Lexicon

Snapshot Compaction

Kind: technique

Layer: Execution Core

Record: lexicon:snapshot-compaction

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for periodically storing a snapshot of state derived from a log, so readers replay only the events after it.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Offset Tracking and before Non-Replayable Processing.

Category

  • Event Messaging Async

Refactors

  • Append-Only Log

Linked from

  • Event / Messaging / Asynchronous Architecture