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Drive Real-Time Insights With The Global Data Mesh

Learn how the Global Data Mesh addresses today's data disconnect by making data discoverable, accessible, and interoperable.

May 24, 2023

Leverage Real-Time Data For Effective Customer Retention

Learn how real-time data, analytics, and AI can play a crucial role in the retention/ loyalty phase of the eCommerce customer journey.

May 22, 2023

Advanced Digital Rights Management For OTT Video Streaming Services

Explore the significance of DRM and learn about the features of the Macrometa platform that enable OTT video streaming services to simplify DRM.

May 18, 2023

Drive Sales with Real-Time Data In The Ecommerce Customer Journey

Explore the key strategies and technologies that can be employed to optimize the conversion/purchase phase, ultimately leading to higher sales.

May 17, 2023

Enhancing The Ecommerce Customer Journey With Real-Time Analytics And Personalization

Unlock the key to customer engagement in the eCommerce journey by harnessing the power of cutting-edge technologies.

May 12, 2023

Optimizing Website Performance In The Ecommerce Customer Journey

Learn how website optimization can improve customer experiences for the first stage of the eCommerce customer journey.

May 05, 2023

Expand Multimedia Storytelling And API Revenue Streams

Learn how the Macrometa GDN, a hyper distributed cloud platform, is designed to address the most pressing challenges faced by media organizations.

May 02, 2023

Introducing the Shastra of Macrometa: Harnessing Real-Time Data with a Hyper Distributed Cloud

In the Shastra of Macrometa, written by CEO and Co-founder Chetan Venkatesh, you'll discover the core principles behind enabling real-time data.

Apr 28, 2023

Category Visionaries Podcast - Hyper Distributed Cloud for the Next Generation of Applications

Listen to a podcast about insights into the world of data infrastructure, the latest real-time data trends, and the origin of Macrometa.

Apr 25, 2023

Deliver Personalized Travel Experiences With Real-Time Data

Macrometa's hyper-distributed cloud platform provides travel companies with the power of real-time data insights to stay ahead of the competition.

Apr 20, 2023

Tutorial: Experience The Power Of Macrometa Query Workers

Macrometa Query Workers offer a range of benefits for developers looking to streamline their data processing workflows and optimize their queries.

Apr 18, 2023

Accelerating Digital Transformation in Manufacturing With A Hyper Distributed Cloud

Macrometa helps manufacturers respond to challenges and adopt emerging technologies with seamless data integration, real-time monitoring, and analytics.

Apr 07, 2023

Building a Hyper-Distributed Shoe Store Inventory API with Macrometa

Learn about the advantages of using Macrometa over centralized clouds and build a shoe store catalog API that provides CRUD and search.

Apr 06, 2023

The Journey To A Data-Driven Enterprise

To become a data-driven enterprise, businesses need to collect, process, and analyze data in real-time from various sources.

Apr 01, 2023

Simplify Logistics By Making Shipments Happen In Real Time

In this blog we will explore how technology is enabling logistics companies to become more innovative, efficient, and agile.

Mar 30, 2023

Transforming Guest Experiences with Real-Time Data

Learn how Macrometa can improve guest experiences with personalization, real-time data synchronization, and data protection.

Mar 29, 2023

Low-Code and Poly Clouds in 2023: The Future of Cloud Computing

Low-code and poly clouds offer a simplified way for businesses to manage cloud environments and streamline application development and deployment.

Mar 29, 2023

Minimize Financial Services Fraud In Real Time With Macrometa

Macrometa's hyper distributed cloud provides comprehensive fraud detection that helps organizations stay ahead of threat actors.

Mar 28, 2023

Next Generation OTT Video Services: Ad Cohort Mapping And More

OTT Video Services can optimize online advertising delivery and provide dynamic, personalized experiences with Macrometa.

Mar 23, 2023

Increase Viewership With Better Search And Content Results

By leveraging Macrometa’s advanced search and real-time data analytics, OTT Video Services can deliver effective content recommendations and search results.

Mar 23, 2023

Streamline Macrometa API design and testing with Postman

Learn how you can become more efficient with API design, testing, and creating related documentation using Postman in Macrometa in this tutorial.

Mar 06, 2023

Macrometa Tutorial: Redis As An Interface

Learn how Macrometa supports Redis as an interface using a console, an API call, or an SDK. In this blog, we run through some examples to help you get started.

Jan 25, 2023

Faster Apps At The Edge With A Geo-Distributed & Replicated Cache

Bring your data to the edge! Cache data closer to where it originates and where it is needed with the Macrometa GDN. See highlights from our cache whitepaper.

