Timeline for How do we maintain consistent-read promise to clients + handling ID collision when using a fallback queue?
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| Oct 9, 2021 at 0:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSoftEng/status/1446626515513401346 | ||
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| Oct 7, 2021 at 13:47 | comment | added | Ewan | I guess I worry when you start to try and fix something that your underlying system is supposed to do. If the write is always supposed to work but doesnt, will your remedy be any more reliable? Rather than write a fall back for "can't write to db for obscure reason" you might be better writing a "flip to Azure when AWS is down" for those times when something major goes down | |
| Oct 7, 2021 at 13:37 | comment | added | JamesBoyZ | @Ewan that's a good question. Actually, I think I made the wrong statement. We do have a retry process in place to consume from the queue. However, how long some event remains stuck in the queue entirely depends on how long we have trouble with DynamoDB. If Amazon does a good job, it should be short. I took a look at 1 year statistics, we have less than 300 events ever arrived at the fallback queue. Chance of failure is low but we want to use the same system for more services internally going forward. So I'm looking for a way to improve our promise to the clients. | |
| Oct 7, 2021 at 12:56 | answer | added | Ewan | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 7, 2021 at 12:38 | comment | added | Ewan | how short is very short? could you just delay the response a few ms? | |
| Oct 7, 2021 at 11:40 | history | asked | JamesBoyZ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |