Insights on building, scaling, and enforcing real-time decisions in modern data-driven systems.

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To move as fast as they can at scale while protecting mission-critical data, more and more organizations are investing in…

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We’ve been writing a lot about challenges lately. We recently wrote about API challenges – now we’re discussing challenges with Kafka Streams. …

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Acid transactions, ACID properties, and the CAP theorem are two important concepts in data management and distributed systems. It’s unfortunate…

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Volt has been involved with the Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB) for some time. Every now and then we re-run the benchmark…

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A lot of companies use Volt Active Data for classic Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), but why would you pick Volt…

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We’re excited to announce very strong results from benchmarking Volt Active Data on Supermicro edge hardware. Supermicro is a global technology…

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Here at Volt we see a lot of customers who come to us having devoted heartbreaking amounts of time, energy,…

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The adoption of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), open and otherwise, has become a ‘topic du jour’. API usage continues to surge and…
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We’re very excited to announce that Volt Active Data 12.0 has been released and is now available! This release is…

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As 2023 gets going, most companies are still pretty obsessed with “data”—as we are. Data is “the new oil”. You…

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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…

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Network slicing is the process of dividing physical networks into several smaller virtual networks that can be configured to support…
Volt is the real-time decisioning layer for mission-critical systems, ensuring decisions are made and enforced immediately against accurate state, even under sustained load.
If your system cannot tolerate delayed enforcement, inconsistent behavior, or reconciliation after the fact, let’s start a conversation about whether a dedicated decisioning layer makes sense for your architecture.