Kafka Event Stream Processing at Scale: Common Kafka Challenges
Everyone has Kafka issues. Well, maybe not everyone, but most companies that end up using Apache Kafka in any meaningful way do end up facing certain Kafka challenges, most of which aren’t necessarily easy to resolve. First off — why are companies even using Kafka in the first place? In today’s real-time era, more and [...]
Why Monetizing 5G is Becoming a Reality
Last week I had the chance to speak in two separate panels at RCR Wireless’s 5G Monetization Forum: “Creating a Win-Win Business Model for all Players in the Value Chain“ and “Scaling with Flexibility. Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) - Monetizing a world of Capabilities”. The common thread? 5G and its use cases. Ever since 5G [...]
5 Data Trends to Watch for in 2023
As 2023 gets going, most companies are still pretty obsessed with “data”—as we are. Data is “the new oil”. You knew that already. But trends within the vast data realm come and go and some of them are clearly coming while others are clearly going. As it turns out, 2022 turned out to be a [...]
Top 4 Technical Challenges for Fantasy Sports Apps
In 2021, the fantasy sports market brought in an impressive $24 billion. By 2030, that number is projected to increase to $78.5 billion, growing nearly 14 percent each year. This growth is due to a confluence of factors, including relaxed government regulations and the emergence of several new entrants into the space. With ESPN’s fantasy [...]
Five 5G Use Cases to Look for in 2023
There’s going to be a lot of crazy tech-related predictions for next year. This blog may even be the fourth or fifth (or tenth, for that matter) “2023 predictions” blog you’ve read. But with 5G use cases at the top of so many people’s minds right now, it’s probably a good time to take a [...]
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: Event producers, which detect and send events to routers when they occur, Event routers, which analyze events and determine where to send them, and [...]
