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How to Recover from Inconsistent Job State without Database Polling
I'm working on scaling an application which is currently polling a mySQL database to send async jobs to a background processing system.
A state machine is being used to keep track of the entities ...
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Why database as queue so bad? [closed]
I've just read this article, and I'm confused.
Let's imagine 1 webapp and 1 distinct application acting as "worker", both sharing the same database.
Oh, I said "sharing"..but what does the article ...