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Scatter-Gather
Distributes requests to multiple services and collects responses
Complexity: mediumParallelization
In 30 seconds
- What
- Sends a request to multiple services in parallel, then waits for and combines their responses into one result.
- When to use
- You need data from several independent sources and can tolerate partial results if some services are slow or fail.
- Watch out
- Timeout must be short enough to avoid user-facing delays, but long enough that you don't discard valid responses.
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Scatter-Gather: Overview
Distributes requests to multiple services and collects responses
- Request distribution
- Response aggregation
- Timeout management
- Partial result handling
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