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Last week, I spent a few days in New Orleans for Confluent Current 2025, surrounded by the people who’ve helped build the real-time data movement from the ground up, including engineers, architects, platform leads, and product managers, there to compare notes on…

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Last month, I attended StreamNative’s 2025 Data Streaming Summit, where one trend became unmistakably clear: the center of gravity in AI is shifting from offline model training to agentic AI running directly on real-time streaming systems. Instead of treating AI as a…

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Is your database truly ACID compliant—or just locked down by compromises? In the ever-evolving landscape of databases, ACID compliance remains the gold standard for applications in banking, travel, e-commerce, and telecom that demand strong guarantees on Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability. Yet,…

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Modern real-time systems generate an exponentially increasing number of events. These events offer an invaluable opportunity to respond, but that opportunity is fleeting, lasting only within milliseconds. But, making the right decision at the right time isn’t just about speed – it’s…

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The rapid growth and proliferation of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is changing the way organizations collect, process, and utilize operational data. As the global IoT market continues to grow rapidly — it’s expected to bring in $1.2 trillion in 2023 and $2.2…

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The convergence of two powerful technologies — edge computing and the Internet of Things (IoT) — is transforming the way organizations generate, process, manage, and utilize data. As more and more organizations deploy IoT devices — according to a new report from STL Partners, the market for…

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TechSparks’23, organized by YourStory Media, was an amazing three-day conference covering valuable insight and learnings from the very top of the Indian government to founders of transformative companies growing at speed. The theme of the conference was “The Great Indian Techade,” and the…

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THIS BLOG IS PART 2 OF A 3-PART SERIES. PART 1 DELVED INTO BENCHMARK DATA. PART 3 WILL DISCUSS SPECIFIC VOLT + REDPANDA USE CASES. Needing to act quickly on data is not a new imperative. What is new is the need…

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My colleagues and I just got back from TM Forum’s Data Transformation World (DTW) 2023 in Copenhagen. This was our second year attending and definitely won’t be our last! Unlike Mobile World Congress (MWC), which is amazing but can sometimes feel overwhelming, DTW operates on a…

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INTRODUCTION The desire and need to use data in “real time” is driving an evolution from slow, batch-oriented processing to streaming, event-driven architectures. Fully capitalizing on real-time data means identifying and acting on the moment of “significance”—i.e., the moment of customer engagement…

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In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital connectivity, private networks are emerging as a critical solution for organizations and industries seeking more secure, more reliable computing infrastructure. Unlike traditional multi-tenant public networks, private networks give organizations enhanced control and can be customized…

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We’re excited to announce very strong results from benchmarking Volt Active Data on Supermicro edge hardware. Supermicro is a global technology leader committed to delivering first-to-market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, Metaverse, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. They are a rack-scale total IT…