State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

Merril Myers

Justin Devore

Garren King

Holly Kay Sanderson

Andrew Mathes

Barbara Williford

Andy Pulkstenis

Stephanie Langland

Deepak Maheshwari

Ketih Sartain

Ryan Leverton

Mehron Beheshti

Richard Carl Brown

Alexandria Pokorny

This disclosure describes techniques for handling asynchronous and synchronous requests to update a database field. Asynchronous update requests are stored in a queue and processed later, while synchronous requests are processed immediately to return the current state. Requests that generate errors are stored in a separate error queue and retried later. The data field state is updated in a state database based on both asynchronous and synchronous requests. State updates are provided to a software application via different communication channels like persistent connections, representational state transfer (REST) application programming interfaces (APIs), and WebSocket notifications based on configurable state definitions. This allows the software application to retrieve the latest data field state synchronously or receive asynchronous notifications when the state changes.

Coordinated asynchronous and real-time database update processing

Variants of an application, such as user interface variants and/or logic variants, can be used in a production environment as part of a designed experiment. An experiment manager can cause the application to operate based on different variants for different users and/or instances of input data. Synchronous and/or asynchronous results can be collected that indicate impacts of the variants at the application and/or other downstream systems. Such asynchronous and/or synchronous results can be used to prove or disprove a hypothesis associated with the designed experiment.

Designed experiments for application variants

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