Retail

Zero Downtime: Meeting 2025 Retail Traffic Spikes

Zero Downtime: Meeting 2025 Retail Traffic Spikes

Online retail shopping reached a new all-time high in 2024, and records are expected to be smashed again this year. At the heart of every retail application is data. For many retailers, database modernization is essential for both survival and success. This blog examines the 2024 holiday shopping season, what we can learn from it, and how your database impacts performance and customer experiences. It also shares top strategies to deliver a successful 2025 shopping experience.

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Build a Retail Agent with MCP Toolbox, YugabyteDB, and Google ADK

Build a Retail Agent with MCP Toolbox, YugabyteDB, and Google ADK

Discover how you can integrate YugabyteDB’s Retail Analytics sample dataset with an MCP server (Google’s MCP Toolbox for Databases). We demonstrate how to define simple SQL tools using tools.yaml and illustrate how an Agent Development Kit (ADK) agent can discover and utilize these tools. All necessary files and a minimal ADK Python agent are provided, ready for you to copy, paste, and run locally!

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Spot the 6 Red Flags That Your Ecommerce Website Might Crash

Spot the 6 Red Flags That Your Ecommerce Website Might Crash

This blog highlights six moments that will increase the risk of an ecommerce website crash. Using examples, it illustrates the short- and long-term financial and reputational impact of such crashes, showing how by modernizing the data layer retailers can ensure site resilience, scalability, and consistent high performance and safeguard their share of the growing eCommerce market.

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