High Availability
Insights on building, scaling, and enforcing real-time decisions in modern data-driven systems.
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Lessons from the AWS Outage and Why Deterministic Decision Fabrics Matter
In mid-October 2025, a single race condition in the DNS automation layer behind Amazon DynamoDB triggered one of the largest…
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Guide to Cost-Efficient Edge Data Replication
Introduction: The Role of Data Replication in Edge Computing Edge computing has revolutionized industries that require real-time data processing, such…
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Why ACID Requirements Cause So Many Issues: Lessons From a Company That Switched From Redis to Volt
We’ve never been super big on flagrantly tooting our own horn, but we recently had a customer who switched from…
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Top 3 Kafka Streams Challenges
We’ve been writing a lot about challenges lately. We recently wrote about API challenges – now we’re discussing challenges with Kafka Streams. …
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How Caches Become Databases – And Why You Don’t Want This
Companies like to complicate things. There’s no better way to say it. The law of entropy clearly applies as much…
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The 6 Rules for Achieving (and Maintaining) High Availability
In the age of big-data-turned-massive-data, maintaining high availability, aka ultra-reliability, aka ‘uptime’, has become “paramount”, to use a ChatGPT word. Why?…
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Volt is the real-time decisioning layer for mission-critical systems, ensuring decisions are made and enforced immediately against accurate state, even under sustained load.
If your system cannot tolerate delayed enforcement, inconsistent behavior, or reconciliation after the fact, let’s start a conversation about whether a dedicated decisioning layer makes sense for your architecture.