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Jun 26, 2024

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What is Intelligent Manufacturing?

Smart, or intelligent, manufacturers are central to the industrial IoT world and always looking for ways to decrease operating expenses,…
Jun 21, 2024

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The 5 Main Challenges With Monetizing AI and ML Data (and How to Fix Them)

Monetizing AI/ML data has become a hot topic for enterprises, and rightly so: We appear at or near ‘peak AI’.…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
Mar 22, 2024

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The 5 Biggest Challenges With APIs

Over the last couple of years, we’ve heard a lot of breathless talk about application programming interfaces (APIs) and how…
Mar 21, 2024

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How Caches Become Databases – And Why You Don’t Want This

Companies like to complicate things. There’s no better way to say it. The law of entropy clearly applies as much…
Mar 13, 2024

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The 6 Rules for Achieving (and Maintaining) High Availability

In the age of big-data-turned-massive-data, maintaining high availability, aka ultra-reliability, aka ‘uptime’, has become “paramount”, to use a ChatGPT word. Why?…
Feb 29, 2024

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Latency vs. Throughput: Navigating the Digital Highway

Imagine the digital world as a bustling highway, where data packets are vehicles racing to their destinations. In this fast-paced…
Feb 20, 2024

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Introducing Volt Active(ISU): Zero-Downtime Upgrades to Improve the Engine While It’s Running

Enterprise customers that require ‘five nines’ availability need it as a guarantee, not just a vague promise. That’s why we’ve…