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Designing persistence guarantees in an ingestion pipeline with a non-customizable intermediary
I’m migrating a large volume of historical RRD data into a VictoriaMetrics cluster. By design, vminsert buffers and asynchronously forwards data to vmstorage. This makes it unclear when data is ...
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Does it make sense for an API with 1 daily job to do to be asynchronous?
This is a conceptual question about whether my specific use-case warrants the use of an asynchronous API. Language: Python 3.11 Framework: FastAPI (ASGI) I believe I am confused about what an ...
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Can multiple producers cause events with the same key to be enqueued out of order within a specific partition of a topic?
I'm aiming to create a simple event-driven system where each microservice operates with its own database. The idea is to share database changes across microservices through events. To ensure proper ...
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Asynchronous HTTP request pattern
Here is the pattern that I thought about for a resource accepting a single asynchronous HTTP request at a time (i.e. a request which has not yet been fulfilled when the response is sent): Create a ...
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How to sync async and await Tasks?
With threads you could use Semaphore, mutex, ManualResetEvent, etc... to sync a shared data, how do you accomplish the same thing with tasks? Essentially, if I have shared data between different ...
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Is microservices architecture a good candidate for a pipeline?
I have a monolithic application which can be divided into multiple steps and different steps have variable scaling requirement, however the input of the next step is the output of the current step. ...
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Designing sane messaging paradigm for concurrent updates
We have a weird use-case that I need to support in my application and needed some opinions on how to design it. At a basic level the application allows users to work on a "list" of "tweets" she cares ...
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Long running REST API in PHP, async?
I have a RESTful API built with PHP. In POST request saving to DB is triggered. The problem is that now I have to support long running tasks. For example a user triggers POST request that is going to ...
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