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Migration Step 1

Both scenarios define a migration step at this stage. Distributed Job Queue Platform: triggered by 'Background jobs competing with user-facing API requests for '. Analytics Data Platform: triggered by 'OLTP query p99 degrading during analytics reporting windows;'.

Migration Step 2

Both scenarios define a migration step at this stage. Distributed Job Queue Platform: triggered by 'High-priority transactional jobs (e.g., payment processing, '. Analytics Data Platform: triggered by 'Sub-minute analytics freshness SLA required; ETL scheduling '.

Migration Step 3

Both scenarios define a migration step at this stage. Distributed Job Queue Platform: triggered by 'Multi-step jobs (e.g., ingest file → validate → transform → '. Analytics Data Platform: triggered by 'Dashboard query p95 > 5s on frequently accessed aggregation '.

Worker idle rate > 20% despite queue depth > 10k pending jobs; PostgreSQL pg_locks showing wait events on job table index; worker job claim p99 latency > 50ms (claim should be sub-10ms with correct indexing); CPU on PostgreSQL elevated from index scan overhead on job claim queries

Tier 1: Job Claim Lock Contention: Missing or misconfigured partial index on the job claim query; high worker concurrency driving SELECT FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED contention on a narrow hot page. Recommended evolution: Add a partial index on (priority DESC, created_at ASC) WHERE status = 'pending' AND run_at <= NOW(): the WHERE clause reduces the index to only claimable jobs, dramatically reducing index scan range; if contention persists, implement a job dispatch service (single dispatcher process) that batches claim queries and distributes job IDs to workers via an in-memory channel, removing per-worker database claims; tune FILLFACTOR on the job table to 70% to reduce hot page contention on SKIP LOCKED .

High-priority job queue depth growing despite workers available; low-priority batch jobs showing high throughput while transactional job latency (time from enqueue to execution start) p95 > 30s; worker pool metrics showing workers claiming jobs uniformly across priority levels rather than draining the high- priority queue first

Tier 2: Priority Inversion Under Load: Single worker pool consuming from all priority queues with equal weight; no priority-weighted polling implementation. Recommended evolution: Separate worker pools per priority tier (e.g., dedicated transactional workers for high-priority jobs, shared workers for low-priority batch); or implement priority-weighted polling in a unified worker pool (poll high-priority queue N times before polling low-priority queue once, where N is the priority weight ratio); add high-priority job execution latency as a first-class SLA metric with alerting threshold separate from batch job latency .

Kafka consumer group lag (bytes or offsets) growing for the analytics topic group; ClickHouse dashboard timestamps falling behind wall clock by > 60s; ClickHouse insert throughput < Kafka produce rate

Tier 1: Consumer Lag and Freshness Degradation: ClickHouse insert throughput insufficient for Kafka produce rate. Recommended evolution: Tune ClickHouse insert buffer size and async_insert settings; increase consumer parallelism up to the Kafka partition count; batch inserts into ClickHouse using the Buffer engine or materialized views with merge trees .

One Kafka partition offset growing significantly faster than others; one consumer instance CPU/network saturated while others are idle

Tier 2: Hot Partition and Skewed Consumer Load: Skewed partition key distribution: high-cardinality entity routing the same high-volume key to one partition. Recommended evolution: Add a secondary hash suffix to the partition key to distribute load; increase topic partition count (note: keyed ordering breaks for existing messages); re-evaluate partition key selection based on actual cardinality measurements .