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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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5 Fast Data Trends in Financial Services
The financial industry is undergoing a fast data revolution and we hear from a lot of our clients about why…
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How is Fast Data Transforming the Telco Landscape?
Telco networks have always generated fast data at line speed. In telco use cases like policy management, decisions are already…
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Go Faster!
Several days ago, I saw a tweet fly by in my stream. The creator of Node.js, Ryan Dahl, was recommending…
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Kafka Summit 2017 – Key Takeaways and Commentary
Last Monday on August 28th, a number of the Volt Active Data staff attended the Kafka Summit in San Francisco.…
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Volt Active Data Announces v7.6
We’re ending the summer 2017 season with a bang – our new release, Volt Active Data v7.6, totally eclipses all…
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Part 2 in Series: Unanswered Q&A from Webinar — “Surviving IoT: How Telcos Can Thrive in the Next Industrial Revolution”
For part 1 of the series, click here. The Internet of Things (IoT) will be a fundamental shift from the…
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Measuring Real-Time
Editor’s note: This blog post first appeared on the InfoWorld blog on August 28th The term “real-time” is thrown around…
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What’s Missing from Your Fraud Detection Strategy?
Credit card fraud is ever-growing and ever-present. According to the 2016 LexisNexis True Cost of Fraud study, the total cost…
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Vlog: Why Our Interns, the Future in Engineering, Love Volt Active Data
Every summer, we give undergraduate and graduate students a chance to learn about working in a fast-paced startup. This year,…
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Fast Data in Financial Services: Key Trends to Maintain a Competitive Edge
Financial services institutions are faced with a number of high-pressure demands, whether it be from regulators, investors, customers, and internal…
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Part 1 in Series: Q & A Session from Webinar — “Surviving IoT: How Telcos Can Thrive in the Next Industrial Revolution”
Volt Active Data and Beecham Research teamed up to host a webinar in July called, “Surviving IoT: How Telcos Can…
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Vlog: The History and Future of the Blurring of Stream Processing & OLTP
Recently, our founding Engineer, John Hugg, spoke at Berlin Buzzwords. This vlog contains the video of his presentation there. What’s…
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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.