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May 30, 2024

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OEMs: The 6 Questions to Ask Your Data Platform Vendors

OEMs face incredible challenges today. They’re being asked to do more with less as supply chain and operation overrun issues create a legitimate OEM crisis. And yet, more often than not, OEMs don’t consider their underlying tech stack technologies until they are…
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May 15, 2024

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Balancing Low Latency, High Availability, and Cloud Choice

Balancing Low Latency, High Availability and Cloud Choice Cloud hosting is no longer just an option — it’s now, in many cases, the default choice. But the cloud computing market, having grown to a whopping $483.9 billion, may finally be starting to…
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Apr 25, 2024

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What is a Private 5G Network?

To move as fast as they can at scale while protecting mission-critical data, more and more organizations are investing in private 5G networks, also known as private cellular networks or just “private 5G” (not to be confused with virtual private networks, which…
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Apr 11, 2024

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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. Volt is very big on Kafka, as we specialize in complementing it in a really powerful way to allow enterprises to get the most…
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Apr 2, 2024

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ACID vs CAP: What’s the Difference?

Acid transactions, ACID properties, and the CAP theorem are two important concepts in data management and distributed systems. It’s unfortunate that in both acronyms the “C” stands for “Consistency,” but actually means completely different things. What follows is a primer on the…
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Oct 31, 2023

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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 to see how we’re holding up. We recently re-ran it against newer Amazon hardware and discovered that: We’ve also made it possible…
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Oct 25, 2023

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Why Volt is the OLTP Data Platform of Choice

A lot of companies use Volt Active Data for classic Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), but why would you pick Volt as an OLTP data platform and how would a Volt-based OLTP data platform differ from other data platforms in its handling of OLTP?…
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Sep 7, 2023

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Volt Achieves 4.1 Million TPS on Supermicro Edge Hardware

We’re excited to announce very strong results from benchmarking Volt Active Data on Supermicro edge hardware. Supermicro is a global technology leader committed to delivering first-to-market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, Metaverse, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. They are a rack-scale total IT…
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Aug 30, 2023

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5 Tech Stack Mistakes Companies Need to Avoid

Here at Volt we see a lot of customers who come to us having devoted heartbreaking amounts of time, energy, and money to trying to make old and/or broken systems work, before finally realizing that they need a radical change. Below are…
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Mar 9, 2023

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5 Things to Know About Open API Adoption

The adoption of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), open and otherwise, has become a ‘topic du jour’. API usage continues to surge and many API-based tools are emerging to help developers and engineering teams take full advantage of APIs. At the recent Mobile World Congress (MWC)…
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Jan 5, 2023

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5 Data Trends to Watch for in 2023

As 2023 gets going, most companies are still pretty obsessed with “data”—as we are. Data is “the new oil”. You knew that already. But trends within the vast data realm come and go and some of them are clearly coming while others are clearly…
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Jul 7, 2022

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3 Ways Your Hyper-Personalization is Subtracting Value

Recently 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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