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Insights on building, scaling, and enforcing real-time decisions in modern data-driven systems.
The current discourse around AI is fixated on the "Brain" – Large Language Models (LLMs) and the generative capabilities of agents. But for the enterprise, a brain without a nervous…
In 2025, real-time decisioning shifted from a technical ambition to a business requirement. As streaming, AI, and edge computing matured, organizations were forced to rethink how quickly, consistently, and safely…
In mid-October 2025, a single race condition in the DNS automation layer behind Amazon DynamoDB triggered one of the largest cloud outages in recent memory. Tens of thousands of businesses…
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Meltdown and Spectre and Volt Active Data
The internet is ablaze with articles and talk about hardware security flaws found recently in most modern processors, including chips…
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Year in Review: Top 5 Blog Posts from 2017…
…and What they Say About the Future Happy 2018 everyone! In keeping with the tradition of reflection at the start…
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NoSQL, RDBMS, and Contention for Shared Data: Part 2
Previously in part one of this blog series, I explained the problems with two methods of database interactions. Traditional JDBC-style interactions…
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NoSQL, RDBMS, and Contention for Shared Data: Part 1
First off: I’m not here to bash NoSQL. NoSQL came into existence for a good reason — your generic legacy…
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8 Tips for Evaluating a Database in 2022
It’s that time of year — the “wrap up/planning” blogs are among us as we look to a new year.…
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Microservices – What CSPs can Learn From IT
CSPs are in a critical period of transformation right now. Omnipresent connectivity is driving new disruptive business models which are…
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The Changing Landscape of Databases in Financial Services
For decades, relational databases was the de-facto choice for financial service companies, until the 2000s where systems started to face…
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Volt Active Data Bonded Network Compatibility
In this post we describe Volt Active Data’s high availability architecture and how it interacts with bonded networks. Together they…
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4 Sources of Latency and How to Avoid Them
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on November 1, 2017 on the InfoWorld blog. It is republished with permission. Even…
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Gamers’ Real-Time Demands: More Challenging than NG+
Gamers want real-time offers and micro-transactions — but only if they are useful. This is a key finding from The…
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Key Considerations for a Modern Database to Operate at Scale
Modern applications have two primary needs: Performance The performance consists of two aspects: throughput and latency. Both are driven by…
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Questions and Answers about Modern Database Architecture
Volt Active Data and DBTA teamed up to host a webinar in October titled “Architectural Considerations for a Modern Database…
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