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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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Volt Active Data In-Memory Database Achieves Best-In-Class Results, Running in the Cloud, On the YCSB Benchmark
The development team at Volt Active Data recently ran Volt Active Data v4.2 against the Yahoo Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB),…
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Aging Out Data From Volt Active Data
Deleting records is often an afterthought when you’re first building a proof of concept with Volt Active Data, but it…
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Using The Spring @Schedule Annotation
In a previous life I had a requirement that a web application scanned the expiration date of purchased content and…
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Clarifications On The CAP Theorem And Data-Related Errors
There has been another round of online conversations about the CAP theorem as the internet community continues to discuss its…
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