Jan 24, 2023

Enhanced Gaming Experience on Edge: Macrometa in Action

To learn more about Macrometa’s edge computing platform and how it can revolutionize gaming, check out Macrometa’s gaming video demo on YouTube.

Jan 20, 2023

How to become a Macrometa Expert

We’re helping developers build real-time apps and APIs in minutes. If you want to become a Macrometa expert, we have these resources that can help.

Jan 13, 2023

Inside Macrometa 2022, And A Blazing Start To An Excitingly Futuristic 2023!

Macrometa’s 2022 year in review: our successes, our plans for 2023, and our ambitious vision for the future to help our customers move their business forward.

Jan 05, 2023

Driving Low Latency With Global PoPs

PoPs serve as a point of access to enable organizations to build distributed applications and services with low latency. Learn more about how PoPs work.

Dec 22, 2022

How to Create Better Gaming Experiences on the Edge

Gaming has large volumes of data with unpredictable traffic that requires continuous uptime. Our GDN & the Edge reduces lag and compare TCP and UDP options.

Dec 13, 2022

A Data Mesh Is The New Octopus Garden

Macrometa CEO and Co-founder, Chetan Venkatesh, discusses the similarities between Macrometa’s Global Data Mesh and an octopus garden.

Dec 12, 2022

Computing On The Edge: Screaming In The Cloud Podcast Recap

What is the edge & how is it different from the cloud? Help developers lower their carbon footprints with Global Data Mesh, Edge Compute, and Data Protection.

Dec 03, 2022

Macrometa Launches A Public Slack For The Developer Community

We're excited to share that we launched a public Slack for the Macrometa Community to help users to engage with each other and with some of us at Macrometa.

Nov 17, 2022

Has Macrometa Cracked The Code For Delivering Data Value?

Macrometa Global Data Network architecture, data mesh, edge compute, & data protection features deliver real-time data value.

Nov 12, 2022

The Rise Of The Wireless Cloud: How DISH Wireless And Macrometa’s Collaboration Will Make The 5G Wireless Network And Edge Powerful

How DISH Wireless and Macrometa’s collaboration will make the 5G wireless network and edge more powerful and easier to program than today’s public cloud.

Nov 12, 2022

Customer Stories

Is Low Code The Future of Enterprise Edge?

Sneak a glimpse at what happens when low code meets the Global Data Network.

Nov 11, 2022

What Macrometa Customers Are Building On The GDN

Apps and companies that take advantage of real-time data processing, global distribution, and low latency analytics at the edge.

Nov 10, 2022

How DevCycle Built The World's Fastest Feature-Flag-As-A-Service On Macrometa

Learn how DevCycle is working with Macrometa to build Edge flags, an ultra low-latency global solution to deploy software faster and reduce release complexity.

Nov 10, 2022

How Arrive Conquers Lag And Accelerates Esports Traffic With Macrometa Global Data Network

Taric Mirza, Founder & CEO at Arrive, with Alan Evans, Principal Technologist at Macrometa explain how Arrive conquers lag by finding the fastest network route.

Nov 10, 2022

Customer Stories

Out-Thinking Attackers With Graphs: Why AppSecEngineer Chose Macrometa Over Cloudwatch

Why AppSecEngineer replaced Cloudwatch and chose Macrometa to build effective defenses.

Nov 10, 2022

Expanding The Edge With Macrometa And Akamai

The CDN meets the GDN! Macrometa & Akamai are together enabling a new era of digital transformation for enterprises. It's a supercloud powered by the edge.

Nov 10, 2022

Announcing Macrometa Latest Release - Global Data Network 17.11

General Availability of Stream Workers, Search, Public Preview Akamai EdgeWorkers Integration, & Beta Availability of SQL, Apache Kafka Wire & Redis

Nov 09, 2022

Announcing Stream Workers: Complex Event Processing And Streaming Analytics At The Edge

We’re excited to announce the general availability of Macrometa Stream Workers, Macrometa’s complex event processing (CEP) and streaming analytics engine.

Nov 08, 2022

The Macrometa Platform Now Supports The SQL Language

By popular demand, SQL support is here! Relational, non-relational, it’s all the same to us. Read all about it and watch a demo on how it works.

Nov 08, 2022

Announcing Macrometa Search: Powerful Full-Text Search, As Easy As Writing A SQL Query

We’re excited to announce general availability of Macrometa Search in the Global Data Network. Macrometa Search is now available to all Macrometa customers.

