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Comment by bruth

> If messages were frequent enough, and/or snapshots took a while to compute/transfer, you might never have a roll-up succeed.

Yes, good point. The "snapshotting up to a lagging sequence" could be achieved with two separate subjects to reduce contention, but is a bit more work.

It sounds like, in Drift's case, the snapshot effectively brings up the tail (snapshot), but the head can still be appended to with new events.

parent bruth 3 years ago

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