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New YCSB Shows Cost-Effectiveness of Volt at Scale for Amazon

October 31, 2023

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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How to Add Real-Time Decisioning to Streaming Data

June 29, 2023

By: Briana Matejcik

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 is where real-time decisioning for streaming data comes into play. Real-time decisioning is [...]

June 29, 2023
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When Does Streaming Data Become Real-Time Data?

June 08, 2023

By: David Rolfe

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. This isn’t always easy to achieve. In fact, it’s almost never easy to [...]

June 8, 2023
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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 [...]

May 30, 2023
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Top 5 Apache Kafka Use Cases: When to Use Kafka

March 23, 2023

By: Briana Matejcik

Apache Kafka is now the official gatekeeper of streaming data. It’s a distributed data store designed and perfectly calibrated to ingest and process streaming data (ie, data continuously generated by thousands of sources) in real time. As both the amount and value of streaming data rapidly grow, it’s becoming increasingly important for companies to start [...]

March 23, 2023
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Kafka Event Stream Processing at Scale: Common Kafka Challenges

February 23, 2023

By: Briana Matejcik

Everyone has Kafka issues. Well, maybe not everyone, but most companies that end up using Apache Kafka in any meaningful way do end up facing certain Kafka challenges, most of which aren’t necessarily easy to resolve. First off — why are companies even using Kafka in the first place? In today’s real-time era, more and [...]

February 23, 2023
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What is Streaming Data?

September 09, 2021

By: Mark Simborg

Streaming data is data that flows in continuously from highly distributed sources. These data streams are constantly feeding data that data platforms can use or act upon dynamically and in real time, without the need to download or batch it first. Data streams come from a wide variety of sources and in many different formats, [...]

September 9, 2021
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Category: Streaming/Kafka

New YCSB Shows Cost-Effectiveness of Volt at Scale for Amazon

How to Add Real-Time Decisioning to Streaming Data

When Does Streaming Data Become Real-Time Data?

Why Streaming Data Platforms Need True Real-Time Decisioning

Top 5 Apache Kafka Use Cases: When to Use Kafka

Kafka Event Stream Processing at Scale: Common Kafka Challenges

What is Streaming Data?

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