Nov 08, 2022

Macrometa’s New UI And Design Process - Unravelling An Aesthetic Pleasure

Macrometa Head of Design - Dustin Larimer, shares a peek into his team’s effort to craft a new visual aesthetic, brand system, and design system.

Nov 08, 2022

Welcome to Developer Week Day 1

Macrometa talks about how the future is edge native and what's in store for Developer Week. Build next-gen apps with Macrometa and friends November 7-11.

Nov 07, 2022

Building Systems & Macrometa GDN From First Principles

First principles thinking is an approach to building systems to solve problems. Break down problems into essential elements & assemble them to solve a problem.

Nov 07, 2022

Calling All Developers To The Edge - Announcing Developer Week

Join Macrometa & friends for Developer Week Nov 7- 11 (online & async) to build on the edge. Learn about features, demos, and view what's next on the roadmap.

Oct 25, 2022

Say Yes To The Data Mesh: Explore Multi-Model Data Collections And Stores At The Edge

Learn how different types of data can be stored, accessed, and processed where it originates and/or where it is needed with Macrometa Global Data Mesh.

Oct 19, 2022

Beyond Cloud Computing: The Advent Of GDN

Shifts in cloud computing highlight future needs. Our CTO, Durga, talks in detail about the benefits of Global Data Network technology.

Oct 18, 2022

How To Scale To “Trillion Events Per Minute” - With Ease And Without Downtime

Learn about Project Parsec, Macrometa’s geo-aware and latency-aware router that helps you do more with data.

Oct 11, 2022

Macrometa At Current 2022 Kafka Summit Organized By Confluent

Macrometa is a proud sponsor of the Current 2022 - the next generation Kafka Summit organized by Confluent happening in beautiful Austin, Texas October 4-5.

Oct 01, 2022

Tutorial: Implement Complex Event Processing In Macrometa Within Minutes

Macrometa Complex Event Processing (CEP) is powered by Stream Workers. Learn how easy it is to use Stream Workers in the Macrometa GDN.

Sep 21, 2022

Reinventing The Wheel: How DevCycle Made Saving User Data Fast With Macrometa

DevCycle explored several options when considering how to store user data. They needed low latency read times & Macrometa was their savior.

Sep 16, 2022

Choosing A Complex Event Processing Engine: Macrometa Vs Apache Spark And Apache Flink

Learn about Complex Event Processing (CEP) with Macrometa compared to streaming analytics with Apache Spark and Apache Flink. Explore Macrometa's CEP engine.

Sep 14, 2022

The Future Of Cloud Gaming: Thoughts On Intricately’s 2022 Cloud Gaming Report

The gaming expands with emerging tech such as microservices, artificial intelligence, and blockchain driving innovation across hardware, software, and services.

Aug 29, 2022

How Retailers Can Drive Sales And Better Customer Experiences With Real-Time Inventory

Learn how a real-time, global view of inventory improves sales and customer experiences. Retailers can take advantage of the power of omnichannel experiences.

Aug 05, 2022

The Future Of Retail Depends On Real-Time Inventory Tracking

Retail shoppers demand a consistent omnichannel experience. Macrometa can deliver real-time inventory across all geographies to boost customer satisfaction.

Aug 02, 2022

Macrometa Is Now SOC 2 Type 2 Certified

Macrometa has successfully completed System and Organization Controls (SOC 2) Type 2 Certification to meet the highest industry standards of data security.

Jul 21, 2022

Beyond Text Search: Exploring Advanced Search Capabilities With Macrometa

Learn more about the advanced search capabilities — range queries, faceted search, and geospatial search — of the Macrometa Global Data Network.

Jul 05, 2022

Advanced Text Search With Macrometa

View this tutorial about prefix matching, full-text token search, and phrase and proximity search in this second blog of the search patterns series.

Jul 02, 2022

Expand Your Search Capabilities With The Macrometa Global Data Network

This first blog in the Macrometa search patterns series provides a detailed classification overview and a step-by-step guide for exact value matching.

Jun 25, 2022

Four Ways To Establish User Access Control With Macrometa

Learn how to set up who can view or modify data at the document-level and collection-level by applying attributes to your Macrometa GDN user accounts & API keys

Jun 11, 2022

Using Macrometa Stream Workers In A Real-Time Log Analytics Dashboard

Learn how Macrometa Stream Workers are used for Complex Event Processing of data in motion.

Jun 07, 2022

How To Build A Crypto Arbitrage Trading Bot

In this sample app, learn how to build a crypto trading bot to trade locally in multiple exchanges including Coinbase, Bitflyer, and Bitstamp.

