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Last week, I spent a few days in New Orleans for Confluent Current 2025, surrounded by the people who’ve helped build the real-time data movement from the ground up, including engineers, architects, platform leads, and product managers, there to compare notes on…

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Last month, I attended StreamNative’s 2025 Data Streaming Summit, where one trend became unmistakably clear: the center of gravity in AI is shifting from offline model training to agentic AI running directly on real-time streaming systems. Instead of treating AI as a…

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Is your database truly ACID compliant—or just locked down by compromises? In the ever-evolving landscape of databases, ACID compliance remains the gold standard for applications in banking, travel, e-commerce, and telecom that demand strong guarantees on Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability. Yet,…

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Modern real-time systems generate an exponentially increasing number of events. These events offer an invaluable opportunity to respond, but that opportunity is fleeting, lasting only within milliseconds. But, making the right decision at the right time isn’t just about speed – it’s…

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You already know: data has become the cornerstone of innovation, efficiency, and improved customer experiences across industries. Traditionally, organizations have relied on centralized data processing models, where information from edge devices is transmitted to central servers for analysis and real-time decision-making. While…

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Automotive manufacturers face ever-evolving political and technological landscapes that make staying “ahead of the curve” essential not only to success but also to survival. A key way they can do this is by embracing and taking full advantage of the latest tools…

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Introduction NoSQL databases and data platforms have gained widespread adoption over the past decade, offering flexible schema design, horizontal scalability, and fast data ingestion. While NoSQL databases are an unquestioned market success, they are not a silver bullet. Businesses handling mission-critical, high-velocity…

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Processing data streams in real time has become essential for modern businesses. The rapid increase in data generation and the demand for immediate decision-making have rendered traditional batch processing inadequate. Simply collecting and analyzing data after the fact is no longer enough—companies…

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We’ve been hearing a lot about real-time data platforms and also about streaming data and streaming data-enabling messaging technology such as Apache Kafka. The idea is to turn your streaming data into real-time data by using it while it still has value.…

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Simply put: in the year 2023 and for the foreseeable future, businesses need to be able to process and analyze data in real time to remain competitive. Streaming data platforms such as Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, AWS Kinesis, and…

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Streaming data is data that flows in continuously from highly distributed sources. These data streams are constantly feeding data that data platforms can use or act upon dynamically and in real time, without the need to download or batch it first. Data streams…

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We are hard at work on Volt Active Data and are pleased to release V9. This release focuses on new ways to work with the torrents of streaming data that Volt Active Data can ingest, making Volt Active Data the best technology…