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The choice of the routing key in our case was a combination of the unique identifier (UUID) and type of the primary participant of each event in a calendar. This choice was made based on the querying patterns of the consuming application and to maintain a degree of uniqueness.
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degree of iteration in software development is inevitable. As soon as one accepts that logic, one must then also accept that software development will be subject to friction (i.e. unexpected inefficiencies). When I plan the future for a piece of software, I expect to encounter ongoing friction, and I try to allow for that. I remain astonished at how many organisations assume that a master plan for their software can be rigidly followed.
- The number of partitions is fixed at the time of the index creation. Each partition is an indivisible chunk of data which can grow in size but not be split into smaller chunks. As the data grows, more nodes may be added to the cluster, but the number of partitions which eventually move to the newer nodes are limited (Fig 3)
- In some sense, as the
