Category: Real-Time Use Cases
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Why You Can’t Retrofit Real-Time Decisioning
Read more: Why You Can’t Retrofit Real-Time DecisioningReal-time decisioning has rapidly gained popularity within the tech zeitgeist, especially with its connection to streaming data. It seems like everything these days either happens in real time or it doesn’t happen at all. But companies are starting to run into a major…
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The Power of Real-Time Data Processing
Read more: The Power of Real-Time Data ProcessingOver the last ten years, there’s been a lot of talk about real-time data and real-time decisioning, and how they promise to transform how organizations operate. Up until recently, however, “real time” didn’t actually mean “real time” — it meant something closer to “as…
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What is an Event-Driven Microservices Architecture?
Read more: What is an Event-Driven Microservices Architecture?An event-driven microservices architecture is an approach to software development where decoupled microservices are designed to communicate with one another when events occur. These architectures are comprised of three critical features: What is an event? As the name suggests, an event occurs when some specific action…
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DTW 2022: APIs, 5G, and Moving on From Legacy
Read more: DTW 2022: APIs, 5G, and Moving on From LegacyMy colleagues and I just got back from TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World (DTW) 2022 in Copenhagen. It was the first in-person DTW in three years and my first time attending. If you’ve never been, it’s kind of like a boutique Mobile World…
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What is Eventual Consistency?
Read more: What is Eventual Consistency?Eventual consistency is a data modeling concept that ensures that updates made to distributed NoSQL databases will eventually be reflected across all nodes. This ensures that identical database queries will return the same results after some period of time. While many new…
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Difference Between a Customer Data Platform and a Regular Data Platform
Read more: Difference Between a Customer Data Platform and a Regular Data PlatformWhile customer data platforms (CDPs) and “regular” data platforms, or data management platforms, might sound similar and might provide organizations with similar benefits, they are not the same. They can, however, be used in conjunction with one another in order to enrich…
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3 Ways Your Hyper-Personalization is Subtracting Value
Read more: 3 Ways Your Hyper-Personalization is Subtracting ValueRecently I flew from Dublin, where I live, to Volt’s new HQ outside Boston. Apart from the usual travel delays and headaches, what made the journey stand out was the significant number of late, delayed, and out-of-context or tone-deaf messages I got…
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What is Quality of Service (QoS)?
Read more: What is Quality of Service (QoS)?Quality of Service (QoS) encompasses the tools and technologies that enable telco operators to ensure networks, applications, and services are highly performant regardless of network capacity. By giving network admins visibility into important metrics and allowing them to allocate bandwidth to mission-critical…
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What is High Availability and Why Do You Need it?
Read more: What is High Availability and Why Do You Need it?High availability describes systems or networks that can operate continuously, with minimal downtime, even during peak usage. The advent of 5G has made high availability more important than ever as it has significantly increased the volume, variety, and velocity of data flowing…
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The (Very Important) Difference Between ‘Reacting’ and ‘Responding’ to Data
Read more: The (Very Important) Difference Between ‘Reacting’ and ‘Responding’ to DataThe data world is changing faster than ever—but it’s always changing faster than ever. The speeds and volumes at which data now enters enterprise systems are of course far greater than even a year ago, and a year ago it was far greater than…
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MWC is Back! Top-Four Takeaways From the Return of the Leading Telco Event
Read more: MWC is Back! Top-Four Takeaways From the Return of the Leading Telco EventIf, like me, you’re a regular attendee of Mobile World Congress (MWC), you probably devoted a lot of time and energy to set up meetings for MWC 2020, only to see it all evaporate before your eyes over the course of a…
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What Is a Cloud-Native Network Function?
Read more: What Is a Cloud-Native Network Function?A cloud-native network function (CNF), also known as container(ized) network function, is a network function designed to run inside containers, which are standardized units of software that bundle code so applications can run seamlessly across different computing environments. CNFs are the latest…