Tag: consistency
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Changing Definition of Real-Time
Read more: Changing Definition of Real-TimeA lot of the mainstream media coverage of 5G revolves around the potential benefits for the individual consumers, such as AR/VR gaming. But the truth of the matter is that as analysts have observed and projected, CSPs are acutely aware that the…
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6 Reasons Why Your Machine Learning Project Will Fail to Get Into Production
Read more: 6 Reasons Why Your Machine Learning Project Will Fail to Get Into ProductionThere is a massive difference between generating the input data needed by a Machine Learning model once (to prove a concept), and doing it continuously, indefinitely, at scale, and within short time periods. Years of experience working with disparate and imperfect data…
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Keeping up with Header Bidding’s performance requirements
Read more: Keeping up with Header Bidding’s performance requirementsPretty much anyone who knows adtech will tell you that header bidding is the future of the industry. Header bidding allows publishers to field ad bids in the header of a webpage, which is before anything else (including other ad placements) loads. This…
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Data Consistency – Why You Need an ACID Database in Financial Services
Read more: Data Consistency – Why You Need an ACID Database in Financial ServicesIn 2016, we partnered with Research Now to conduct a survey on a subject we take very seriously: data consistency. The results were shocking. While there was wide agreement on what is defined by “critical data” (financial data), only 58% of people…
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MiFID II – You’re doing it wrong …
Read more: MiFID II – You’re doing it wrong …Many financial services organizations are well on their way to implementing a data management and reporting strategy to comply with the upcoming MiFID II requirements. For our procrastinator friends out there who perhaps haven’t read through all 196 pages of the regulation…
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3 Key Points from our webinar Preparing for a New Programmatic Adtech World with TripleLift
Read more: 3 Key Points from our webinar Preparing for a New Programmatic Adtech World with TripleLiftOne of the reasons I love working for a leading-edge database company is that I get to talk to and work with many different kinds of companies. Data is everywhere, and companies across the spectrum are trying to harness that data to…
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Lack of consistency is the hobgoblin of data management (and other survey results)
Read more: Lack of consistency is the hobgoblin of data management (and other survey results)We did a survey last year to see how enterprises viewed the need for “real time”(see https://www.voltactivedata.com/blog/worlds-apart-real-time-data-disconnect). Since we are leaders in the fast data space, we wanted to try to gauge where companies were on the real-time maturity curve. The results…
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Read Repair – a solution to eventual consistency?
Read more: Read Repair – a solution to eventual consistency?I got some fairly harsh feedback for my last post, “Lies, Damned Lies and “Eventual Consistency.” It’s clear a lot of people were thrown by the assertion: There is no such thing as eventual consistency. There is only ‘Immediate Consistency’ and ‘Wrong’.…
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Lies, Damned Lies and “Eventual Consistency”
Read more: 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 Consistency’ and ‘Wrong’. A lot of people would regard me as being unreasonable, but from my perspective I have a chain of…