Networking and Global Routing

When your offline users finally reconnect to the network, your edge nodes are going to experience a sudden, massive influx of delayed data. If your system tries to write all this data directly to your primary database, it will likely crash. To survive this “thundering herd” scenario, your edge nodes must act as intelligent buffers. … Read more

In our previous section “Implementing a Resilient Node.js Producer for Alibaba Cloud RocketMQ“, we built the edge-side Producer that catches offline-synced data and securely buffers it into Alibaba Cloud RocketMQ. Now, we need to build the central cloud’s engine: the Consumer. When the international gateways reopen and connectivity is restored, your RocketMQ topics will be … Read more