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Getting up to date answers about recent events and asking the same question about older data is really hard to do using open source. The Lambda Architecture is a somewhat complicated way of doing this kind of mass scale, relatively fast, open…
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Rising Amounts of Information As we look at total amount of information created world wide, we see an exponentially rising curve. According to the 2017 Internet Trends study, the amount of total information generated in the world today is about 16 zettabytes…
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3 common real-time application patterns that require a real-time decision Editor’s note: This blog post first appeared on the InfoWorld blog on September 29, 2017. At first glance, building a real-time application may sound like a daunting proposition, one that involves technical…
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Volt Active Data was one of the first companies to enable a new modern breed of applications, applications that combine streaming, or “fast data”, tightly with big data.We call these applications Fast Data Pipelines. First, a quick high-level summary of the fast…