Tag: kafka
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How to Add Real-Time Decisioning to Streaming Data
Read more: How to Add Real-Time Decisioning to Streaming DataStreaming data has become practically ubiquitous. From social media feeds to IoT sensors, businesses are now inundated with real-time data. The challenge is not only to store this data but also to make sense of it and act on it quickly. This…
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Top 5 Apache Kafka Use Cases: When to Use Kafka
Read more: Top 5 Apache Kafka Use Cases: When to Use KafkaApache Kafka is now the official gatekeeper of streaming data. It’s a distributed data store designed and perfectly calibrated to ingest and process streaming data (ie, data continuously generated by thousands of sources) in real time. As both the amount and value of…
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5 Things to Know About Open API Adoption
Read more: 5 Things to Know About Open API AdoptionThe adoption of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), open and otherwise, has become a ‘topic du jour’. API usage continues to surge and many API-based tools are emerging to help developers and engineering teams take full advantage of APIs. At the recent Mobile World Congress (MWC)…
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Kafka Event Stream Processing at Scale: Common Kafka Challenges
Read more: Kafka Event Stream Processing at Scale: Common Kafka ChallengesEveryone has Kafka issues. Well, maybe not everyone, but most companies that end up using Apache Kafka in any meaningful way do end up facing certain Kafka challenges, most of which aren’t necessarily easy to resolve. First off — why are companies…
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5 Key Questions from our webinar, “Is Your Data Architecture Ready for Microservices?”
Read more: 5 Key Questions from our webinar, “Is Your Data Architecture Ready for Microservices?”At our recent webinar, “Is Your Data Architecture Ready for Microservices?”, we received a number of questions from attendees about Volt Active Data and how it works. From integrating Volt Active Data with Kafka to running Volt Active Data in a container,…
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3 Benefits of Using a In-Memory NewSQL Data Platform for Smart Stream Processing
Read more: 3 Benefits of Using a In-Memory NewSQL Data Platform for Smart Stream ProcessingTraditional pub/sub systems such as Apache Kafka (and their numerous ever evolving stream processing avatars like Apache Samza, Apache Storm, Apache Flink, etc.) work fine for a bunch of simple use cases where there is a need for simple decisions, speed, scale…
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Is “Translytics” Just Rebranded “OLTP”?
Read more: Is “Translytics” Just Rebranded “OLTP”?Recently Forrester group has started to talk about “translytics” and Translytical Databases – databases that can “Deliver Analytics At The Speed Of Transactions”. Is this more marketing hype? Or is there something to it? A traditional OLTP database handles lots of rapid fire…
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Kafka Summit 2017 – Key Takeaways and Commentary
Read more: Kafka Summit 2017 – Key Takeaways and CommentaryLast Monday on August 28th, a number of the Volt Active Data staff attended the Kafka Summit in San Francisco. This one-day event brought in over 700 attendees from the developer audience to attend 30+ valuable technical talks and breakout sessions, and…