Questions tagged [synchronization]
Maintaining several related processes, threads, objects or data in a consistent state. Not to be confused with replication.
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How to ensure that release tags are uniformly created throughout a cohort of closely-related Git repositories?
Working as part of the release team for a sprawling open source project that uses dozens of Git repositories, I regularly run into situations where one or more of the satellite repositories are ...
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Synchronized Web Audio Playback on Multiple Smartphones Using Timestamped Chunks and Manual Time Shifting
Note: I am not super knowledgeable web javascript or streaming, but I have read this and this and this I am proposing an alternate idea and just trying to verify whether I have a sound starting point ...
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How can I code synchronous programs in Node?
I'm a career programmer, very comfortable writing programs in Python, and recently started learning Node.
I understand the asynchronous features are useful in many situations, but when I debug my code,...
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Best approach to sync data between mobile app cache and the server db? [duplicate]
I have an offline-first mobile app. The user enters data, data is saved into local SQLite database.
The server has Postgres database. I need to build a two-directional sync strategy that keeps data on ...
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How do I guarantee ordered processing of occurring events in concurrent environment?
I have a Kafka topic providing events of the following type: id(hash):[ADD|REMOVE].
These events may be generated at a high rate and are idempotent, i.e. getting 123:ADD one time and ten times in a ...
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What are the existing theories or methodologies around synchronizing tree structures?
I need to compare and synchronize two tree data structures.
I have Tree A (the "Reference Tree") and Tree B (the "Target Tree"). I need to bring the Target Tree into compliance ...
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How best to keep Excel Workbook field in sync across class instances
I know almost nothing about threads, synchronization, ...
That being said, I am working on a record handler, that hits Excel sheet to pull/push data. There exist, in my code base, a BaseRecordHandler, ...
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Data backup/slave node with replicated data, to be writeable while master is offline
I'm developing and designing a system which runs mostly on intranet of client companies. The system consists of one main database which is MariDB, for now one web-application as system management and ...
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If you run a function in a different thread, but you wait for it to finish in your main thread, is that function asynchronous?
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Probably a stupid question, but I just have a sneaking suspicion that "asynchronous" is the wrong terminology to us for naming my template function here:
template <class T>
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Synchronous vs Asynchronous Event Driven Architecture
I have been searching extensively about the difference between synchronous and asynchronous patterns and how this relates to event driven architecture. On its face it is quite obvious, I simply ...
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Ensuring run-once behavior in a multi-threaded environment via volatile lambdas?
I'm coding an enum strategy pattern where one of the strategies makes use of an ScheduledExecutor:
class ControllerImpl {
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boolean applyStrat(StratParam param) {
getStrat().apply(...
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One producer - multiple consumers queue, best way to guard against rare duplicates?
I have a classical one producer - multiple consumers queue, each item can be processed independently. On rare occasions (<1%) there can be multiple queue items related to the same object the ...
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Right way to combine data between Mongo and DynamoDB
I am looking for a way of dealing with the following situation:
1- Have an items collection in MongoDB
2- Have a users collection in DynamoDB
3- Each document in the items collection has a "...
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Sync image files from network with mariadb-Database
i have as a mechanical engineering student in my practice semester to create a database that includes about 100k+ paths to images in our network. Every, lets say week, i have to synchronize all ...
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What will you do if multiple users access your application at the same time?
I'm an experienced Software Engineer but very weak in concurrency because of no prior experience in that. I've been interviewing with several companies in which I was asked similar kind of questions ...
