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Oct 19, 2022

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What is an Event-Driven Microservices Architecture?

An event-driven microservices architecture is an approach to software development where decoupled microservices are designed to communicate with one another when events occur. These architectures are comprised of three critical features: What is an event? As the name suggests, an event occurs when some specific action…
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Sep 27, 2022

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DTW 2022: APIs, 5G, and Moving on From Legacy

My colleagues and I just got back from TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World (DTW) 2022 in Copenhagen. It was the first in-person DTW in three years and my first time attending. If you’ve never been, it’s kind of like a boutique Mobile World…
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Sep 20, 2022

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What is Eventual Consistency?

Eventual consistency is a data modeling concept that ensures that updates made to distributed NoSQL databases will eventually be reflected across all nodes. This ensures that identical database queries will return the same results after some period of time. While many new…
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Jul 21, 2022

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What is Enterprise IoT?

Enterprise IoT represents the next phase in the evolution of the Internet of Things, wherein enterprises increasingly invest in connected physical products that have embedded computing devices in them in order to drive operational efficiency, reduce manual work, and otherwise accelerate business…
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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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Jun 9, 2022

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How Telcos Can Decide Which Verticals to Target With Edge Computing

As telcos focus on unlocking the full value of 5G, leading operators are paying more and more attention to the edge. After all, edge computing promises to deliver transformative benefits to operators, enabling them to build next-generation applications for their customers. For example, instead of…
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Apr 26, 2022

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What is Quality of Service (QoS)?

Quality of Service (QoS) encompasses the tools and technologies that enable telco operators to ensure networks, applications, and services are highly performant regardless of network capacity. By giving network admins visibility into important metrics and allowing them to allocate bandwidth to mission-critical…
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Apr 13, 2022

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What is High Availability and Why Do You Need it?

High availability describes systems or networks that can operate continuously, with minimal downtime, even during peak usage. The advent of 5G has made high availability more important than ever as it has significantly increased the volume, variety, and velocity of data flowing…
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Sep 9, 2021

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What is Streaming Data?

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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