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(cofounder of tpuf here)

We don't have a relational database, otherwise that would work great for a queue! You can imagine us continuing to iterate here to Step 5, Step 6, ... Step N over time. The tradeoff of each step is complexity, and complexity has to be deserved. This is working exceptionally well currently.



Makes total sense for your use case! I have got bitten by using object storage as a database before (and churning through "update" ops) so this will depend on the pricing (and busy-ness of the queue of course) of the provider anyway. Using whatever you have available instead of introducing complexity is the way. Sqlite / Postgres goes a long way for use cases you wouldn't originally think would go well with a relational database too (full text search, using as queue,...).


Due to the batching, this will only consume a few million class B per month. They are $5/million


> You can imagine us continuing to iterate here to Step 5, Step 6, ... Step N over time. The tradeoff of each step is complexity, and complexity has to be deserved. This is working exceptionally well currently.

Love this approach




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