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Synchronized computation task distribution

I have a system where a set of Operations needs to be done every day. Each Operation has the following metadata: Type, Entity and a Date (independent of current date). It reads something from the ...
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Where should I store stream wide metadata in stream processing?

I am building a stream processing architecture and was wondering what to do with metadata about the stream. For instance, every message of data coming from a source has the same attribution, as it ...
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Metrics Collector at Microservices

I am developing an application which is based on microservices architecture with Spring Boot. Beside my application jar I have a dashboard application jar too. I want to show some metrics at both my ...
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How to recognize consumers in AMQP architecture

I'm doing an project where I'm using a microservice architecture. All the services within this architecture communicate with each other using an AMQP broker (RabbitMQ). When something happens in a ...
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Using messaging queue as async mysql writes

I read some articles about developers who takes rabbitmq and produce from PHP messages to write to mysql. they do this to make the page speedup and not wait for mysql to return an answer. So in my ...
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Handling changes in a event-driven microservice architecture

I'm doing an research-project where I'm researching the options to handle changes in an event-driven microservice architecture. So, let's say we got an application where we got four different ...
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Best practice for delaying jobs

I have a system in PHP that works like a booking system. Once a booking is confirmed there are a total of 7 emails/sms that needs to be send. The times of when they need to be send are already known. ...
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Service with task queue architecture

I have a REST endpoint that accepts a request from a client. This request needs to be done in steps and involves: 1) request to external service to perform a job 2) after this job is completed ...
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How can an update message from a rabbitmq broker reach all relevant clients via multiple websocket servers?

Lets say I have multiple websocket servers that maintain many connections to clients to send updates. These websocket servers will be pulling said updates from a rabbitmq broker, and broadcasting them ...
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What pattern should I set for handling event as working item?

I have this business event : "CustomerUpdated" published by my system. I have many application listening to these events, and they do all king of action : sending email, updating the database, ...
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Slow throughput - still worth using a dedicated message queue?

Here are some requirements for a queue: Every few days add ~100k tasks with various priorities Workers will pull tasks at typically less than 10 / second Tasks need to be completed by ~2 unique ...
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Integrating ActiveMQ in jetty

I was wondering how to integrate an ActiveMQ message broker into jetty, so that jetty starts up the broker (or ensures that it is running) before running the services. Right now we have solved this ...
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Handling cases where the message queue is unreachable

We are using Apache Camel with ActiveMQ in a microservice architecture in a growing system of integration solutions. I was wondering how each service should react when they are unable to connect to ...
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Set up E-Mail message queue with digest system

We're currently building out a system to send out e-mail notifications in a digest format. We'll be delegating the actual sending to Sendgrid, but first we need to construct these messages using the ...
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Best practice for ensuring name uniqueness/correctness in message queues in a microservice architecture/distributed system

I was wondering what a good solution would be for ensuring that queue-names are entered correctly and are only used by the correct applications in a large system which uses message queues to exchange ...
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A WebSocket API, reply message

I am writing a Web application for copying files between servers. I decided to write a WebSocket server which will receive and send relevant messages (that is communicate with a browser), start and ...
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AMQP broker and happen-before guarantees

I am trying to figure out how an AMQP broker, such as RabbitMQ, can be integrated in our architecture. This should allow to easily scale horizontally in the future. For the sake of simplicity, let me ...
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Web API to Windows Service communication via ZeroMQ

I have an ASP.NET Web API 2 web service. This is the interface customers will use to submit data. I have a Windows Service running on an internal server. I will be sending the customer's POST data to ...
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How to handle thousands of messages to C socket?

I currently have a setup looking like this: __________________ _________ ________ ___________ | Front end server |----| Varnish |----| NodeJS |----| C-service | ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ ...
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Cache invalidation on multiple servers

I have 6 web servers which are giving me problems due to cache inconsistency. I am thinking of building a cache invalidation service such that there is a topic on which all the servers can publish a ...
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Message persistence in Message Queues

I have looked into several message queues as referenced in this link. Several of the larger and more popular ones are in memory only. I can understand the need for this in some situations however in ...
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Master-Slave Cluster - How to make sure the master is really dead for the slave to take over?

I have a in-house messaging system, similar to a message broker. We have one master message broker and one slave message broker. A message broker just receives messages and sends them to all nodes. ...
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Message queues: Cluster of “send mail” and analytics consumers, ensure dispatch to only one mail-consumer and only one analytics-consumer

It seems there's lots of ways to create a task queue where something like a round-robin algo rotate tasks between consumers, but say I have a user queue, and I want to both send a welcome mail and do ...
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Simple messaging pattern to replace shared DB? [closed]

There are two modules A and B using the same DB. A imports B as a JAR. I read that messaging patterns can replace the tightly coupled solution of using a shared DB but I am not sure which message ...
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Eventing solutions for Java legacy applications too old for real JMS queue/topic eventing?

