Scalability Archives - Volt Active Data

Top 3 Kafka Streams Challenges

April 11, 2024

We’ve been writing a lot about challenges lately. We recently wrote about API challenges – now we’re discussing challenges with Kafka Streams. Volt is very big on Kafka, as we specialize in complementing it in a really powerful way to allow enterprises to get the most out of it. That said, a lot of companies [...]

April 11, 2024
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Latency vs. Throughput: Navigating the Digital Highway

February 29, 2024

By: Mark Simborg

Imagine the digital world as a bustling highway, where data packets are vehicles racing to their destinations. In this fast-paced ecosystem, two vital elements determine the efficiency of this traffic: latency and throughput. Let’s unravel the mystery behind these terms and examine their significance in our everyday online experiences. Latency: The Waiting Game Latency is [...]

February 29, 2024
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Introducing Volt Active(ISU): Zero-Downtime Upgrades to Improve the Engine While It’s Running

February 20, 2024

By: Mark Simborg

Enterprise customers that require ‘five nines’ availability need it as a guarantee, not just a vague promise. That’s why we’ve introduced Volt In-Service Upgrade “Active(ISU)”, which allows you to upgrade clusters without having to shut anything down. When all the nodes have been updated, the features of the new version will become active. Active(ISU) will [...]

February 20, 2024
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Got Data Platform TCO Issues? This Raspberry Pi Test May Interest You

February 06, 2024

By: Mark Simborg

Total cost of ownership (TCO) has become a major headache for most tech companies whose product and/or services rely on being fast while staying reliable and accurate. It’s wonderful if your applications run at the speed of light, but what’s that worth if they have downtime or drive your customer service agents insane with the [...]

February 6, 2024
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New Benchmark: Volt Very Cost-Effective at Scale on Amazon Hardware

October 31, 2023

By: Briana Matejcik

Volt has been involved with the Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB) for some time. Every now and then we re-run the benchmark to see how we’re holding up. We recently re-ran it against newer Amazon hardware and discovered that: An ‘out of the box’ Volt configuration can easily hit just under 500K transactions per second [...]

October 31, 2023
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Top 4 Technical Challenges for Fantasy Sports Apps

December 14, 2022

By: Briana Matejcik

In 2021, the fantasy sports market brought in an impressive $24 billion. By 2030, that number is projected to increase to $78.5 billion, growing nearly 14 percent each year. This growth is due to a confluence of factors, including relaxed government regulations and the emergence of several new entrants into the space. With ESPN’s fantasy [...]