Why You Can’t Retrofit Real-Time Decisioning
Real-time decisioning has rapidly gained popularity within the tech zeitgeist, especially with its connection to streaming data. It seems like everything these days either happens in real time or it doesn’t happen at all. But companies are starting to run into a major issue with real-time data and real-time decisioning. They’re trying to fit a [...]
Edge IoT Platforms: Verticals and Use Cases Driving Growth (Webinar Q&A)
This blog outlines the Q&A part of the joint STL Partners and Volt Active Data webinar on Edge IoT platforms in February 2023. The speakers are David Rolfe, Head of Product Marketing, Volt Active Data; Joe Hurman, Senior Consultant, STL Partners; and Dalia Adib, Director, STL Partners. On Feb. 21 we hosted a webinar with [...]
How Will Edge and IoT Converge? These Use Cases Provide Some Hints
In recent years, two rapidly developing technologies have been transforming the way organizations build and use applications: edge computing and the Internet of Things (IoT). In the simplest terms: edge computing refers to processing data at or very close to where it’s generated; IoT refers to physical objects connected to the Internet. IoT devices have [...]
The Power of Real-Time Data Processing
Over the last ten years, there’s been a lot of talk about real-time data and real-time decisioning, and how they promise to transform how organizations operate. Up until recently, however, “real time” didn’t actually mean “real time” — it meant something closer to “as fast as is possible with current technology.” Fast-forward a decade, and [...]
Top 5 Apache Kafka Use Cases: When to Use Kafka
Apache Kafka is now the official gatekeeper of streaming data. It’s a distributed data store designed and perfectly calibrated to ingest and process streaming data (ie, data continuously generated by thousands of sources) in real time. As both the amount and value of streaming data rapidly grow, it’s becoming increasingly important for companies to start [...]
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) Barcelona, for example, APIs and API adoption was oft-discussed topics [...]
