This is guest post by John Piekos, VP Engineering at VoltDB. I understand this is a little PRish, but I think the ideas are solid. The focus of many developers and architects in the past few years has been on Big Data, specifically mining historical intelligence from the Data Lake (usually a Hadoop stack containing terabytes to petabytes of data). Now, product architects are asking how they can us
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