Streaming/Kafka
Insights on building, scaling, and enforcing real-time decisions in modern data-driven systems.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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ACID Without Locks: Why Deterministic Concurrency Works
Is your database truly ACID compliant—or just locked down by compromises? In the ever-evolving landscape of databases, ACID compliance remains…
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7 Data Patterns That Demand Volt for Streaming Decisions
Modern real-time systems generate an exponentially increasing number of events. These events offer an invaluable opportunity to respond, but that…
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When NoSQL Isn’t Enough: The Need for a Stronger Data Platform
Introduction NoSQL databases and data platforms have gained widespread adoption over the past decade, offering flexible schema design, horizontal scalability,…
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Understanding Volt Active Stream Processing
Processing data streams in real time has become essential for modern businesses. The rapid increase in data generation and the…
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Top 3 Kafka Streams Challenges
We’ve been writing a lot about challenges lately. We recently wrote about API challenges – now we’re discussing challenges with Kafka Streams. …
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Top 5 Real-Time Data Processing Trends of 2023
2023 was a huge year for real-time data processing. Enterprises are more focused than ever using real-time data to guide…
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New Benchmark: Volt Very Cost-Effective at Scale on Amazon Hardware
Volt has been involved with the Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB) for some time. Every now and then we re-run the benchmark…
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How to Add Real-Time Decisioning to Streaming Data
Streaming data has become practically ubiquitous. From social media feeds to IoT sensors, businesses are now inundated with real-time data.…
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When Does Streaming Data Become Real-Time Data?
We’ve been hearing a lot about real-time data platforms and also about streaming data and streaming data-enabling messaging technology such…
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