Lexicon

Look-Back Buffering

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Execution Core

Record: lexicon:look-back-buffering

Canonical: Lexicon

A defect in which a whole stream is buffered so that one stage can look back or ahead.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Random Access over a Stream and before Closed Core.

Category

  • Streaming / Pipeline / Dataflow Processing

Violates

  • Forward-Only Processing

Linked from

  • Streaming / Pipeline / Dataflow Processing