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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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What is a Private 5G Network?
To move as fast as they can at scale while protecting mission-critical data, more and more organizations are investing in…
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Top 3 Kafka Streams Challenges
We’ve been writing a lot about challenges lately. We recently wrote about API challenges – now we’re discussing challenges with Kafka Streams. …
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ACID vs CAP: What’s the Difference?
Acid transactions, ACID properties, and the CAP theorem are two important concepts in data management and distributed systems. It’s unfortunate…
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The 5 Biggest Challenges With APIs
Over the last couple of years, we’ve heard a lot of breathless talk about application programming interfaces (APIs) and how…
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How Caches Become Databases – And Why You Don’t Want This
Companies like to complicate things. There’s no better way to say it. The law of entropy clearly applies as much…
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The 6 Rules for Achieving (and Maintaining) High Availability
In the age of big-data-turned-massive-data, maintaining high availability, aka ultra-reliability, aka ‘uptime’, has become “paramount”, to use a ChatGPT word. Why?…
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Latency vs. Throughput: Navigating the Digital Highway
Imagine the digital world as a bustling highway, where data packets are vehicles racing to their destinations. In this fast-paced…
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Introducing Volt Active(ISU): Zero-Downtime Upgrades to Improve the Engine While It’s Running
Enterprise customers that require ‘five nines’ availability need it as a guarantee, not just a vague promise. That’s why we’ve…
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Got Data Platform TCO Issues? This Raspberry Pi Test May Interest You
Total cost of ownership (TCO) has become a major headache for most tech companies whose product and/or services rely on…
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Why Industrial IoT Applications Require IT-OT Convergence
The rapid growth and proliferation of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is changing the way organizations collect, process, and…
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Why V13.1 Is Our Most Important Release Yet
Today we announced our latest release, Volt Active Data 13.1— giving our customers a whole new level of no-compromise real-time data…
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Why Retailers Need Real-Time Data Processing
The big shopping season may be over, but it’s never too late for retailers to prepare for the next big…
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Volt is the real-time decisioning layer for mission-critical systems, ensuring decisions are made and enforced immediately against accurate state, even under sustained load.
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.