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dmdScout
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3 years ago

Dropbox system design

Hey guys, I'm going to finish a project like Dropbox but meet the bottleneck. This project consists of metadata module and data module. When a file been uploaded, send request to metadata module first and then upload file to data module. But I don't know how to solve the consistent problem. For example, how to drawback when invoking metadata module successfully and data module unsuccessfully? Do I need distributed transaction?

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    Greg-DB
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    3 years ago

    This is the forum for the Dropbox API, but it sounds like your question is more about general software design, so it may be better suited in a general programming forum instead.

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