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I’m happy to introduce a fully featured, high-performance Volt Active Data client for the go language. The golang client is both feature and performance comparable to the Volt Active Data Java client. Support of golang Standard Library The golang standard library provides…
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I recently joined Volt Active Data as the lead Solutions Architect responsible for helping prospects, customers and partners in the West Coast and Central US. Most recently before joining Volt Active Data, I was part of the professional services group at one…
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Let me start by making an arrogant statement: There is no such thing as eventual consistency. There is only ‘Immediate Consistency’ and ‘Wrong’. A lot of people would regard me as being unreasonable, but from my perspective I have a chain of…
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Volt Active Data hired Kyle Kingsbury, creator of the Jepsen Tests, to build a new, stronger, Jepsen test especially for Volt Active Data. We promise strong serializability in a distributed database, a stronger promise than almost any other system, and we’ve been…
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There’s a very simple distinction in the database world that tends to be ignored. Your database either: Or, it If your database ‘Defines the World’ it means that if it doesn’t happen in the database, it doesn’t happen at all. Amazon.com is…
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Innovation in the telecommunications industry has been led primarily by hardware vendors, offering differentiating capabilities to carriers. This has created an environment of vendor lock-in and staggered progress due to lack of agility. A side effect of this is equipment and infrastructure…
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Volt Active Data was a sponsor of the recent In-Memory Computing Summit in San Francisco. I always enjoy going back to San Francisco. I stayed at a cool flat on Nob Hill and the show was enjoyable and productive – we had…
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Ryan Betts is one of Volt Active Data’s founding developers, and is currently our CTO. He’s been designing and building distributed systems and high-performance infrastructure software for almost 20 years. Chances are, if you’ve used the Internet, some of your ones and…
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Check out or documentation site to learn more about Volt Active Data Cross Data Center Replication. In section 11.3, you’ll learn step-by-step instructions for setting up and running cross datacenter replication (XDCR) between two or more Volt Active Data clusters. The sections…
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Fast Data has changed the way business value is created and captured, opening up a new era of competition and reshaping industries. But evaluating business and technology options for data is complex and rapidly evolving. For example, according to Gartner, through 2018,…
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I recently gave a talk at the Strata + Hadoop World conference in San Jose on the benefits of integration of processing and state and transactions when solving stream processing problems. The talk described how a system like Volt Active Data makes the…
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I changed jobs and companies a very fast 90 days ago, moving from a huge (I like to say that like Bernie Sanders says it, starting with a “Y” – I’m from New York after all) technology company to the much smaller…