Questions tagged [task]
Task here is a synonym for activity in Project Management, or individual day to day work.
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How can i handle really long-term running tasks?
Im not dealing with a x minute task that can use an message queue and some workers to be done. Lets say that i have an cctv camera that capture 24/7, but can be stopped or started again via Web API ...
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Whose job actually is to process data in the database to become something like a chart in frontend?
I'm new here, so please be gentle.
I've been having issues at my workplace about the front-end team demanding me as a backend to provide every piece of data that has to be displayed in the front end. ...
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Critical section with two different "rights of way" [closed]
In C#, how do I handle critical section with two different "rights of way"?
Theoretical use case: imagine a swimming pool (the resource). Many individual swimmers (worker threads A, B, C, ...
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Should we create review branch in github to story or subtask of jira?
I have an 8 pointer Story. Let’s call it for example XX1234
I have created 4 subtasks based on the list of actions to follow to complete the whole story implementation:
1. XX1235
2. XX1236
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Best algorithm to sort tasks by priorities by a human
I have developed a task management tool. And some task lists can be very large. (I have myself more than 300 tasks to do).
I would like to do some task reviews from time to time as the tasks pile up ...
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Thoughts of Google Cloud App Engine Reliability
I have been developing an app that will require a cron task every minute.
We are handling our cron tasks with Spring Boot Scheduling. Although, I am a little worried about the following question:
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Name of this pattern
I create an object that holds the status of a job. The job has many stages, some concurrent. Worker threads constantly monitor the status object to see if it's ready for the next stage to begin, if it ...
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Shared Development Tasks for Agile User Stories
My team is going to be using Visual Studio Team Services for an upcoming project. The Agile tools let me organize User Stories and Tasks hierarchically like this:
Epic > Feature > User Story > Task/...
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How can we effectively manage software projects without killing creativity?
I am convinced that software development is essentially a creative process. I also believe that this is the case for all levels, from architecture to coding.
What makes me think so? To put it very ...
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How can agile be applied to applications involving complex processing?
Most of the literature on agile seems to be biased towards CRUD type business applications where the user is pretty much aware of what is going on behind the scenes. (That's fine because most of the ...
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What techniques can be used to clearly define the scope of a development task or work package?
Most people agree that it is a good thing to split a software development project into many small tasks each of which can be implemented within a few hours. But the finer the granularity, the more ...
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Solve Synchronization
I want to solve Synchronization with a Message Queue
In the wikipedia page of message queue, I read:
Most messaging systems support both the publisher/subscriber and message queue models in their ...
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Are there any challenges with self-selecting/volunteering/signing up for agile tickets/tasks? [closed]
As a common practice followed by agile team members using agile methods(scrum, kanban etc), they volunteers/sign-up/pick-up/self-select tasks from the backlog using Jira/Trello/etc.
What I am ...
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When is it safe to use Monitor (lock) with Task?
In a multi-threaded environment, we must consider concurrent access to writable resources. A common approach is to use Monitor or its shorthand form lock.
Task is at a different abstraction level ...
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Calling multiple async services in parallel
I have few async REST services which are not dependent on each other. That is while "awaiting" a response from Service1, I can call Service2, Service3 and so on.
For example, refer below code:
var ...
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