Category: Real-Time Use Cases
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Scalable MicroService Architecture
Read more: Scalable MicroService ArchitectureApplication State Management and Data-Driven Decision Making As the complexity of applications and systems increases, the size of the teams that work on these also increase. In these scenarios, having the system as a monolithic one inhibits the development team from being…
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6 Reasons Why Your Machine Learning Project Will Fail to Get Into Production
Read more: 6 Reasons Why Your Machine Learning Project Will Fail to Get Into ProductionThere is a massive difference between generating the input data needed by a Machine Learning model once (to prove a concept), and doing it continuously, indefinitely, at scale, and within short time periods. Years of experience working with disparate and imperfect data…
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How Real Time Are Your Analytics?
Read more: How Real Time Are Your Analytics?Not surprisingly, your business has collected a lot of data over the past few years, and you have used some analytical databases or data warehouses to organize and understand your insights. Congratulations, you have taken the 1st step with your data strategy,…
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Data Strategies for 5G – A Closer Look at Policy Rules and Charging
Read more: Data Strategies for 5G – A Closer Look at Policy Rules and ChargingEditor’s Note: This was originally posted by VanillaPlus, regarding a webinar VanillaPlus hosted featuring Beccham Research and Volt Active Data. With the ever-nearing move to 5G and the impending explosion of industrial IoT use cases, data is going to play a very…
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How to Increase Player Retention and ARPU in a Free-to-Play Market
Read more: How to Increase Player Retention and ARPU in a Free-to-Play Market2017 was a breakout year for mobile gaming. Even though games only accounted for 40% of the total mobile app downloads for 2017, a total of 80% of app spending in 2017 was generated by mobile games. Mobile game spending even out…
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Year in Review: Top 5 Blog Posts from 2017…
Read more: Year in Review: Top 5 Blog Posts from 2017……and What they Say About the Future Happy 2018 everyone! In keeping with the tradition of reflection at the start of a new year, we at Volt Active Data decided to take a look back at the highlights on our database blog…
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4 Sources of Latency and How to Avoid Them
Read more: 4 Sources of Latency and How to Avoid ThemEditor’s Note: This post originally appeared on November 1, 2017 on the InfoWorld blog. It is republished with permission. Even Google and Amazon can’t process data instantly—here’s how to combat latency in your real-time application Despite all the advances we’ve seen in…
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Gamers’ Real-Time Demands: More Challenging than NG+
Read more: Gamers’ Real-Time Demands: More Challenging than NG+Gamers want real-time offers and micro-transactions — but only if they are useful. This is a key finding from The Psychology of Waiting, a survey of 2,000 US consumers conducted by VansonBourne and sponsored by Volt Active Data. Almost 85% of consumers…
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The New Speed of Finance — Fraud Detection and Real-Time Expectations
Read more: The New Speed of Finance — Fraud Detection and Real-Time ExpectationsConsumer finances today largely exist online. More than 60% of consumers reported using a banking website and mobile app, according to The Psychology of Waiting survey, commissioned by Volt Active Data and conducted by VansonBourne. 19% reported using an investment app as…
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What Real-Time Application Pattern Works for You?
Read more: What Real-Time Application Pattern Works for You?3 common real-time application patterns that require a real-time decision Editor’s note: This blog post first appeared on the InfoWorld blog on September 29, 2017. At first glance, building a real-time application may sound like a daunting proposition, one that involves technical…
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How Millennials are Transforming Waiting
Read more: How Millennials are Transforming WaitingMillennials are at the forefront of influencing change across multiple industries. From Applebee’s to Harley’s, real-estate to football, millennials are changing how the economy works. Following basic economic principles, if you don’t meet the demands of this generation, your industry could lag…
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Achieving Immediacy: Operating in a Real-Time World
Read more: Achieving Immediacy: Operating in a Real-Time WorldWe recently commissioned a survey of 2, 000 consumers, examining what ‘real-time’ means to end-users and the potential implications of making customers wait. We dug into the various industries where real-time experiences are crucially important: gaming, advertising, telecommunications and banking. And while…