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What does it mean to be "truly" asynchronous?
Reading the Proactor pattern paper, specifically this part:
I/O Completion Ports in Windows NT: The Windows NT operating system implements the Proactor pattern. Various Asynchronous Operations such ...
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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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Changes that aren't changes (The AAA problem)?
Suppose an application records a version marker on some data.
For example a database application might record UPDATE_TS as a datetime when a record was updated.
It could just be an integer version ...
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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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What are the approaches for joining data in distributed processing
Let's suppose I have a processing workflow of:
Where:
The workflow can have many instances running at the same time.
A1 -> B1, C1 -> D1
A2 -> B2, C2 -> D2
and so on...
Each node is an ...
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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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TCP connection-oriented synchronous data write
thinking about the design of an IoT project where the devices don't have a standard application layer but rather a thin custom application layer utilizing TCP sockets. What I mean by this is that the ...
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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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Should I create two synchronous or a single asynchronous rest APIs?
Here is the situation. System A sends the notification as it completes the work items to System B. System A does not know how many items the project consists of. It's just a pass-through system. ...
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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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Asynchronous communication with legacy system
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My task is to create new system (X) for realtime work tracking for internal use. You should think it like an app that you have opened on a separate monitor/ on phone all day and you are ...
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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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Synchronisation of different "channel" in an asynchronous way
I have a scenario where a service needs to update back and forth information from different channels (and each channel should have the same information, e.g inventory of products).
It all works fine ...
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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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Is it good approach to await async tasks in object destructor?
I'm currently working on class with some async tasks under the hood. In fact I need to delegate few tasks to asynchronous execution and be sure that all of them are finished before class was destroyed,...
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