Suppose I have a GenServer or Agent that holds some state and serves immediate responses.
What are some strategies to asynchronously persist this state in database, without slowing down the GenServer, but then also handling failures resulting in portion of state not written? In a way, this is sort-of “write cache” or buffer/queue for high-concurrency write situations..
My specific example: I have limited-capacity course with 30 seats, and I have 10000 within single second trying to enroll. I wanna put them in a queue, and give them immediate response whether or not they made it among the first 30, but then in the next step I also need to write it to db, so that the initial response is “set in stone” so to speak. It would be fine to send them kind-of “pre-approval” immediately in the first step, and then “full confirmation” a few seconds later once it’s written in the database.
I didn’t study computer science, so maybe this is a common problem with simple solution.
Thank you!
