Questions tagged [messaging]
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Notification system on app using Firebase
I have to build an app that manages orders between customers who submit the orders and riders who deliver them. Riders work in shifts, so when a customer submits an order, only the riders that are ...
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Using signalR for streaming alongside a microservice architecture
I have a cluster of micro services with an exposed search API serving a client app. I want to "stream" in real time the aggregated results of a complex search. The search will be kicked of by the ...
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Syncing two Notifications and Merging them Into One
I am running into this issue:
Suppose that there are two independent services, A and B, and both process messages from C.
Suppose that I have a service X that needs to know if a message m from C was ...
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How to design document exchange system
I am trying to come up with a design of document exchange system.
System should be for business-to-business communication.
Description:
There will be possibly 100+ clients(consumers) - they will have ...
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Scheduling operations in a micro service
I'm trying to realize a service that executes operations at a certain time, those operations are specified by another service by messaging, here's the scenario:
The service A receives a request to ...
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Passing Keys instead of Messages
Recently I stood up a Redis server and tested the idea of storing application 'states' that only existed in our application and were never stored in our database. Don't know if we will ultimately do ...
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How is caching used within messaging apps?
I'm actually studying about web development.
I was just asking why a lot of web apps and chats(Whatsapp, Telegram, Discord, and a lot, a lot more!) are using cache.
I mean, after learning cache ...
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Message Broker in Client-Server-Applications
I'm currently planning an architecture for a system that should consist of multiple microservices. We definitely want to make use of a message broker (probably RabbitMQ).
A simplified diagram of my ...
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Design scalable solution with queue
Assuming the following scenario:
A web application that receives inputs from the user and process the inputs through an algorithm which takes between 5 to 25 minutes (depending on the inputs) and ...
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RabbitMQ: how to achieve scalable one-to-one communication?
I'm trying to use RabbitMQ for two-way one-to-one communication between clients and servers. So, Client 1 should be able to communicate only with Server 1, and vice versa:
The servers stay always ...
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What happens to media files when a WhatsApp user recalls the message? [closed]
WhatsApp has the "Delete For Everyone" feature that makes it easy to delete messages you did not intend to send to the other user.
For text messages, this recall is easy, but what about Video, Photo ...
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How to guarantee HTTP message delivery in fault tolerant way
When an application A communicates with an external/3rd party system B, there is always a chance that B is down.
Say that A raises an event that should be sent as a message to B via HTTP, what is the ...
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Security and performance considerations when creating chat system on a Flask backend
I am building a website with the Flask framework. One functionality of the site will be that users can send messages to each other.
I created a prototype of this using Flask WTF forms. The basic ...
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CQRS-Event Sourcing: how to process events in the expected order inside the read model
I'm looking for some insights about how to handle the read model in a CQRS Event Sourcing application, in order to do the best to ensure data consistency.
The missing point is how to be sure (...
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Platform independant ways of passing messages between executibles
I am working on an a data collector which could be called an API of some sorts, which is based on .Net Core 2.1 .
It's job is to receive and pull (ask for) data from data collectors(executable, DLL,...
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CQRS async query from command handler
In a CQRS/async microservices context, I have a command handler e.g. SendOrderConfirmationEmailCommandHandler implemented in a communications service.
This depends on information from the orders ...
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RabbitMQ as backbone for services written in different languages
I'm seeking advice from people using RabbitMQ to connect services written in different languages. Currently my organization is using RabbitMQ exclusively with C# and it's all working quite well. In ...
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Designing CRUD Messaging communication
There are endless resources on creating CRUD for REST resources but I can't find much on doing the same for Messaging.
Given two services A and B where A receives incoming requests that initiates the ...
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Designing a configurable delay pattern on JMS (tibco maas) stack
My java app is a consumer to maas topic(say PRIMARY) on which upstream systems publishes their messages. Some of the pushed messages now needs some delay(say 10 min) before my app starts processing it....
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How to convey object hierarchy when object is converted to json for updates?
I have some classes being serialized via frugal (this is an open source extension of Thrift). The primary reason this is relevant is that the serialization process is out of my control and needs to ...
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How can I handle multi-producer to particular single-consumer in Kafka?
I'm evaluating the Kafka. It provides some nice features which I want to use, especially durability be default and the access to past messages for new consumers, whenever the consumer wants to reach ...
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How to broadcast message to all non connected clients
I plan to have server which consumes all data sent from clients. I want to use messaging system (RabbitMQ) to avoid all troubles with discovering services, recoveries and so on. Client just publish ...
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Organizing specific human messaging in the web applicaiton code
Python (Flask) web application has a big portion of email/SMS messages generated by templates, translated by Flask-Babel.
To my eye, having literal constants for the message in views, among other ...
