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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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The Power of Real-Time Data Processing
Over the last ten years, there’s been a lot of talk about real-time data and real-time decisioning, and how they promise to…
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Top 5 Apache Kafka Use Cases: When to Use Kafka
Apache Kafka is now the official gatekeeper of streaming data. It’s a distributed data store designed and perfectly calibrated to ingest…
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5 Things to Know About Open API Adoption
The adoption of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), open and otherwise, has become a ‘topic du jour’. API usage continues to surge and…
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Volt Active Data 12.0 Now Available
We’re very excited to announce that Volt Active Data 12.0 has been released and is now available! This release is…
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Kafka Event Stream Processing at Scale: Common Kafka Challenges
Everyone has Kafka issues. Well, maybe not everyone, but most companies that end up using Apache Kafka in any meaningful…
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Why Monetizing 5G is Becoming a Reality
Last week I had the chance to speak in two separate panels at RCR Wireless’s 5G Monetization Forum: “Creating a Win-Win…
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5 Data Trends to Watch for in 2023
As 2023 gets going, most companies are still pretty obsessed with “data”—as we are. Data is “the new oil”. You…
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Top 4 Technical Challenges for Fantasy Sports Apps
In 2021, the fantasy sports market brought in an impressive $24 billion. By 2030, that number is projected to increase to $78.5…
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Five 5G Use Cases to Look for in 2023
There’s going to be a lot of crazy tech-related predictions for next year. This blog may even be the fourth…
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What is an Event-Driven Microservices Architecture?
An event-driven microservices architecture is an approach to software development where decoupled microservices are designed to communicate with one another when events…
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DTW 2022: APIs, 5G, and Moving on From Legacy
My colleagues and I just got back from TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World (DTW) 2022 in Copenhagen. It was the first…
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What is Eventual Consistency?
Eventual consistency is a data modeling concept that ensures that updates made to distributed NoSQL databases will eventually be reflected…
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