May 13, 2022

What Is Stateful Serverless?

A conversation with Redmonk Analyst Kelly Fitzpatrick

May 11, 2022

The Great Shift - Edge Computing & Faster Data Processing

The cloud is now a barrier to solving emerging data problems. Faster data processing requires more than yesterday's cloud, it needs an edge computing platform.

May 03, 2022

Build A Real-Time Log Analytics Dashboard With Fastly And Macrometa

Learn how a real-time log analytics dashboard gives developers superpowers with data storage and processing in one friendly interface.

Apr 12, 2022

Build Geo-Distributed Apps With The New Macrometa CLI

Live in 17.8, the Macrometa CLI lets developers build geo-distributed serverless apps and create a backend in just a few simple calls.

Apr 01, 2022

Fastly Partners With Macrometa For Compute@Edge Partner Ecosystem

Build on Fastly Compute@Edge and stream in real-time on Macrometa’s Global Data Network (GDN)

Mar 03, 2022

Introducing GeoFabrics

Live in 17.7, GeoFabrics gives users more control over where and how they can access and store data.

Feb 10, 2022

The Octopus And Macrometa

Macrometa's CEO & Co-Founder Chetan Venkatesh reveals the backstory of the Octopus

Jan 20, 2022

Why Roma Shah Joined Macrometa

Roma Shah, our new Program Manager, explains how the core values of Honest, Humble, Heart brought them to Macrometa.

Jan 07, 2022

The Top 5 Use Cases For 5G

5G offers reduced latency, high reliability, and large bandwidth, but which use cases make the most sense? 5G is changing the way we see and experience data.

Oct 13, 2021

How 5G Gaming Will Change the Industry

The 5G era of gaming offers lower latency, personalization, and next-gen digital experiences. Developers need a platform to make it happen.

Sep 23, 2021

Why Eddie Garcia Joined Macrometa

Eddie Garcia, our new CISO/CDO/CIO, explains why the potential of the GDN for new technology breakthroughs brought him to Macrometa

Sep 21, 2021

How To Build Applications The Edge Native Way

To fulfill the promise of 5G, learn how developers and mobile network operators can use an edge computing platform.

Jul 21, 2021

Cloud Native Is Not Edge Native

Learn more about why cloud native's centralized architecture just can’t meet the challenges of the edge. We need to start thinking edge natively.

Jun 24, 2021

Announcing Macrometa’s $20M Series A round led by Pelion

Macrometa has raised a $20M Series A round led by Pelion Ventures.

Jun 16, 2021

Macrometa partners with Cloudflare to extend the Edge

Macrometa & Cloudflare enable building apps that require massive investments with high technical risk and complexity to be built intuitively and quickly.

Apr 16, 2021

Solving The Trillion Dollar Data Problem In Edge Computing

The last 15 years have seen several successive waves of big data platforms and companies offering new database and analytics capabilities.

Feb 26, 2021

Announcing Pelion’s Investment In Macrometa

Today I’m incredibly pleased to share that Pelion Ventures has invested in Macrometa.

Nov 18, 2020

Rob Fry On Why You're Doing Cloud Wrong

Customers are frustrated as more loads are moved into public clouds. They need help to deal with cost issues, optimizations, and complexity.

Oct 21, 2020

Jon Gelsey on "Why I Joined Macrometa's Board of Directors"

Jon Gelsey is the former CEO of Identity Authentication Management Unicorn and disruptor Auth0 and XNOR.AI

Oct 07, 2020

Announcing our $7M Seed raise lead by DNX

As I sit here writing these words - I'm struck by the profound serendipity of just having raised a $7M seed financing lead by DNX ventures.

Oct 02, 2020

The "Edge" Is A New Kind Of Vertical Cloud

Cloud vendors see edge computing as extensions to their technologies. It's fallacy that a centralized stack can be extended to work with edge computing.

Sep 24, 2019

The Cloud Is Now The Limitation

Ages ago I had the privilege of building out the first field engineering team for VMware’s Cloud Service Providers.

Sep 21, 2019

The Merits Of Application Hyper-Locality

Apps are hungry for data and performance. Datacenters far away aren’t satisfying. What I could use 5 or 6 datacenters locally? Now my app is blazingly fast.

Sep 17, 2019

Good, Fast Or Cheap - Pick Two

You’ve probably heard that before, and of course it applies whether you’re building a house or a cloud native application.

