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Insights on building, scaling, and enforcing real-time decisions in modern data-driven systems.
In June, in the middle of the World Cup, Jai Rajaraman of Ocient and I presented a webinar with STL Partners. We built it around a fan who commutes to…
The gap nobody budgets for Financial services has never been better at detecting fraud. Models are accurate, scores arrive in milliseconds, and AI investment keeps climbing. Yet losses climb with…
In the first part of this series, I argued that Databricks and Snowflake are not walking away from Apache Kafka. They are targeting a narrower and more commercially interesting problem,…
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What Turns an Agentic AI Recommendation Into an Automated Network Decision?
In June, in the middle of the World Cup, Jai Rajaraman of Ocient and I presented a webinar with STL…
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The Decisioning Layer in Financial Services: Why a Late Decision Is a Wrong Decision
The gap nobody budgets for Financial services has never been better at detecting fraud. Models are accurate, scores arrive in…
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The Kafka Tax: Where Cost, Complexity, and Latency Add Up When You Do Not Need the Full Cluster
In the first part of this series, I argued that Databricks and Snowflake are not walking away from Apache Kafka.…
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Stop Reading, Start Running: The Volt Developer Hub is Live
Introducing the Volt Active Data Developer Hub – three guided paths for Kafka, SQL, and AI-agent builders, a browser sandbox…
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Observability Sees the Past. Your Network Needs Someone to Act on the Present
If you work in network operations, financial services, or any environment running at enterprise scale, you have invested heavily in…
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The Quiet Redesign Around Kafka: What Databricks and Snowflake’s New Ingestion Bets Reveal
Apache Kafka is not going anywhere. That needs to be said plainly before anything else, because the headlines coming out…
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What We Learned About Agentic AI in Telecom at DTW Ignite 2026
DTW Ignite brought together network operators, vendors, and systems integrators to talk about where telecom infrastructure is heading. This year…
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What We Learned About Agentic AI in Financial Services at FinNext 2026
FinNext 2026 brought together leaders from banking, fintech, payments, lending, and technology to talk about where the financial services industry…
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High Availability in Strongly Consistent Systems Is an Architecture Decision, Not a Feature.
I’ve had some version of the same conversation dozens of times. An operator or platform team has invested heavily in…
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Why FS institutions have more intelligence than they can act on
Financial institutions have spent the last decade building serious analytical capability. Sophisticated fraud models, mature ML platforms, years of transaction…
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From Hype to Production: Solving the Data Currency Gap in Agentic AI for Telcos
Walking the floors of MWC this year, one thing was immediately clear to me: Agentic AI has officially moved out…
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Real-time data isn’t enough. Real-time decisions are.
At the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in March 2026, the conversation kept returning to the same problem: organizations have…
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