Category: Real-Time Use Cases

Why Streaming Data Platforms Need True Real-Time Decisioning

Why Streaming Data Platforms Need True Real-Time Decisioning

May 30, 2023
By: David Rolfe
Simply put: in the year 2023 and for the foreseeable future, businesses need to be able to process and analyze data in real time to remain competitive.  Streaming data platforms such as Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, AWS Kinesis, and Apache Kafka are becoming increasingly popular, but not all of them are capable [...]

Why You Can’t Retrofit Real-Time Decisioning

May 11, 2023
By: David Rolfe
Real-time decisioning has rapidly gained popularity within the tech zeitgeist, especially with its connection to streaming data.  It seems like everything these days either happens in real time or it doesn’t happen at all.  But companies are starting to run into a major issue with real-time data and real-time decisioning. They’re trying to fit a [...]
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The Power of Real-Time Data Processing

April 13, 2023
By: Briana Matejcik
Over the last ten years, there’s been a lot of talk about real-time data and real-time decisioning, and how they promise to transform how organizations operate.  Up until recently, however, “real time” didn’t actually mean “real time” — it meant something closer to “as fast as is possible with current technology.” Fast-forward a decade, and [...]
What is an Event-Driven Microservices Architecture

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. These architectures are comprised of three critical features: Event producers, which detect and send events to routers when they occur, Event routers, which analyze events and determine where to send them, and [...]
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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 [...]
what is eventual consistency

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 [...]
difference between a customer data platform and a regular data platform

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 [...]
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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 [...]
QoS

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 [...]
high availability

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 [...]

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