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5 Data Trends to Watch for in 2023

January 05, 2023

As 2023 gets going, most companies are still pretty obsessed with “data”—as we are. Data is “the new oil”. You knew that already. But trends within the vast data realm come and go and some of them are clearly coming while others are clearly going. As it turns out, 2022 turned out to be a [...]

January 5, 2023
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What is an Event-Driven Microservices Architecture?

October 19, 2022

By: Briana Matejcik

An event-driven microservices architecture is an approach to software development where decoupled microservices are designed to communicate with one another when events occur.

October 19, 2022
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DTW 2022: APIs, 5G, and Moving on From Legacy

September 27, 2022

By: Briana Matejcik

My colleagues and I just got back from TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World (DTW) 2022 in Copenhagen. It was the first in-person DTW in three years and my first time attending. If you’ve never been, it’s kind of like a boutique Mobile World Congress (MWC). Perhaps the most noticeable thing about this conference was how [...]

September 27, 2022
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What is Eventual Consistency?

September 20, 2022

By: Briana Matejcik

Eventual consistency is a data modeling concept that ensures that updates made to distributed NoSQL databases will eventually be reflected across all nodes. This ensures that identical database queries will return the same results after some period of time. While many new database products were built upon the eventual consistency model, there are a number [...]

September 20, 2022
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Difference Between a Customer Data Platform and a Regular Data Platform

September 01, 2022

By: Briana Matejcik

While customer data platforms (CDPs) and “regular” data platforms, or data management platforms, might sound similar and might provide organizations with similar benefits, they are not the same. They can, however, be used in conjunction with one another in order to enrich company data and target customers more effectively. Keep reading to learn more about [...]

September 1, 2022
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3 Ways Your Hyper-Personalization is Subtracting Value

July 07, 2022

By: Briana Matejcik

Recently I flew from Dublin, where I live, to Volt’s new HQ outside Boston. Apart from the usual travel delays and headaches, what made the journey stand out was the significant number of late, delayed, and out-of-context or tone-deaf messages I got around my upcoming flight. And it’s not just from the airlines. Companies are [...]

July 7, 2022
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What is Quality of Service (QoS)?

April 26, 2022

By: Briana Matejcik

Quality of Service (QoS) encompasses the tools and technologies that enable telco operators to ensure networks, applications, and services are highly performant regardless of network capacity. By giving network admins visibility into important metrics and allowing them to allocate bandwidth to mission-critical applications as traffic ebbs and flows, QoS technologies ensure that high-priority networks and [...]

April 26, 2022
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What is High Availability and Why Do You Need it?

April 13, 2022

By: Briana Matejcik

High availability describes systems or networks that can operate continuously, with minimal downtime, even during peak usage. The advent of 5G has made high availability more important than ever as it has significantly increased the volume, variety, and velocity of data flowing into systems. What’s the Purpose of High Availability? The goal of high availability [...]

April 13, 2022
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The (Very Important) Difference Between ‘Reacting’ and ‘Responding’ to Data

April 06, 2022

By: Briana Matejcik

The data world is changing faster than ever—but it’s always changing faster than ever. The speeds and volumes at which data now enters enterprise systems are of course far greater than even a year ago, and a year ago it was far greater than the year before, and so on and so on. Now—with (relatively) [...]

April 6, 2022
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MWC is Back! Top-Four Takeaways From the Return of the Leading Telco Event

March 09, 2022

By: David Rolfe

If, like me, you’re a regular attendee of Mobile World Congress (MWC), you probably devoted a lot of time and energy to set up meetings for MWC 2020, only to see it all evaporate before your eyes over the course of a couple of days. Now, MWC is finally back. Things were a bit different [...]

March 9, 2022
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Category: Real-Time Use Cases

5 Data Trends to Watch for in 2023

What is an Event-Driven Microservices Architecture?

DTW 2022: APIs, 5G, and Moving on From Legacy

What is Eventual Consistency?

Difference Between a Customer Data Platform and a Regular Data Platform

3 Ways Your Hyper-Personalization is Subtracting Value

What is Quality of Service (QoS)?

What is High Availability and Why Do You Need it?

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