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Fast Data Recipe: Design Data Pipelines
Key TakeawaysProcessing big data effectively often requires multiple database engines, each specialized to a purpose.Data arriving at high-velocity, ingest-oriented systems…
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Openet uses fast data to drive down TCO and support mobile data in real-time
Key TakeawaysOpenet provides real-time BSS to over 600 million mobile users, enabling mobile operators to monetize data use.In 2012, Openet…
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Fast Data Recipe: Integrate Streaming Aggregations and Transactions
Key TakeawaysHigh-speed transactional applications process streams of incoming events for use cases like real-time authorization and billing.Writing these applications requires…
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Comparing Cloud Performance With YCSB
Key TakeawaysSoftLayer Bare Metal outperformed full PaaS cloud offerings in both performance and price/performance for the specific YCSB workload B…
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How we Test at Volt Active Data
Key TakeawaysQuality is integrated throughout the development process, starting from the initial planning stages with a strong "Definition of Done"…
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Accelerating continuous integration with Docker – an intern’s story
Key TakeawaysDocker containers can accelerate continuous integration by efficiently utilizing resources and reducing wasted time compared to traditional CI setups.Docker's…
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An intern’s experience with Volt Active Data Materialized Views
Key TakeawaysYiqun Zhang worked as a software engineering intern on the SQL core team at Volt Active Data, focusing on…
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Bringing Rack-Aware Topology to Volt Active Data
Key TakeawaysVolt Active Data cluster initialization involves determining the cluster topology, including placement of partition masters and replicas on physical…
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Getting around the Transparent Huge Pages trap in Linux
Key TakeawaysThe resident set size (RSS) of the Volt Active Data process kept growing when the database was idle on…
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NoSQL vs. NewSQL: Choosing the Right Tool
Key TakeawaysNoSQL is a broad category of technologies and the term offers little help in finding the right tool for…
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FoundationDB’s Lesson: A Fast Key-Value Store is Not Enough
Key TakeawaysFoundationDB attempted to add SQL and other query layers on top of its core key-value store to increase flexibility.The…
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How Docker Simplifies Distributed Systems Development at Volt Active Data
Key TakeawaysWorking on distributed systems is fun, but not easy, particularly setting up environments, starting processes, and monitoring them on…