alt Hacker NewsDepending on who hosts your object storage this seems like it could get much more expensive than using a queue table in your database? But I'm also aware that this is a blog post of an object storage company.
Depending on who hosts your object storage this seems like it could get much more expensive than using a queue table in your database? But I'm also aware that this is a blog post of an object storage company.
(cofounder of tpuf here)
We don't have a relational database, otherwise that would work great for a queue! You can imagine us continuing to iterate here to Step 5, Step 6, ... Step N over time. The tradeoff of each step is complexity, and complexity has to be deserved. This is working exceptionally well currently.