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Double Buffering with Cloudflare Queues bellone.com

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b_llcop3 days ago

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

fwlr6 hours ago

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]

danhitean hour ago

> 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?

raffraffraff3 hours ago

Can you explain the pricing here?

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