Real-Time Use Cases
Insights on building, scaling, and enforcing real-time decisions in modern data-driven systems.
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Three Trends Reshaping Real-Time Systems in 2026
As we move through 2026, three major shifts are converging to fundamentally change how organizations build and operate mission-critical systems.…
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Strategies for Testing Volt Active Data Products with TestContainers
Why Testing Matters in Modern Engineering Modern engineering methodologies emphasize fast feedback loops. In most cases, these loops connect product…
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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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The Hidden Costs of Centralized Data Processing — And How Edge Intelligence Eliminates Them
You already know: data has become the cornerstone of innovation, efficiency, and improved customer experiences across industries. Traditionally, organizations have…
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Digital Twins in Automotive: How Virtual Models are Driving Real-World Innovation
Automotive manufacturers face ever-evolving political and technological landscapes that make staying “ahead of the curve” essential not only to success…
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When NoSQL Isn’t Enough: The Need for a Stronger Data Platform
Introduction NoSQL databases and data platforms have gained widespread adoption over the past decade, offering flexible schema design, horizontal scalability,…
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Understanding Volt Active Stream Processing
Processing data streams in real time has become essential for modern businesses. The rapid increase in data generation and the…
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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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Latency vs. Throughput: Navigating the Digital Highway
Imagine the digital world as a bustling highway, where data packets are vehicles racing to their destinations. In this fast-paced…
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Introducing Volt Active(ISU): Zero-Downtime Upgrades to Improve the Engine While It’s Running
Enterprise customers that require ‘five nines’ availability need it as a guarantee, not just a vague promise. That’s why we’ve…
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Got Data Platform TCO Issues? This Raspberry Pi Test May Interest You
Total cost of ownership (TCO) has become a major headache for most tech companies whose product and/or services rely on…
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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.