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In mid-October 2025, a single race condition in the DNS automation layer behind Amazon DynamoDB triggered one of the largest cloud outages in recent memory. Tens of thousands of businesses experienced downtime, transaction failures, stalled deployments, and cascading service degradation. According to…

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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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Service providers are faced with increasing pressure to modernize their business support systems (BSS) and billing platforms. The explosion of 5G has introduced a level of complexity that legacy architectures simply cannot handle, struggling with millions of concurrent sessions, dynamic pricing models,…

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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…