Questions tagged [synchronization]
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Need to test for equality on vector clocks
I've heard about vector clocks and how to test if a message was sent before another message.
E.g. Message A was sent before message B if every element of the vector of message A is smaller or equal ...
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Race condition in Distributed Systems
We have a set of micro-services that are functionally dependent and have intertwined validation logic. e.g. consider 'Credit-Card' service and 'Loan' service. When user has a credit card then loan ...
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Does the producer-consumer problem appear in both shared memory and distributed memory architectures?
I saw some books on operating system concepts mention the producer-consumer problem in the context of synchronizing concurrent accesses to shared resources. All seem to be in shared memory ...
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As a developer who runs a small business , can i integrate Quickbooks POS with Shopify
I am a senior developer with C# knowledge, and i have developed many console applications and web applications which integrate with external systems using APIs. now i run my small business and i have ...
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Offline Synchronisation with Changing Access Rights
We got a distributed application where a client syncs certain data portions to its offline storage and performs modifications on it. The data is structured in container entities "Container" and ...
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Launch threads continuously with predefined interval between threads
I'm currently using a third-party API to fetch results, using a REST client (Retrofit).
The problem is that the amount of requests per second that I can do to the API is limited with interval: I can'...
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Data Synchronization: How can I keep a parent record updated with its child totals efficiently?
I have an application that returns projects. A Project has many Tasks each Task has a field called hours. A project returns the total hours for all the Tasks that belong to it.
My application ...
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Map synchronization algorithm
Say I have two Map instances in JavaScript (or HashMap in Java, or Dictionary in C#), A and B. I want to synchronize B to A, so that B is a copy of A. I can't copy the reference and I don't want to ...
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How to justify using await instead of .Result() or .Wait() in .NET Core?
Since the inception of .NET Core, console apps, function apps, ASP.NET etc. are not using synchronization context in async methods (so they're synchronizing straight to Thread Pool).
This means that ...
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How to generate object Ids for both local and online storage?
My application has both offline (SQLite) and online (iCloud) storage. See: Offline First: How Do I Fetch Data?
Now, as stated in my past question above, the application is offline first, and I'm ...
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Offline First: How Do I Fetch Data?
I'm new to this community, I'm glad I found this and so I can ask questions like this one (as per https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/68384/whats-the-difference-between-stack-overflow-and-...
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Are there pitfalls to using only a remote database for a mobile app?
My research indicates that the ideal database design is:
Mobile App -> Local Database -> Syncing -> Remote Database
using something like PouchDB to do the data replication/syncing.
But ...
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How to arrange synchronicity reporting in an eventually consistent, distributed system?
Context: A typical corporate landscape with many systems located in different data centers, with firewalls, without uniformised interfacing.
Some data X is being replicated for availability and ...
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Reliable data synchronisation between several systems
We have several systems that hold the same data in different databases. The requirement is to keep the data synced in as much reliable way as possible. Performance isn't a concern because we don't ...
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Synchronize Data From Multiple Data Sources
Our team is trying to build a predictive maintenance system whose task is to look at a set of events and predict whether these events depict a set of known anomalies or not.
We are at the design ...
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Synchronization of data across microservices
We have 2 to 3 dozen microservices that serve our customers.
These services are deployed in a Kubernetes cluster, and they're only accessible to the outside world through 3 or 4 API gateways.
We ...
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Generic way to describe data synchronization between systems?
Is there a generic way (useful formalisms) to think about data synchronization between two systems, especially in the case of slightly asymmetric roles (eg, one system contain master data, another one ...
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What are criteria for enterprise to have multiple databases (for new project)?
We are working on new enterprise project (multiple activities - online ordering, offline ordering, b2b ordering, accounting processing, secure payment processing, analysis and dynamic pricing and so ...
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Synchronize multiples REST api, centralized into 1 web application
I am developing a web application for a client, connected to 4 differents sources :
E-commerce website
CRM
Emailing platform
Surveys platform
All the sources have REST Api's.
The web application ...
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How state updates to existing instances/sessions are generally done?
This is a very broad question, but maybe someone has a worthwhile response.
There is a general synchronization issue that often has to be solved, but always seems to be difficult. Here's an example:
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Synchronization method vs private final object for locking in java
Can anyone tell me which one is better approach between synchronization method and private final object in java and why ??
public class kclass {
private final Object myObject = new Object();
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Client synchronization of authentication tokens in parallel connections
In my app server's authentication implementation, an authentication token is generated for every user that has logged in. According to some highly recommended security tips (Implementing Secure User ...
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Best practices for app-cloud synchronization of database representation
I'm planning a cookbook-like Android app that would let users store/add/edit their e-juice recipes, keep track of the ingredients, etc. Internally, I'll be storing the data in a database on the user's ...
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2 way synchronization with multiple client version
I have a project consisting of both a local and a remote system.
The database between the local and remote system needs to perform 2 way syncing. I know this can be achieved by using a 2-way syncing ...
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Race conditions in client synchronization
I have a web app whose server creates a Client for each websocket connection. A Client acts as an intermediary between the websocket connection and a single instance of a Hub. The Hub maintains a set ...
