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In the era of big data, organizations are grappling with vast amounts of information that can hold immense value if harnessed effectively. Traditional methods of real-time data processing and analysis are no longer sufficient to handle the complexity and scale of modern datasets. That’s…
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Streaming data has become practically ubiquitous. From social media feeds to IoT sensors, businesses are now inundated with real-time data. The challenge is not only to store this data but also to make sense of it and act on it quickly. This…
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We’ve been hearing a lot about real-time data platforms and also about streaming data and streaming data-enabling messaging technology such as Apache Kafka. The idea is to turn your streaming data into real-time data by using it while it still has value.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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: What is an event? As the name suggests, an event occurs when some specific action…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…