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2025 Takeaways: The Year Real-Time got Real
In 2025, real-time decisioning shifted from a technical ambition to a business requirement. As streaming, AI, and edge computing matured, organizations were forced to rethink how quickly, consistently, and safely…
Lessons from the AWS Outage and Why Deterministic Decision Fabrics Matter
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…
Confluent Current 2025: Real-Time AI, Context, and a Streaming Industry at a Crossroads
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…
Agentic AI Takes the Stage: Key Shifts from Data Streaming Summit 2025
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…









