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Meet The Disruptors Interview: Five Things You Need To Shake Up Your Industry

Meet The Disruptors: Chris Sachs Of Nstream On The Five Things You Need To Shake Up Your Industry In partnership...

Fecent technological advances make it easier than ever to quickly respond to real-time events — a vital capability to have when the unpredictable occurs.
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Could Better Business Visibility Have Mitigated Tech Industry Layoffs?

Another day, another round of tech layoffs. From giants like Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Salesforce to startups and scaleups, tens...

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Nstream Demo: Building a Real-Time Streaming Data Application

Are you looking for better ways to model your business’s ever-evolving state? Join Fred Patton, Nstream Developer Evangelist, as he...

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How Does My Business Benefit from Real-Time Streaming Applications?

Many use cases that exemplify how we think about the future of business revolve around organizations’ ability to make sophisticated...

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Data Streaming Technologies: Which is Right for My Business?

Businesses need to see, interpret, and act on data in real time to remain competitive in the modern business landscape. That...

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How Real-Time Business Logic Leads to Real-Time Business Decisions

On its surface, business logic might look like a long list of tactical rules, procedures, guidelines, and best practices that...

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Why Streaming Apps Matter

Why Streaming Apps Matter In partnership and reprinted from RTInsights Real time is all the rage these days. Perhaps the...

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Data Locality: The Path to Effective Net-Zero Latency

Hear from Nstream Developer Evangelist Fred Patton as he discusses the concept of data locality and its importance in achieving...

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A Powerful Combination: Kafka, Flink, and SwimOS

Hear from Nstream Developer Evangelist Fred Patton as he walks you through a Customer 360 use case. Fred will demonstrate...

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How Does Data Locality Affect Real-Time Streaming Applications?

Companies need to be nimble. With the rapid pace of change we experience today, quarterly — or even annual —...

Fraud detection in real time.
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How to Achieve Real-Time Insights for Fraud Detection

As the volume of global digital activity and financial transactions continues to grow, instances of fraud have become more prevalent...

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How Itron Drives the Future of Smart Power Grids

Smart electrical meters, smart cars, smart cities — the smart power grid has never been in higher demand. The global...

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Streaming Data has an Application Problem

“Data streaming is a requirement to create the real-time digital experiences and efficient operations that are needed to compete and...

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The State of Streaming Data

The application layer will be the next domino to fall in the ongoing transformation from batch to streaming. And one...

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Nstream Cloud PaaS: The Fastest Way to Build Full-Stack Applications with Streaming Data

Nstream Cloud PaaS is the Fastest Way to Build Full-stack Applications with Streaming Data; Early Access Now Open to Developers...

Introducing Nstream: Complete the Data Pipeline with Streaming Applications
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Introducing Nstream: Complete the Data Pipeline with Streaming Applications

Welcome to the evolution of streaming data. Nstream, formerly known as Swim, is ushering in a new era with its...

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Welcome to the Evolution: Nstream

Nstream delivers the fastest way to build full-stack, open-source streaming data applications. Keep watching to understand better how to operate...

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Turning Real-Time Streaming Data Into Financial Security for Your Customers

Nstream enables financial services organizations to build open-source, full-stack applications directly on top of streaming data, providing real-time insights that...

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How Real-Time Streaming Applications Keep Shoppers Happy — And Ready to Spend More

Nstream enables retail organizations to build open-source, full-stack applications directly on top of streaming data, providing real-time insights that organizations...

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Streaming Applications: The Key to Transparent, Resilient Logistics and Supply Chain Systems

Nstream enables logistics and supply chain organizations to build open-source, full-stack applications directly on top of streaming data, providing real-time...

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Nstream: The Fastest Way to Create Streaming Applications from Streaming Data

Nstream enables organizations to build open-source, full-stack applications directly on top of streaming data, providing real-time insights that organizations can...

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Full-Context Business Logic at Half-Ping Latency

A look at Stateful Objects. Hear from Fred Patton, Nstream Developer Evangelist, as he covers how stateful objects sit on...

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Real-time Observability of Everything You Care About

A look at Streaming APIs. Hear from Fred Patton, Nstream Developer Evangelist, that polling is poison and how Nstream’s first-class...

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Adaptive Visualizations to Keep Humans in the Loop

A look at Real-Time UIs. Hear from Fred Patton, Nstream’s Developer Evangelist, as he speaks to the direct connection between...

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Akka vs Nstream: The Key Differences

The Nstream platform simplifies the development and maintenance of real-time streaming applications. Akka gives developers the opportunity to easily create...

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Using a Kafka Broker to Build Real-time Streaming Applications

Many organizations that practice stream processing utilize Kafka brokers, the storage layer servers that are used to host Kafka topics....

Contextual data is data associated with a given entity or object that provides context for that entity or object.
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What is Contextual Data? And, How is it Evolving?

Imagine you’re a credit card company and a charge comes in. All you know is that this charge is larger...

How do Web Agents take digital twins to the next level
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Web Agents: The Future of Digital Twins and Streaming Data

Web Agents are the key to fulfilling the promise of digital twins: real-time observability at scale to drive smarter decision-making....

Microservices help businesses increase the speed of software development.
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Stateful vs. Stateless Microservices: What’s the Difference?

Microservices are the backbone of modern applications. They help businesses increase the speed of software development, seamlessly adopt new technologies...

Digital twins can simplify how real-world objects are managed and coordinated.
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What are Digital Twins? And What’s the Next Evolution?

Simply defined, digital twins are virtual representations of physical objects. Whether duplicating a machine (like how every Tesla has a...

If streaming data is a raging river, then Streaming APIs are the smaller, calmer capillaries that flow from it.
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The Key Differences Between Streaming APIs and REST APIs

Databases are where real-time data streams go to die. They are a dam in the stream, preventing vital, real-time information...

A real-time user interface is one that updates instantaneously.
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The Business Value of a Real-time User Interface

Latency is an issue that would upset a gamer playing online or frustrate a movie-watcher choosing between films. Unfortunately, it...

Importance of Streaming Applications
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What are Real-Time Streaming Applications, and Why Do They Matter?

Whether database, distributed, web, or mobile, all applications are built around a core set of underlying technological capabilities. Notably absent...

Let Event Streams Auto-Build Your Dataflow Pipeline
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Let Event Streams Auto-Build Your Dataflow Pipeline

Brokers don’t run applications – they are a buffer between the real world and an application that analyzes events. An...

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Analyze Kafka Events On-The-Fly

Swim enhances the actor model to support continuous analysis of streaming data from millions of sources in a distributed runtime...

Quick Note on Continuous Analysis
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A Quick Note on Continuous Analysis

Analyzing data on the fly is tricky: Data sets are unbounded and real-time responses demand fast analysis. Incremental algorithms can...

Forget Data - It's State That Matters
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Forget Data – It’s State That Matters

Streaming data contains events that are updates to the states of applications, devices, or infrastructure. When choosing an architecture to...

Brokers are buffers between data sources.
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Brokers Aren’t Databases

The rise of event streaming as a new class of enterprise data that demands continuous analysis is uncontroversial. What’s puzzling...