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		cheez on April 5, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You Are Not Google (2017) So far, haven't needed queuing outside of a single thread in the application (I know, what happens if it crashes!) Hasn't happened in ~8 years. Won't cry if it does.

ngrilly on April 5, 2019 [–]

I have an app that uses an in-memory queue too in one thread :-)

I'm curious: why do you queue instead of directly writing to the database?

cheez on April 5, 2019 | [–]

At the moment, I queue to batch insert real time data at ~5 second intervals. It seems less wasteful of resources, but quite frankly is probably not needed.

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