Anyone here who is working on an application which doesn’t need to persist its model in a database? You can tune out here.
The rest of you knows the problem: You have a change in your model, you need to persist it. The problem: The persistence layer is synchronous. Your application “hangs” until the change is written to the database and the database has confirmed the commit. The reason for this design is error handling: We are afraid of what might happen if there is an error in a commit for a transaction which we sent to the persistence layer five minutes ago. What’s the user supposed to do? How can the storage thread decide what to do with the following commits? Throw them away? Suppress them until the problem has been fixed five days later? Write them to a file? To name but a few.
If there is no error, this is not an issue and this works astonishingly good. I implemented such a scheme with roughly 50 lines in my program upcscan. For Java with it’s unhealthy type system, that would be a bit more code, a whole lot harder to get right. Fortunately, the guys at Terracotta offer a support module for that.
Read more in this article: Asynchronous Write Behinds and the Repository Pattern
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