Best Practices
Insights on building, scaling, and enforcing real-time decisions in modern data-driven systems.
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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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Database Resolutions for 2018
The New Year brings about the perfect time to start fresh and set some new goals. So, in the spirit…
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Managing the real-time data explosion? Look out for these 5 gotchas
Real-time connectivity will stop being an optional way to incrementally improve efficiency and instead become a baseline requirement without which…
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Lies, Damned Lies and “Eventual Consistency”
Let me start by making an arrogant statement: There is no such thing as eventual consistency. There is only ‘Immediate…
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From the Internet of People to the IoT and the Analytics of Things – industry examples
This post is a contribution from Cheryl Wiebe, Partner of Advanced Analytics at Teradata West Region. If you follow Gartner,…
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How Docker Simplifies Distributed Systems Development at Volt Active Data
Working on distributed systems is fun, but not easy! As a software engineer at Volt Active Data, a big chunk…
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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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