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Why Streaming Data Platforms Need True Real-Time Decisioning

May 30, 2023

Simply put: in the year 2023 and for the foreseeable future, businesses need to be able to process and analyze data in real time to remain competitive. Streaming data platforms such as Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, AWS Kinesis, and Apache Kafka are becoming increasingly popular, but not all of them are capable [...]

May 30, 2023
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Why You Can’t Retrofit Real-Time Decisioning

May 11, 2023

By: David Rolfe

Real-time decisioning has rapidly gained popularity within the tech zeitgeist, especially with its connection to streaming data. It seems like everything these days either happens in real time or it doesn’t happen at all. But companies are starting to run into a major issue with real-time data and real-time decisioning. They’re trying to fit a [...]

May 11, 2023
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5 Data Trends to Watch for in 2023

January 05, 2023

By: Briana Matejcik

As 2023 gets going, most companies are still pretty obsessed with “data”—as we are. Data is “the new oil”. You knew that already. But trends within the vast data realm come and go and some of them are clearly coming while others are clearly going. As it turns out, 2022 turned out to be a [...]

January 5, 2023
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What is an Event-Driven Microservices Architecture?

October 19, 2022

By: Briana Matejcik

An event-driven microservices architecture is an approach to software development where decoupled microservices are designed to communicate with one another when events occur. These architectures are comprised of three critical features: Event producers, which detect and send events to routers when they occur, Event routers, which analyze events and determine where to send them, and [...]

October 19, 2022
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DTW 2022: APIs, 5G, and Moving on From Legacy

September 27, 2022

By: Briana Matejcik

My colleagues and I just got back from TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World (DTW) 2022 in Copenhagen. It was the first in-person DTW in three years and my first time attending. If you’ve never been, it’s kind of like a boutique Mobile World Congress (MWC). Perhaps the most noticeable thing about this conference was how [...]

September 27, 2022
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What is Eventual Consistency?

September 20, 2022

By: Briana Matejcik

Eventual consistency is a data modeling concept that ensures that updates made to distributed NoSQL databases will eventually be reflected across all nodes. This ensures that identical database queries will return the same results after some period of time. While many new database products were built upon the eventual consistency model, there are a number [...]

September 20, 2022
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What is Enterprise IoT?

July 21, 2022

By: Briana Matejcik

Enterprise IoT represents the next phase in the evolution of the Internet of Things, wherein enterprises increasingly invest in connected physical products that have embedded computing devices in them in order to drive operational efficiency, reduce manual work, and otherwise accelerate business processes. By connecting physical objects to the internet via enterprise IoT investments, organizations [...]

July 21, 2022
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3 Ways Your Hyper-Personalization is Subtracting Value

July 07, 2022

By: Briana Matejcik

Recently I flew from Dublin, where I live, to Volt’s new HQ outside Boston. Apart from the usual travel delays and headaches, what made the journey stand out was the significant number of late, delayed, and out-of-context or tone-deaf messages I got around my upcoming flight. And it’s not just from the airlines. Companies are [...]

July 7, 2022
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How Telcos Can Decide Which Verticals to Target With Edge Computing

June 09, 2022

By: Briana Matejcik

As telcos focus on unlocking the full value of 5G, leading operators are paying more and more attention to the edge. After all, edge computing promises to deliver transformative benefits to operators, enabling them to build next-generation applications for their customers. For example, instead of having to route data back to the core data center, [...]

June 9, 2022
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What is Quality of Service (QoS)?

April 26, 2022

By: Briana Matejcik

Quality of Service (QoS) encompasses the tools and technologies that enable telco operators to ensure networks, applications, and services are highly performant regardless of network capacity. By giving network admins visibility into important metrics and allowing them to allocate bandwidth to mission-critical applications as traffic ebbs and flows, QoS technologies ensure that high-priority networks and [...]

April 26, 2022
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Why Streaming Data Platforms Need True Real-Time Decisioning

Why You Can’t Retrofit Real-Time Decisioning

5 Data Trends to Watch for in 2023

What is an Event-Driven Microservices Architecture?

DTW 2022: APIs, 5G, and Moving on From Legacy

What is Eventual Consistency?

What is Enterprise IoT?

3 Ways Your Hyper-Personalization is Subtracting Value

How Telcos Can Decide Which Verticals to Target With Edge Computing

What is Quality of Service (QoS)?

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