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Insights on building, scaling, and enforcing real-time decisions in modern data-driven systems.
Introducing the Volt Active Data Developer Hub – three guided paths for Kafka, SQL, and AI-agent builders, a browser sandbox backed by a live cluster, and everything in between to…
If you work in network operations, financial services, or any environment running at enterprise scale, you have invested heavily in observability (Dashboards, alerts, correlation rules, etc.) with Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace,…
Apache Kafka is not going anywhere. That needs to be said plainly before anything else, because the headlines coming out of this year's Snowflake Summit and Databricks Data & AI…
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OEMs: The 6 Questions to Ask Your Data Platform Vendors
OEMs face incredible challenges today. They’re being asked to do more with less as supply chain and operation overrun issues…
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Balancing Low Latency, High Availability, and Cloud Choice
Balancing Low Latency, High Availability and Cloud Choice Cloud hosting is no longer just an option — it’s now, in…
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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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