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Low-latency Feed (Request and Response)
Pipeline: One unconnected input view and one or more unconnected output views
The most popular Ultra Pipeline design is a straightforward request-response construct that is used as a data access layer for real-time web services. This design transforms a Pipeline into a continuously running job. Documents are supplied to the Pipeline through a FeedMaster that maintains a queue of documents, which are then parsed by the Pipeline while responses are returned through the FeedMaster to the caller.
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Always-On (Continuous Data Flow)
Pipeline: No unconnected input view and no unconnected output view
This design is often used in a listener-consumer construct. With zero unconnected input and output views, an Ultra Pipeline can be used to poll and consume the documents from an endpoint without requiring a document feed from the FeedMaster.
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