers find art they love with visual search

Eugene Steinberg
Nov 15, 2018 • 4 min read

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Data Science & AI

Ilya Katsov
May 15, 2019 • 17 min read

Building a Next Best Action model using reinforcement learning

Modern customer analytics and personalization systems use a wide variety of methods that help to reveal and quantify customer preferences and intent, making marketing messages, ads, offers, and recommendations more relevant and engaging. However, most of these methods are designed to optimize only one immediate interaction with a customer and...

Customer2Vec: Representation learning for customer analytics and personalization

Ilya Katsov
Mar 16, 2020 • 25 min read

Big Data

Max Martynov
Oct 29, 2019 • 7 min read

Why you need data quality automation to make data-driven decisions with confidence

The cascade effect caused by the lack of data quality monitoring can become severe enough to impact the entire enterprise negatively....

How to create a serverless real-time analytics platform: a case study

Ivan Petrushin
Jan 16, 2018 • 12 min read

Delivering actionable insights in real-time by moving from batch to stream processing: a digital media case study

Dmitry Mezhensky
Nov 14, 2017 • 7 min read

Top business drivers of real-time analytics and machine learning in retail

Victoria Livschitz
Oct 31, 2017 • 6 min read

How to achieve in-stream data deduplication for real-time bidding: a case study

Dmitry Yaraev
Sep 26, 2017 • 7 min read

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Cloud and DevOps

Max Martynov
May 08, 2019 • 8 min read

DevOps 2.0 is here, and it’s time to put end-to-end continuous delivery pipelines behind every project.

Implementing end-to-end continuous delivery at the enterprise level has always been a challenge. It is a complex problem that requires simultaneous improvements across an organization’s structure, culture, application architecture, infrastructure and change management processes. This challenge is made more difficult by the fact that focusing improvement on only one...

Developing a modular pipeline library to improve DevOps collaboration

Sergei Parshev
Dec 20, 2018 • 12 min read

More details on building cloud-portable DevOps stack with Mesos and Marathon

Sergey Plastinkin
Jan 03, 2017 • 7 min read

DevOps stack for In-Stream Processing Service using AWS, Docker, Mesos, Marathon, Ansible and Tonomi

Sergey Plastinkin
Dec 13, 2016 • 9 min read

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Search

Eugene Steinberg
Jan 23, 2020 • 10 min read

Not your father’s search engine: a brief history of retail search

Since the dawn of ecommerce in the end of the nineties, online retailers have coined a famous “If they can’t find ‘em, they can’t buy ‘em” motto, which stands today as fresh as ever. Online shoppers have a lot of choices, and their patience is getting ever shorter:...

How to replatform Endeca rules to Solr

Stanislav Livotov
Apr 07, 2020 • 8 min read

Boosting product discovery with semantic search

Dmitry Sobolev
Mar 13, 2020 • 15 min read

Smart autocomplete for Replacements.com drives revenue

Eugene Steinberg
Mar 12, 2020 • 2 min read

Tiered machine learned ranking improves relevance for the retail search

Aleksandr Vasilev
Mar 03, 2020 • 8 min read

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UI and Mobile

Max Martynov
Jul 24, 2019 • 6 min read

Android or iOS for retail? You need both!

Develop apps for both platforms using the cross-platform development tool, Flutter Many retailers face a tough decision: should their mobile retail shopping app support Android or iOS? They feel their limited resources cannot be stretched to build and support both platforms, so they often pick just one. Some retailers may...

Evolution of CMS and overview of modern DXP platforms

Ihor Syrov
Mar 06, 2020 • 14 min read

A low mobile app rating leaves money on the table

Max Martynov
Sep 19, 2019 • 4 min read

A low crash rate is the key to a high mobile app rating

Max Martynov
Aug 29, 2019 • 4 min read

When life gives you lemons: Analyzing negative reviews to improve your mobile app

Jiaye Pan
Aug 21, 2019 • 6 min read

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Quality Assurance

Mikhail Klokov
Sep 05, 2016 • 2 min read

Challenges of Continuous Performance Testing

Implementing Continuous Performance Testing doesn't have to be hard. Grid Dynamics has many years of CPT experience and can help you implement it smoothly....

Yes, you can have it both ways: in-sprint QE automation improves code and accelerates development speed

Maksym Usichenko
Oct 03, 2018 • 6 min read

Continuous Performance Testing (CPT) with Jagger

Mikhail Klokov
Oct 04, 2017 • 12 min read

Six design principles of Continuous Performance Testing

Victoria Livschitz
Oct 11, 2016 • 8 min read

How to extend CI pipelines with Continuous Performance Testing

Victor Samoylov
Sep 21, 2016 • 3 min read

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Omnichannel Commerce

Max Martynov
Nov 08, 2018 • 12 min read

How to build a pricing engine for e-commerce promotions and offers

The convergence of in-store and online retail operations in recent years has put significant new demands on the management of pricing, offers, and promotions as compared to pre-omnichannel times. The outdated, simplistic approaches to determine the price of products and promotional offerings are still prevalent in the industry, leading to...

Eugene Steinberg
Jun 20, 2018 • 7 min read

Grid Genie: the beginning of conversational commerce

Retail is on the brink of yet another technological breakthrough. AI devices like Siri, Alexa, Google Home, and virtual assistants of all kinds are rapidly becoming trusted and dependable aides to many people. Technology companies led by Amazon, Google, Apple, and Microsoft are rushing to grab the market of AI...