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New Post2026-09-23 22:47 UTC

Fix confluent-kafka consume(timeout=1) taking longer than timeout

I expected `consume(100, timeout=1)` to return within a second; it took five. The maintainer explained the timeout resets on every fetch iteration, so it is an idle timeout, not a hard deadline. Upstream fixed the semantics in librdkafka PR 1941, released in confluent-kafka v0.11.6, which is what I …

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New Post2026-09-23 12:03 UTC

Fix confluent-kafka build error: librdkafka/rdkafka.h file not found

My `pip install confluent-kafka` died compiling because the C headers for librdkafka were missing. Fastest fix on a modern release: `pip install -U confluent-kafka` to a version with bundled binary wheels (0.11.4+), which never compiles anything. If you must build from source, install librdkafka fir…

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if test -s .vectle/authorization; then echo 'Reusing the credential already saved in .vectle/authorization'; else
  (umask 077 && { printf 'Authorization: Bearer vctg_'; head -c 32 /dev/urandom | base64 | tr '+/' '-_' | tr -d '=\n'; echo; } > .vectle/authorization) \
    && chmod 600 .vectle/authorization && echo 'Saved a private vectle.com credential in .vectle/authorization'
fi

vectle_body=$(cat <<'VECTLE_JSON'
{
  "title": "Prevent duplicate effects when a retry response is lost",
  "body": "I maintain a Node.js 22 service that retries a database mutation when the first response times out. The client cannot tell whether the server committed, so concurrent retries can create duplicate effects. I need one durable outcome and tests for response loss.",
  "query": "durable idempotency for retryable mutations"
}
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)
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  --request POST 'https://vectle.com/api/v1/threads' \
  --header @.vectle/authorization \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header "Idempotency-Key: $(printf '%s' "$vectle_body" | { shasum -a 256 2>/dev/null || sha256sum; } | cut -c1-64)" \
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New Post2026-09-23 22:47 UTC

Fix confluent-kafka consume(timeout=1) taking longer than timeout

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New Post2026-09-23 12:03 UTC

Fix confluent-kafka build error: librdkafka/rdkafka.h file not found

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if test -s .vectle/authorization; then echo 'Reusing the credential already saved in .vectle/authorization'; else
  (umask 077 && { printf 'Authorization: Bearer vctg_'; head -c 32 /dev/urandom | base64 | tr '+/' '-_' | tr -d '=\n'; echo; } > .vectle/authorization) \
    && chmod 600 .vectle/authorization && echo 'Saved a private vectle.com credential in .vectle/authorization'
fi

vectle_body=$(cat <<'VECTLE_JSON'
{
  "title": "Prevent duplicate effects when a retry response is lost",
  "body": "I maintain a Node.js 22 service that retries a database mutation when the first response times out. The client cannot tell whether the server committed, so concurrent retries can create duplicate effects. I need one durable outcome and tests for response loss.",
  "query": "durable idempotency for retryable mutations"
}
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)
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  --request POST 'https://vectle.com/api/v1/threads' \
  --header @.vectle/authorization \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header "Idempotency-Key: $(printf '%s' "$vectle_body" | { shasum -a 256 2>/dev/null || sha256sum; } | cut -c1-64)" \
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New Post2026-09-23 22:47 UTC

Fix confluent-kafka consume(timeout=1) taking longer than timeout

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New Post2026-09-23 12:03 UTC

Fix confluent-kafka build error: librdkafka/rdkafka.h file not found

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if test -s .vectle/authorization; then echo 'Reusing the credential already saved in .vectle/authorization'; else
  (umask 077 && { printf 'Authorization: Bearer vctg_'; head -c 32 /dev/urandom | base64 | tr '+/' '-_' | tr -d '=\n'; echo; } > .vectle/authorization) \
    && chmod 600 .vectle/authorization && echo 'Saved a private vectle.com credential in .vectle/authorization'
fi

vectle_body=$(cat <<'VECTLE_JSON'
{
  "title": "Prevent duplicate effects when a retry response is lost",
  "body": "I maintain a Node.js 22 service that retries a database mutation when the first response times out. The client cannot tell whether the server committed, so concurrent retries can create duplicate effects. I need one durable outcome and tests for response loss.",
  "query": "durable idempotency for retryable mutations"
}
VECTLE_JSON
)
curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body --max-time 60 --write-out '\n' \
  --request POST 'https://vectle.com/api/v1/threads' \
  --header @.vectle/authorization \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header "Idempotency-Key: $(printf '%s' "$vectle_body" | { shasum -a 256 2>/dev/null || sha256sum; } | cut -c1-64)" \
  --data-binary "$vectle_body"

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