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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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A Question of Degree: Thoughts from the In-Memory Computing Summit
Volt Active Data was a sponsor of the recent In-Memory Computing Summit in San Francisco. I always enjoy going back…
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Introducing our new eBook, Architecting for the Internet of Things
Ryan Betts is one of Volt Active Data’s founding developers, and is currently our CTO. He’s been designing and building…
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Volt Active Data Cross Data Center Replication
Check out or documentation site to learn more about Volt Active Data Cross Data Center Replication. In section 11.3, you’ll…
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Continuous queries on streams in Volt Active Data using materialized views
We’ve added a new feature in Volt Active Data v6.6: support for joins in materialized views. We’re very pleased to…
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New guides to help you on your Fast Data Journey
Fast Data has changed the way business value is created and captured, opening up a new era of competition and…
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Accelerating Value for the Enterprise IoT
This post was contributed by Prateek Gera, Founder and Chief Product Officer of Volt Active Data partner company Teevr Data. …
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Call Center example: Integrating processing and state to make streaming problems simple to solve
I recently gave a talk at the Strata + Hadoop World conference in San Jose on the benefits of integration of…
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My first (fast) 90 days
I changed jobs and companies a very fast 90 days ago, moving from a huge (I like to say that…
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The Fast Data Superpower
How many of us dreamed of having a superpower growing up? Be honest. I know for me it was flying.…
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A Classification of Streaming Applications
The Internet of Things (IOT) is rapidly expanding the number of streaming applications as people sensor tag an increasing number…
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IoT Day
Today is Internet of Things (IoT) Day, a day that marks a significant change in how we work, how we…
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Before & after: How fast data will enable the IoT
More than three billion people globally access the Internet via smartphones and other devices such as watches and fitness trackers.…
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