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Double Buffering with Cloudflare Queues

33 points by b_llc ago | 4 comments

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b_llc |previous [-]

A stateless pattern I use to batch telemetry at the edge while driving Cloudflare write costs to zero.

fwlr |root |parent |next [-]

Cool pattern. Critics will say “falsehoods programmers believe about time” but it’s a cloud service, any time oddity that would break this would also break a lot more important stuff, so it’s fine.

Ugly code though.

  // env
  QUEUES = [EVEN_QUEUE, ODD_QUEUE]

  // producers
  env.QUEUES[hour % 2].send …

  // consumer
  env.QUEUES[1 + hour % 2]

danhite |root |parent [-]

> env.QUEUES[1 + hour % 2]

// results in index 1 or 2 as js has precedence for */% over +-

So something like the following, for your desired visual succinctness? ...

env.QUEUES[hour % 2 ^ 1]

// results in desired js index 0 or 1

I wonder if any of you using AI code assistance regularly might tell an old hack like me if your code review tools would have caught such a bug?

raffraffraff |root |parent |previous [-]

Can you explain the pricing here?