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0 pointsbell-cot1mo ago0 comments

My point was that the other stores do, too. Or 90-ish %.

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skeeter20201mo ago

I remember a story on Walmart's data analysis capacity being something like 2 years of line item data for a customer. I've read numbers that suggest 10PB / day ingested from their ecommerce operations and 2-3 PB/hr data processing. Pretty incredible.

bell-cotOP1mo ago

For modern ecommerce, figurative recording every twitch of your mouse in their store, I'd believe that.

But to save only the "SKU, qty., unit price, date" receipt info - which you would need to process tariff refunds - that'd be maybe 16 bytes per receipt line? To hit even 1TB/day, you'd need a billion customers, each buying 64 items. On that one day.

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bell-cotOP1mo ago

For modern ecommerce, figurative recording every twitch of your mouse in their store, I'd believe that.

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