We have a problem. A good ol’ fashioned ringbuffer getting full and dropping messages problem. Brilliant, this is definitely what one wants to happen in their Itch market data feed in a production environment.
You know, the delta stream where we broadcast every price change and trade to clients? The one where they expect low latency and to receive every event. Yep, definitely a problem.
So why can a ring buffer get full? Well, it means writes are occurring more frequently than reads – whatever is consuming messages is unable to keep pace with what is publishing them. The consumer [...]
Before talking about stories, iterations and retrospectives (processes) or boards and cards (tools) let us stop to consider the people. You’re gonna [...]