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Insights on building, scaling, and enforcing real-time decisions in modern data-driven systems.
DTW Ignite brought together network operators, vendors, and systems integrators to talk about where telecom infrastructure is heading. This year we showed up differently than in years past. Together with…
FinNext 2026 brought together leaders from banking, fintech, payments, lending, and technology to talk about where the financial services industry is heading. AI, data infrastructure, cloud, and tokenization all got…
I've had some version of the same conversation dozens of times. An operator or platform team has invested heavily in an AI-driven decisioning system (fraud detection, network policy, real-time charging),…
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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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Top 5 Real-Time Data Processing Trends of 2023
2023 was a huge year for real-time data processing. Enterprises are more focused than ever using real-time data to guide…
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