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Keep channels online, even though underlying systems are offline?
We have six very old systems where the newest one is built 1995. All these systems have batch jobs running from midnight to 6 AM every night, and these systems are offline. On top of these six systems ...
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How to implement online/offline data synchronisation?
I want to create a desktop application.
The application must be able to accept database transactions even if internet connection is lost, but as soon as internet connection is available the ...
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How to resolve data-binding efficiently
Following this question, the solution to resolve data binding is to use DFS and Topological Sorting. I am not really sure exactly what that means. Here is an animation that roughly demonstrates what I ...
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Struggling with implementing synchronization or concurrency
In my app two components A and B, have their data and state based on the data and state of a 3rd component, component C:
Both A and B can change the data of component C.
Both A and B listen to ...
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How to sync data between two detached systems using rest API?
I own system A, and other entity owns system B. I need to sync system B, based on changes that took place in system A. Data being synced would be spitted into different sets, so I dont have to sync ...
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What are some approaches used in financial applications to prevent deposit/withdrawal sync problems?
I am currently facing a problem with an application that has deposit/withdraw functionality.
The underlying database (Cassandra) offers no read/write locks.
Now suppose user A has deposited 100$...
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File upload sync for offline desktop application. (Electron)
We are making an offline desktop application in Electron that needs to sync when the user goes online.
Sqlite is used as the database when offline and it gets synced to postgres on the server when ...
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Using inner classes to achieve thread-safe behavior without synchronization
I have some classes that contains both immutable (primitive & references) and mutable data, but mutability come from external writes (another process).
To avoid using synchronized on every ...
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Are there any techniques for detecting redundancies a stream of changes to a filesystem?
I'm working on a file-synchronization client that currently produces a stream of changes to the underlying filesystem. That is a stream of create/update/move/delete events is produced for each ...
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Design for client-server synchronisation
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I am working on improving the backend design for a video game. The game is live and working fine, but we want to improve various things. As a video game studio, we often do events which ...
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Sync one thousand vector3 across network with minimal bytes?
I am making a game with Unity, and am having problems attempting network synchronisation. Deterministic simulation is impossible because Unity's internal logic is float based. I am trying to make a ...
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State ownership cover everything for a class to be thread safe
As mentioned by Java_author,
When defining which variables form an object's state, we want to consider only the data that object owns....
In many case, ownership and encapsulation go together—...
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Design for syncing data from remote API
I am trying to find a robust and correct solution for syncing data from different sources to my local relational database.
I have different sources of data for eg: CSV, REST API and probably network ...
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Best practice to keep different data sources in sync?
I'm having doubts about how to implement and keep synchronization between two datasources in a distributed system. In my case, I have a service that checks for expired jobs in a repository. If the job ...
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Threads - When to use barrier?
Using python syntax,
threading.Barrier(NUM_THREADS) establishes a control point and all participating threads block until all of the participating “parties” have reached that point. It lets threads ...
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Architecture for real-time application, avoiding duplicate messages for queues with no active consumers
I am designing the architecture of an application which has your typical backend and frontend components. The frontend application must be semi real-time. For this requirement, the backend is pushing ...
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Designing a mechanism to synchronize states with commands despite timing / network inconsistencies
I have two browser clients: A and B. They communicate through a signalling server Server.
A has a clientside heartbeat that signals its ClientState to other clients. ClientState can be one of the ...
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Some “intent”-related questions vis-à-vis Operational Transformation and CRDTs
I’m a little unclear on some questions relating to the "intent" part of concurrent collaboration algorithms (operational transformation and conflict-free replicated data types). Please help!
Strings ...
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How can I wait on multiple processes across users?
I have some code in process A that needs to wait until work completes in other processes that can be running simultaneously under multiple users.
I'm uncertain what is the appropriate ...
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Keeping data between two databases in sync
Let's say I have a forum application running, and I start building a separate web application with a Python web framework. Both applications use their own MySQL databases, which contain their own ...
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How to perform a 2 way sync from many client applications to central server?
I have many client applications that sync up to a central server.
I am using C#, MS SQL server, Win Forms, ASP.NET MVC + API.
I need to learn/figure out how to perform a 2 way sync for data changes ...
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What's the best implementation for offline mobile app synchronization?
We have an Android app written as a Cordova AngularJS SPA which has now grown so that we need to add some work to it meaning we have to improve the synchronization part of the app. The app is mainly ...
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Synchronize a Device without Directly Setting Date/Time?
Setup: I have a number of biometric devices, each of which records 24hr-48hr chunks of data that need to be correctly time-stamped with start date of each recording. Each device needs to be connected ...
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How to implement ETL with MySQL?
I have a legacy MySQL Database (A), and a new reviewed structure for MySQL data base (B).
Problem number one is that Database has to be alive and keeps receiving data from legacy apps.
What I need is ...
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Why does a process set its turn to the other process in Peterson's solution for synchronization?
From Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter B. Galvin, Greg Gagne, Peterson's solution to the critical-section problem has two processes Pi and Pj,
do {
flag[i] = true;
turn ...
