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Top 5 Apache Kafka Use Cases: When to Use Kafka

March 23, 2023

Apache 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 streaming data rapidly grow, it’s becoming increasingly important for companies to start [...]

March 23, 2023
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5 Things to Know About Open API Adoption

March 09, 2023

By: Briana Matejcik

The 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) Barcelona, for example, APIs and API adoption was oft-discussed topics [...]

March 9, 2023
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Kafka Event Stream Processing at Scale: Common Kafka Challenges

February 23, 2023

By: Briana Matejcik

Everyone 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 even using Kafka in the first place? In today’s real-time era, more and [...]

February 23, 2023
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5 Key Questions from our webinar, “Is Your Data Architecture Ready for Microservices?”

June 07, 2019

By: Dheeraj Remella

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, here’s a recap on the FAQs asked during the webinar. Editor’s Note: Unless […]

June 7, 2019
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3 Benefits of Using a In-Memory NewSQL Data Platform for Smart Stream Processing

April 30, 2019

By: Briana Matejcik

Traditional 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 and stability. However, for most real-life business scenarios in industries such as finance, [...]

April 30, 2019
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Is “Translytics” Just Rebranded “OLTP”?

February 21, 2018

By: David Rolfe

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 transactions, but doesn’t really do much more than that. An OLTP database application [...]

February 21, 2018
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Kafka Summit 2017 – Key Takeaways and Commentary

September 08, 2017

By: Volt Active Data Blog Staff

Last 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 meet directly with exhibiting sponsors like Volt Active Data to learn more about […]

September 8, 2017
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Top 5 Apache Kafka Use Cases: When to Use Kafka

5 Things to Know About Open API Adoption

Kafka Event Stream Processing at Scale: Common Kafka Challenges

5 Key Questions from our webinar, “Is Your Data Architecture Ready for Microservices?”

3 Benefits of Using a In-Memory NewSQL Data Platform for Smart Stream Processing

Is “Translytics” Just Rebranded “OLTP”?

Kafka Summit 2017 – Key Takeaways and Commentary

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