Sep 14, 2019

The CDN Is Dead, Long Live The GDN*

Companies like Fastly and CloudFlare have entered the CDN market with a focus on helping developers leverage the power of edge computing and hyper-locality.

Sep 03, 2019

Stateful Data At The Edge Needs A New Kind Of CDN

To achieve low latency and high availability, today's web services need to be deployed in data centers that are close to their users.

Aug 23, 2019

Freeing the Database from Cages for Edge Data

Enterprise focus is shifting from cloud towards edge computing, with low latency & real-time processing, but real world applications require state.

Aug 20, 2019

Motivating CRDTs

When deploying applications, developers typically start with a single data center. Not all clients get the same quality of service from a single database.

Aug 14, 2019

Macrometa & AWS Lambda - Geo Distributed Stateful Data For Serverless Functions - A Step By Step Guide

Macrometa is a new kind of database that runs across hundreds of regions and data centers with consistency guarantees, a query language, and serverless API.

Aug 09, 2019

Macrometa's CRDT Edge Database - Implementing Coordination Free Convergence of Data for Edge Computing

Move applications to the edge for latency and availability. Geographically close Point-of-Presence mitigates inaccessibility.

Aug 06, 2019

How To Make Your Own Twitter In 5 Days

The Macrometa Data platform is designed to 'just work' & offload the burden of scaling stateful components, databases, & streams from application architecture.

Aug 02, 2019

CastleKnight - Using Macrometa's Edge Database & Streaming Engine To Build Low Latency, Realtime Multiplayer Online Games *With Bonus In-Game Chat

In this tutorial, see how game developers use Macrometa GDN for data streaming, storage, & low-level networking inside game engines (like unity or unreal).

Jul 31, 2019

Serving Your Users Globally, Faster

The fast growth of Mobile Apps, Web Apps, Single Page Apps, and APIs is a sign of the demand for speed and faster user experiences by users.

Jul 26, 2019

Create Global Apps & APIs In 5 Mins With Macrometa's Seamless Architecture

With Macrometa anyone can run distributed, cross-region, & multi-cloud without worrying about concurrency, consistency, or mastering distributed systems.

Jun 13, 2019

Build Geo-Distributed Apps - Hello Globally Distributed World!

Today is special milestone for Macrometa. Anyone can sign up for a free developer account & build geo distributed apps across our network of global data centers

Jun 13, 2019

Building Applications For The Edge With A Datacentric Model

Contributed by EDGE GRAVITY from their series: Edge Computing Thought Leadership. This collection focuses on new tech & industry leaders in edge computing.

Mar 12, 2019

Why Global Data Network? Or Why We Built A Truly Coordination-Free Distributed Database For Edge Computing

This blog post defines why Macrometa built geo-distributed databases and streams that provide data at the edge.

Mar 05, 2019

Beyond The Cloud: Edge Computing Opens New Frontiers For Online Gaming

Gaming industry veteran, Justin Keeling, asks 'Do we need the next generation of game consoles?' & describes how edge computing is opening new gaming frontiers.

Feb 08, 2019

Cloud Computing Doesn't Matter In 2019

Edge computing is about running applications closer to where we access them, eliminating latency and hops between my Mac and wherever the app calls home.

Feb 07, 2019

Macrometa Exits Stealth With A Planet Scaling Serverless EDGE Cloud - The GDN

Macrometa created a cloud service for Web, Mobile, IoT and Gaming app builders to create sophisticated, real-time, globally distributed, edge applications.

Jan 23, 2019

Livin On The Edge @L8istSh9y Podcast

Macrometa CEO and Co-Founder Chetan Venkatesh sits down with CEO of RackN systems Rob Hirschfeld and CMO Stephen Spector to talk about Edge Computing.

Jan 11, 2019

Edge Computing Is A Distributed Data Problem

In order for robust, world-changing edge native applications to emerge, we must first solve the very thorny problem of bringing stateful data to the edge.

Jan 11, 2019

Public Cloud Is The Apex Predator Of The Internet - CDNs Need To Evolve To Stay Alive

Users expect personalized experiences from anywhere. Content assembled just-in-time via lookups for preferences, history, interests, social connections etc.

Aug 23, 2018

Telecom Providers Need To Win The Battle For THE EDGE To Be More Than Just Data Pipe Providers

To remain relevant in the public cloud via OTTs, telecom providers need to identify growth areas that combine addressable market and existing core competencies.

Mar 20, 2018

A Controversial Take On Edge Computing

Chetan shares his take on how edge computing will evolve and how it's a distributed data problem while helping GSMA with it's global mobile radar report.

Feb 27, 2018