Tag: real-time
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How Will Edge and Industrial IoT Converge? These Use Cases Provide Some Hints
Read more: How Will Edge and Industrial IoT Converge? These Use Cases Provide Some HintsIn recent years, two rapidly developing technologies have been transforming the way organizations build and use applications: edge computing and the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT). In the simplest terms: edge computing refers to processing data at or very close to where it’s generated; Industrial…
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The Power of Real-Time Data Processing
Read more: The Power of Real-Time Data ProcessingOver the last ten years, there’s been a lot of talk about real-time data and real-time decisioning, and how they promise to transform how organizations operate. Up until recently, however, “real time” didn’t actually mean “real time” — it meant something closer to “as…
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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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Why Monetizing 5G is Becoming a Reality
Read more: Why Monetizing 5G is Becoming a RealityLast week I had the chance to speak in two separate panels at RCR Wireless’s 5G Monetization Forum: “Creating a Win-Win Business Model for all Players in the Value Chain“ and “Scaling with Flexibility. Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) – Monetizing a world of…
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5 Data Trends to Watch for in 2023
Read more: 5 Data Trends to Watch for in 2023As 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…
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What is an Event-Driven Microservices Architecture?
Read more: What is an Event-Driven Microservices Architecture?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: What is an event? As the name suggests, an event occurs when some specific action…
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What is Eventual Consistency?
Read more: What is Eventual Consistency?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…
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Difference Between a Customer Data Platform and a Regular Data Platform
Read more: Difference Between a Customer Data Platform and a Regular Data PlatformWhile customer data platforms (CDPs) and “regular” data platforms, or data management platforms, might sound similar and might provide organizations with similar benefits, they are not the same. They can, however, be used in conjunction with one another in order to enrich…
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Top 4 Trends in Multi-Access Edge Computing
Read more: Top 4 Trends in Multi-Access Edge ComputingOver the last few years, the market for multi-access edge computing (MEC) has changed considerably. In 2020, just 7% of communications service providers (CSPs) had deployed MEC solutions commercially, according to a new report from TM Forum. Fast-forward to today, and more and…
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5G Orchestration: A Critical Enabler of New Revenue Streams (Webinar Q&A)
Read more: 5G Orchestration: A Critical Enabler of New Revenue Streams (Webinar Q&A)This blog provides the Q&A from the Jun. 21 STL Partners and Volt Active Data webinar, “5G Orchestration: A Critical Enabler of New Revenue Streams”. Some of the webinar’s insights were based on a survey of 146 executives from telcos, vendors, and application providers across…