Apache Kafka is not going anywhere. That needs to be said plainly before anything else, because the headlines coming out of this year’s Snowflake Summit and ...
In the ever-evolving landscape of databases, ACID compliance remains the gold standard for applications in banking, travel, e-commerce, and telecom that dema...
I’ve had some version of the same conversation dozens of times. An operator or platform team has invested heavily in an AI-driven decisioning system (fraud d...
DTW Ignite brought together network operators, vendors, and systems integrators to talk about where telecom infrastructure is heading. This year we showed up...
FinNext 2026 brought together leaders from banking, fintech, payments, lending, and technology to talk about where the financial services industry is heading...
NoSQL databases and data platforms have gained widespread adoption over the past decade, offering flexible schema design, horizontal scalability, and fast da...
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 t...
Walking the floors of MWC this year, one thing was immediately clear to me: Agentic AI has officially moved out of the experimental labs and into active...
Modern telco architectures are built to handle scale. On-line systems respond to transactions in milliseconds. Event-driven pipelines move usage records, ala...
Acid transactions, ACID properties, and the CAP theorem are two important concepts in data management and distributed systems. It’s unfortunate that in...
At the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in March 2026, the conversation kept returning to the same problem: organizations have built serious streaming ...