5 Fast Data Trends in Financial Services
The financial industry is undergoing a fast data revolution and we hear from a lot of our clients about why fast data is becoming an increasingly critical requirement in their IT infrastructure. This blog looks at some of the key trends for leveraging fast data in the financial services industry today. 1. Moving Data at […]
How is Fast Data Transforming the Telco Landscape?
Telco networks have always generated fast data at line speed. In telco use cases like policy management, decisions are already made on that data in near real-time. In many other cases, network and customer data is backhauled into a data lake and analyzed over hours or days to gain insight into the subscriber experience or […]
Go Faster!
Several days ago, I saw a tweet fly by in my stream. The creator of Node.js, Ryan Dahl, was recommending Golang for any new server-side projects. While Node.js is still very popular, the growth in microservices has been driving a more wide-spread adoption of Golang for these projects. Golang is becoming more and more appealing […]
Kafka Summit 2017 – Key Takeaways and Commentary
Last Monday on August 28th, a number of the Volt Active Data staff attended the Kafka Summit in San Francisco. This one-day event brought in over 700 attendees from the developer audience to attend 30+ valuable technical talks and breakout sessions, and meet directly with exhibiting sponsors like Volt Active Data to learn more about […]
Volt Active Data Announces v7.6
We’re ending the summer 2017 season with a bang – our new release, Volt Active Data v7.6, totally eclipses all other Volt Active Data releases with the introduction User Defined Function (UDF) support, a new performance Analysis tab in our Volt Active Data Management Center, and numerous other enhancements. No special sunglasses are needed to […]
Part 2 in Series: Unanswered Q&A from Webinar — “Surviving IoT: How Telcos Can Thrive in the Next Industrial Revolution”
For part 1 of the series, click here. The Internet of Things (IoT) will be a fundamental shift from the current economy, leading some to even claim that IoT will bring about “the next industrial revolution.” Telcos seem to be a position to capitalize on this (all that data has to use a network), but […]
Measuring Real-Time
Editor’s note: This blog post first appeared on the InfoWorld blog on August 28th The term “real-time” is thrown around a lot these days, but it’s a buzzword that is often surrounded by ambiguity. Every day, it seems a new product is announcing its real-time capability. But how is real-time measured? It certainly isn’t measured […]
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Vlog: Why Our Interns, the Future in Engineering, Love Volt Active Data
Every summer, we give undergraduate and graduate students a chance to learn about working in a fast-paced startup. This year, we were joined by a number of interns who quickly made their mark on our company. As the summer starts to draw to a close, we sat down with them and asked them about why […]