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Smart Buffering Explorer

Use the stage controls to compare the synthetic input, authored output, and configuration at each step.

How to use this explorer

Move between stages with the arrows or the numbered stage list. Each stage shows the input it receives on the left and the output it produces on the right, with the lines that changed marked. The configuration that makes the change sits below the comparison, and the final stage shows the complete pipeline.

The 4 stages in order

  1. Original Input
    All messages are buffered in FIFO order. Important alerts wait behind debug logs, payment failures queue after bulk analytics. After reconnection, all backlogged messages compete equally.
  2. Priority Classification
    Messages are classified into three tiers: important (critical alerts, payment failures), regular (standard operations), and archive (debug logs, analytics). Each tier gets a label.
  3. Priority Output Routing
    Route each tier to separate outputs with different batching. Important: count=1 (immediate). Regular: count=50. Archive: count=200. New important messages ship immediately—they don't wait for queued regular batches.
  4. Starvation Prevention
    Add an authored age-based score adjustment. Eventual delivery and starvation behavior require a real queue and worker test.

Interactive pipeline

SMART BUFFERING

Priority-aware output configuration

Stage 1 of 4

Original Input

All messages are buffered in FIFO order. Important alerts wait behind debug logs, payment failures queue after bulk analytics. After reconnection, all backlogged messages compete equally.

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Input

{"timestamp": "2024-01-15T14:30:00Z","severity": "critical","category": "important","event_type": "payment.failed","service": "payment-service","message": "Payment processing failed","amount": 50000}

Output

{"timestamp": "2024-01-15T14:30:00Z","severity": "critical","category": "important","event_type": "payment.failed","service": "payment-service","message": "Payment processing failed","amount": 50000,"buffered_at": "2024-01-15T14:30:01Z"}
Partial snippet01-original-input.yaml
# No priority buffering - all messages treated equally
buffer:
  memory:
    limit: 50000
    batch_policy:
      count: 100      # FIFO ordering
      period: 1s      # Same delay for all

output:
  http_client:
    url: ${DESTINATION_URL}
    verb: POST
    timeout: 30s