Time Series Messaging Persistence and Replay
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional messaging architectures fail to persist and replay messages with time parameters, leading to inefficiencies and increased complexity in message-consuming applications, which require additional development costs and resource consumption.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating time series information into messages stored in data storage, allowing for the replay of messages in their original order, including timestamp and offset data, to enable efficient persistence and retrieval on consumer devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If traditional messaging architecture is used without persistence, then message delivery speed is improved, but message replay capability is lost and application complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the persistence and replay functionality from the application layer and places it in the messaging infrastructure layer. By separating these concerns, the messaging system handles storage and time-series management while applications focus on message consumption, reducing application complexity without sacrificing delivery speed.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a messaging infrastructure as an intermediary between message producers and consumers. This intermediary layer provides persistence, time-series ordering, and replay capabilities, shielding applications from these complexities while maintaining efficient message delivery.
2Adaptability or versatility
If messages are persisted with time series information, then message replay capability is improved, but storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary actions by adding time-series metadata (timestamps, sequence numbers) to messages at the point of ingestion. This preliminary structuring enables efficient storage, retrieval, and replay operations later without requiring redundant data storage, optimizing the balance between replay capability and storage requirements.
3Adaptability or versatility
If messages are stored and replayed on demand, then message access flexibility is improved, but retrieval time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces mechanical sequential search with indexed access mechanisms. By maintaining time-series indexes and metadata structures during message ingestion, the system enables rapid retrieval of specific time ranges or message sequences without scanning entire storage, reducing retrieval time while preserving access flexibility.
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AI summary
Techniques are described for time series based enrichment of messages that are persisted and published in a flow according to the time series data. Inbound messages may be received and processed to add timing information. The modified messages may be stored as a time series in data storage. In response for a request for a particular sequence or set of messages, the messages may be retrieved from data storage and provided in a flow instance to the requestor. The requestor, such as a consumer application, may replay the data from the messages according to the order of the time series of the messages. In this way, implementations enable a time ordered sequence of messages to be replayed at any time after the initial receipt of the messages, and enable any number of instances of such replay including simultaneous replay of a particular message sequence to multiple consumers.