Vlog Archives - VoltDB

Introducing VoltML – The path to operationalizing machine learning just got much faster

By Chai Bhat

Traditionally advanced analytics was utilized primarily to gain an historical understanding of business performance. Data scientists spent countless hours mining, munging, and model building; wasting expensive resources and valuable time only to get a rear view understanding of business performance. Starting Now: Use Models to Automate Real-time Decision-making Until recently it was just not possible [...]

October 23, 2018
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VoltDB Innovation Week: Driving Product Roadmap

By VoltDB Blog Staff

Recently we held our Q1 Innovation Week, culminating in presentations and voting on the innovation projects created by our engineering staff. VoltDB engineering is a Agile scrum organization, with two week sprints, and product releases every other sprint. Innovation week occurs one week every quarter. During this week engineers work on a self-directed project, such […]

April 13, 2018
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QuickStart Video: Using VoltDB With Docker

By VoltDB Blog Staff

Docker is a powerful tool that many of our customers and community members use for the development and testing of distributed systems. What You'll Learn in This Video Recently, our Customer Success Manager, Ben Ballard, presented a Quick Start Tutorial on this topic. In his presentation, Ben covered a number of topics, including: Getting VoltDB [...]

January 16, 2018
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The Open Source Real-Time Question (and Fast Data Answers)

By VoltDB Blog Staff

Rising Amounts of Information As we look at total amount of information created world wide, we see an exponentially rising curve. According to the Kleiner Perkins 2017 Internet Trends study, the amount of total information generated in the world today is about 16 zettabytes (zb). Based on Kleiner estimates, this number will grow at least […]

October 24, 2017
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Vlog: Why Our Interns, the Future in Engineering, Love VoltDB

By VoltDB Blog Staff

Every summer, we give undergraduate and graduate students a chance to learn about working in a fast-paced startup. This year, we were joined by a number of interns who quickly made their mark on our company. As the summer starts to draw to a close, we sat down with them and asked them about why […]

August 22, 2017
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Vlog: The History and Future of the Blurring of Stream Processing & OLTP

By VoltDB Blog Staff

Recently, our founding Engineer, John Hugg, spoke at Berlin Buzzwords. This vlog contains the video of his presentation there. What’s Covered in this Video? There has been so much noise surrounding advances in analytical systems lately that Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) problems may seem a bit overshadowed. Big data, streaming analytics, machine learning, and even […]

August 9, 2017
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What is Innovation Week at VoltDB?

By VoltDB Blog Staff

Recently we held our Q2 Innovation Week, culminating in presentations and voting on the innovation projects created by our engineering staff. VoltDB engineering is a Agile scrum organization, with two week sprints, and product releases every other sprint. Innovation week occurs one week every quarter. During this week engineers work on a self-directed project, such […]

July 13, 2017
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Latency: Will it undermine the most interesting 5G use cases?

By David Rolfe

One of the big topics at the OpenStack conference was how to prepare and implement a successful transition to 5G. Unfortunately, this means that the age-old Telco bugbears will rear their ugly heads again, including latency. 5G, as a fundamental requirement, mandates a 1 millisecond latency from the datasource to its destination. Currently, most applications […]