What are some architectural solutions that can mimic eventing for systems (Java) that are too old to implement eventing solutions, such as conventional Queue/Topic based JMS messaging? I have a ...
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Using flat files vs database/API as a transport between a frontend and backend

I've got an application which has generated a rather heated discussion between a couple of the developers. Basically, it's split into a web layer and a backend layer. The web layer collects ...
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Guaranteed message sending for messages of different priority for different modules

We have created a message que system using priority messages. The idea behind this is as follows: We have a list of clients. All clients know if (and what kind of priority) messages they have ...
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What is an appropriate pattern for handling a queue of network events in C++?

I'm writing an application that sends and receives messages over the network and pushes them into a std::deque queue. and I'm looking for the appropriate programming pattern to handle all of the ...
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Fault-tolerant, distributed, event dispatcher architecture?

I'm building an event handler/dispatcher for my monolith, aiming to slowly replace big parts of it by delegating jobs to other systems via events. For example, sending emails when a customer buys ...
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MVC WebApplication as MQ Subscriber

We have a Web (.Net MVC5) application that we are looking to start offloading some of the heavy processing off the Web Application to a distributed services layer. As part of this process we are ...
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Understanding the Single-Writer Principle

The article on the Single-Writer Principle of the Mechanical Sympathy blog explains how bad queues are (performance-wise), because they need to be able to receive messages from multiple produers, and ...
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How to guarantee web script execution sequence/order or not parallels queues

This is a very simplified version of the problem: You have an integer saved on a server called "B" and you have an script saved on a server call "A" exposed to the internet. The script pulls the ...
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Is it always the best way to go to queue emails instead of sending them real-time? [duplicate]

If you had to decide between queueing emails and sending them real-time, is it always the best way to go putting them in a queue and sending them one by one instead of instantly as soon as a user ...
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Using short-lived REST requests to obtain messages from a message queue for clients

I would like to put together a system where clients obtain messages from a REST API, but with the producer being able to use the semantics of a message queue: e.g. ordering of messages, a destination ...
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Design pattern for large amounts of overflowing data?

Our current queues publish messages that consumed by 3rd party services with rate limits. Currently the messages are retried with exponential back-off. However there could be cases where data is ...
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Distributed transactions with Kafka

I need to implement a transaction that spans over loosely coupled (SOA+MOM) components. When a particular event is received, FOO and BAR need to do a transactional operation: that is, both the ...
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Azure ServiceBus Queue: Consumer Application

I am running a .net MVC4 web application. I want to be able to hit an action on a controller, create an email and send it to my service bus queue to be processed (sent). What are my options as far ...
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Message queue vs database for delayed tasks

I need to build a system that can handle a fairly high amount of delayed tasks (e.g. scheduled emails). For non-delayed tasks I would go for something like RabbitMQ. But, is it ok to let tasks ...
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How do I handle long running third party calls from backing up my message queue?

Here is my exact scenario. I must make requests to a third party service The service takes ~15 seconds to respond It also has no webhooks or any call back mechanisms These requests are not made ...
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Does Akka obsolesce JMS/AMQP message brokers? [closed]

I spent the last week deep diving into the Akka docs and finally understand what actor systems are, and the problems that they solve. My understanding (and experience with) traditional JMS/AMQP ...
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How many Topics (queues) to practically use in an ESB

In all the Service Bus examples and tutorials I've seen, they cover publishing a single message to a single Topic that is picked up by a single listening Subscriber. Whilst this is good for a simple ...
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Architecture design for Java servlet that triggers work (for sending push notifications)

I'm designing a push notification server (for pushing notification via APNS and Google servers) and have come up with the following design for a Java based web application server. I would really like ...
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Is it worth it to use a message-queue framework in this case?

We have these things called "executions" that are run at certain times. They have a delay property that basically says "execute me after delay microseconds`. Currently we are using Cassandra as a ...
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Job queue dispatching based on resource constraints

We have a job-queue shaped hole in our architecture, but it isn't immediately obvious that there's a piece of existing software to fill it. There may be a reason for this, or there might not, so let ...
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Web Service and Message Queue

We're looking at creating a web services/REST API layer that will be consumed by web and mobile clients. To make the solution more robust I was considering putting the commands from PUT, POST, and ...
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Sequencing distributed tasks with a distributed DB

Background I have two separate processes, WriteIt() and ReadIt(). One creates records, and the other processes the records in a DB cluster. Once WriteIt() creates a record, it queues a ReadIt() ...
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Storm topology to handle “dating website”-like workloads

suppose im writing a dating website, similar to okcupid. there are profiles, and i need to compute the (N^2) "match" table - given every 2 profiles whats the match between them? I was thinking this ...
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Options for repeated distributed task

Scenario My project has a need to periodically scan the database and notify administrators for particular issues. For example: Any errors in the logs since last update? Do values match expected ...
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Using message queue systems - forcing synchronous processing

I have a php process producer-a which places a job on RabbitMQ a - deferring processing to a third-party service. The 3rd party service completes processing a and places a response onto queue b. I ...
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Is having a bi directional message queue a design smell?

I have an architecture with 1 backend server and multiple frontend servers. The frontend servers are connected in a bi-directional (web sockets) connection to clients so they can send messages to ...