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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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Announcing Volt Active Data v7.5
Volt Active Data V7.5 is now available, with a fine set of features sure to excite our customers, including: For…
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3 Must-haves of an In-memory Database for Modern Applications
Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared in DBTA. More companies are realizing that leveraging real-time data is the key to…
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Beyond Analytics to Real-time Decisions
Companies and business leaders are increasingly realizing the advantages and opportunities provided by implementing real-time decision making and action on…
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Cloud Migration for Telcos – Key Considerations
It seems like everyone is moving to the cloud lately, regardless of industry. Telcos are the process of doing the…
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Connecting Volt Active Data to Amazon AWS Kinesis Streams
Volt Active Data includes interfaces – both import and export – to many other applications and systems in the broader…
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What is Innovation Week at Volt Active Data?
Recently we held our Q2 Innovation Week, culminating in presentations and voting on the innovation projects created by our engineering…
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Fast Data Pipeline Design: Updating Per-Event Decisions by Swapping Tables
Volt Active Data was one of the first companies to enable a new modern breed of applications, applications that combine…
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Who will win in the IoT?
Let’s talk about The Internet of Things, or “IoT”. You cannot turn a page lately in the technology press and…
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Volt Active Data v7.4 Released
Exciting news – this Volt Active Data v7.4 release has the first batch of contributions by our summer interns! Here…
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Keeping up with Header Bidding’s performance requirements
Pretty much anyone who knows adtech will tell you that header bidding is the future of the industry. Header bidding allows…
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Fraud – Five Takeaways from our Analyst Webinar
Many Volt Active Data customers are creating externally-facing applications which face the potential of being hacked, with the applications and/or…
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