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WCF: Send events between services
I recently worked in a larger project where I touched the topic of distributed systems in the c# world the first time.
I found that
wcf is fantastic for remote procedure calls, but how do you add ...
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Design Pattern similar to ESB
Background
I am trying to write a simulator where multiple AI agents are competing and/or collaborating to achieve the goal of maximizing some utility function.
Each agent has the ability to ...
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AMQP protocol and protocols in general
Recently I was reading the AMQP protocol specification from the official website, however, because this is my first protocol that I am trying to study in depth so couple of generic questions about ...
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distributed application design - using message broker
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I'm trying to design a layer/component in my distributed application that will communicate between component A and component B.
Right now, this "communication" is accomplished by ...
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Why are most ReactiveX implementations push-based?
Feel free to correct my history, but as far as I understand it, Rx and the Reactive Manifesto trace their roots back to C# and its Reactive Extensions, which is uses push (callback-based) messaging, ...
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Multi-instance Microservice Grid: Preventing Duplication Of Effort When Resolving Cached Resources
Background:
We are in the process of converting a traditional multi-service Windows Service (WS) application into an Azure Service Fabric microservices grid running on a Service Bus messaging layer.
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Durable messaging over HTTP
I need to send messages from a Windows Service to a Azure Service Fabric Stateful service. The network connection is not very reliable, and there must not be lost data. I was hoping I could use ...
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How to explain to a trainee how a computer receives external messages [closed]
I got a trainee in the company I work for. We are currently working on a JS interface that communicates through websocket with a C/Lang server.
My trainee asked me a very good question this morning.
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Design verification - chat application architecture
So for my newest hobby project, I want to create a simple chat application where users can just log in with a nickname (no passwords) and talk to anybody on the network.
Off the top of my head, I'm ...
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Notification system design on mobile apps using AWS SNS
To simplify the use case, let's say I have a mobile app available for Android and iOS, similar to Instagram, where users can upload photos that can be commented, liked or disliked by other users.
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Patterns for cross application/service event aggregator/messaging
We've got a spaghetti mess of an application that I've been tasked with rebuilding. I really want to make the new code much more flexible, and also more distributed.
On a basic level the application ...
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SMS for messaging between applications [closed]
What would be the issues or advantages to using SMS messaging for inter-application messaging? more or less reliable than http? etc.
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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 are good conventions/standards for application messaging through stdin and stdout?
I'm designing and application that spawns another processes to handle some specialized work. The application and the process it spawns will communicate through standard input and standard output (and ...
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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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How to implement a (truly) global variable in a Rails app
How can I best implement a global counter in a Rails API app? (A central component in a system with several.)
Basically I have a transaction id I need to increment and roll over past a maximum value. ...
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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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Is message-oriented middleware applicable for intra-application communication?
I recently developed an application in LabVIEW, but although I'm pretty happy with its design I realised that I might be able to improve one part of it by making the various components of this ...
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Alan Kay: “The Big Idea is Messaging” [duplicate]
Alan Kay said "OO" was about messaging, not objects and drew a parallel to biological cells.
His views are enticing, but vague. The way I understand it is something like a Cellular Automata.
In a ...
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Architecture for a mobile (Android) chat application
I want to develop a chat application that reminds a bit whatsapp, I am doing it as a learning project. I am currently doing it on Android just because I am doing an Android course.
The requirements ...
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How do I better manage my Service Bus Quotas in Azure?
I'm trying to determine how best to accomplish the following scenario using the Azure Service Bus. I have millions of devices (desktop software, mobile phone apps, etc) that need to have messages sent ...
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Why is Akka being marketed as reactive? Is Actor Model reactive?
As far as I understand the Actor Model and the Reactive Programming are separate concepts. Actor Model does not seem to be inherently reactive to me.
However the Akka framework which is an Actor ...
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How to determine if a message should be a command message or event message?
Two enterprise integration patterns are the command message and the event message. I am working on a system in which we use messaging not only for integration with other systems, but for internal ...
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Data Transformation Pipeline
I have create some kind of data pipeline to transform coordinate data into more useful information.
Here is the shell of pipeline:
public class PositionPipeline
{
protected List<...
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Dependencies between services in pipeline [closed]
I am working on creating a new data processing system, where there are multiple steps each fulfilled by different services. For example, there is a scheduling service that kicks of something, an ...
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Difference between sending a message and emitting it
Halfway through the RabbitMQ tutorial, I noticed that the tutorial stops referring to producers "sending" messages and starts using the verb "emit" instead — and pretty consistently, too; after the ...
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Refactoring expansive message architecture
I am currently working with a system that acts like a message bus. A message comes in to the service (WCF Windows Service hosted). The system then uses a service locator pattern to look up which ...
