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Walking the floors of MWC this year, one thing was immediately clear to me: Agentic AI has officially moved out of the experimental labs and into active production environments. But…
At the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in March 2026, the conversation kept returning to the same problem: organizations have built serious streaming infrastructure, but they still can't get authoritative…
The transition to 5G has fundamentally altered the performance expectations placed on the BSS layer. To meet the Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) targets of 3GPP standards, network functions like…
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Billions and billions (of transactions)
Billions and billions of transactions are executed each and every day by production-deployed Volt Active Data applications. A back-of-the-napkin calculation…
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The five most frequent questions about Volt Active Data
We get a lot of questions about what Volt Active Data is, what it does well, and how it can…
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Connecting Volt Active Data to Amazon Kinesis streams
I work on the Volt Active Data Scrum team tasked to create interfaces – both import and export – to…
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Four Use Cases Where NoSQL Databases Fall Short
We looked at the basic differences between NoSQL and NewSQL in a recent post. Now let’s break the differences down…
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NoSQL vs. NewSQL: What’s the difference?
NoSQL and NewSQL databases are popular solutions in the data management space. We’re sometimes asked to clarify the difference between…
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Read Repair – a solution to eventual consistency?
I got some fairly harsh feedback for my last post, “Lies, Damned Lies and “Eventual Consistency.” It’s clear a lot…
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An intern’s experience at Volt Active Data: Partial snapshots, YCSB benchmark
Working at Volt Active Data is a fantastic experience. Coming from Brown CS, I worked as a software engineering intern…
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Optimizing client APIs – an intern’s story
My name is Yuxuan Chen, a Brown University CS master’s student, and I spent this summer as an intern in…
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New Go language driver available for Volt Active Data
I’m happy to introduce a fully featured, high-performance Volt Active Data client for the go language. The golang client is…
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Fast Data vs. Big Data – Is it the classic case of David vs. Goliath?
I recently joined Volt Active Data as the lead Solutions Architect responsible for helping prospects, customers and partners in the…
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Lies, Damned Lies and “Eventual Consistency”
Let me start by making an arrogant statement: There is no such thing as eventual consistency. There is only ‘Immediate…
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Volt Active Data 6.4 Passes Official Jepsen Testing
Volt Active Data hired Kyle Kingsbury, creator of the Jepsen Tests, to build a new, stronger, Jepsen test especially for…
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