[chef] Re: Latency on search indicies

[Brad Knowles < >]

On Jun 24, 2013, at 7:42 PM, Peter Donald 
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> We actually use Chef 11 but to be honest most of the strategies we
> used to address this were developed when we were on 10.x. There is
> still a delay between when a data bag item is inserted/updates and
> when it appears in the search results so I *assume* the lag is still
> present for node data but have not tested.

Ahh, data bags.  I always thought that they were kind of a hack, and maybe 
not as well implemented as a lot of other parts of Chef.

I would be very interested to find out if you have the same latency with node 
data as you do with data bags.

> Also most of those other sites can probably afford to rely on eventual
> consistency. However it would be nice to have the parameter to the
> rest endpoints to block until indexing of the changed data is
> complete.

Indeed, that sounds like a knob that would be very nice to be able to tweak.

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