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Insights on building, scaling, and enforcing real-time decisions in modern data-driven systems.
As we move through 2026, three major shifts are converging to fundamentally change how organizations build and operate mission-critical systems. On the surface, they appear distinct. But they share a…
The Problem Every Enterprise Recognizes Every enterprise today faces the same fundamental challenge: critical information lives in silos, and by the time decisions get made, the moment has already passed….
Why Testing Matters in Modern Engineering Modern engineering methodologies emphasize fast feedback loops. In most cases, these loops connect product owners and development teams, with automated tests serving as the…
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NewSQL in Plain English
Editor’s note: This post is re-posted here by permission from the author. The original post was on LinkedIn on January 10, 2018.…
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QuickStart Video: Using Volt Active Data With Docker
Docker is a powerful tool that many of our customers and community members use for the development and testing of…
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Database Resolutions for 2018
The New Year brings about the perfect time to start fresh and set some new goals. So, in the spirit…
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“Forrester Wave Translytical Data Platforms Q4 2017” Puts a Good Foot Forward But Doesn’t Take Users Far Enough on the Selection Criteria
Forrester recently published a new Wave™ report on Translytical Data Platforms. In it, they define a Translytical Data Platform as:…
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Meltdown and Spectre and Volt Active Data
The internet is ablaze with articles and talk about hardware security flaws found recently in most modern processors, including chips…
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Year in Review: Top 5 Blog Posts from 2017…
…and What they Say About the Future Happy 2018 everyone! In keeping with the tradition of reflection at the start…
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NoSQL, RDBMS, and Contention for Shared Data: Part 2
Previously in part one of this blog series, I explained the problems with two methods of database interactions. Traditional JDBC-style interactions…
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NoSQL, RDBMS, and Contention for Shared Data: Part 1
First off: I’m not here to bash NoSQL. NoSQL came into existence for a good reason — your generic legacy…
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8 Tips for Evaluating a Database in 2022
It’s that time of year — the “wrap up/planning” blogs are among us as we look to a new year.…
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Microservices – What CSPs can Learn From IT
CSPs are in a critical period of transformation right now. Omnipresent connectivity is driving new disruptive business models which are…
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The Changing Landscape of Databases in Financial Services
For decades, relational databases was the de-facto choice for financial service companies, until the 2000s where systems started to face…
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Volt Active Data Bonded Network Compatibility
In this post we describe Volt Active Data’s high availability architecture and how it interacts with bonded networks. Together they…
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