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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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NoSQL vs. NewSQL: What’s the difference?
NoSQL and NewSQL databases are popular solutions in the data management space. We’re sometimes asked to clarify the difference between…
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Read Repair – a solution to eventual consistency?
I got some fairly harsh feedback for my last post, “Lies, Damned Lies and “Eventual Consistency.” It’s clear a lot…
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An intern’s experience at Volt Active Data: Partial snapshots, YCSB benchmark
Working at Volt Active Data is a fantastic experience. Coming from Brown CS, I worked as a software engineering intern…
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Optimizing client APIs – an intern’s story
My name is Yuxuan Chen, a Brown University CS master’s student, and I spent this summer as an intern in…
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New Go language driver available for Volt Active Data
I’m happy to introduce a fully featured, high-performance Volt Active Data client for the go language. The golang client is…
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Fast Data vs. Big Data – Is it the classic case of David vs. Goliath?
I recently joined Volt Active Data as the lead Solutions Architect responsible for helping prospects, customers and partners in the…
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Lies, Damned Lies and “Eventual Consistency”
Let me start by making an arrogant statement: There is no such thing as eventual consistency. There is only ‘Immediate…
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Volt Active Data 6.4 Passes Official Jepsen Testing
Volt Active Data hired Kyle Kingsbury, creator of the Jepsen Tests, to build a new, stronger, Jepsen test especially for…
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The two types of databases: Defines the World, or Reacts to the World
There’s a very simple distinction in the database world that tends to be ignored. Your database either: Or, it If…
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The role of a fast database in the NFV revolution
Innovation in the telecommunications industry has been led primarily by hardware vendors, offering differentiating capabilities to carriers. This has created…
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From the Internet of People to the IoT and the Analytics of Things – industry examples
This post is a contribution from Cheryl Wiebe, Partner of Advanced Analytics at Teradata West Region. If you follow Gartner,…
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Do you have an IoT checklist?
This blog was adapted from a post that first appeared on LinkedIn. There’s an interesting article in The Economist on consumer IOT.…
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