# \#dev

**URL:** https://forum.mergetb.net/tag/dev/8.md

[Latest](https://forum.mergetb.net/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.mergetb.net/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.mergetb.net/tags.md)

---

## [Advance realization aka temporal realization](https://forum.mergetb.net/t/advance-realization-aka-temporal-realization/154)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@glawler](https://forum.mergetb.net/u/glawler)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [May 14, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://forum.mergetb.net/t/advance-realization-aka-temporal-realization/154 "2025-05-14T21:46:14Z")

</div>

We want to add the concept of future realizations to the Merge code. Since realizations already include a duration, all we’d need to add to the realization API is a start argument. We could also make this in a constrai…

---

## [Multi-Site design requirements](https://forum.mergetb.net/t/multi-site-design-requirements/142)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@elkins](https://forum.mergetb.net/u/elkins)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 26, 2024, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.mergetb.net/t/multi-site-design-requirements/142 "2024-04-26T19:13:19Z")

</div>

I would like to start gathering design requirements for multi-site support in Merge. I will start off with a set of questions, some of which may have already been thought through. The assumption is that there will be a …

---

## [API versioning discussion](https://forum.mergetb.net/t/api-versioning-discussion/141)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@jdbarnes](https://forum.mergetb.net/u/jdbarnes)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 19, 2024, 2:18am UTC](https://forum.mergetb.net/t/api-versioning-discussion/141 "2024-03-19T02:18:37Z")

</div>

The current state of client-server and portal-facility interactions is such that if the api is updated on one side of the interaction and the other side is not, there will potentially be a mismatch in features supported …

---

## [Near Term Stats Design in the Merge Portal](https://forum.mergetb.net/t/near-term-stats-design-in-the-merge-portal/136)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@glawler](https://forum.mergetb.net/u/glawler)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 19, 2024, 1:31am UTC](https://forum.mergetb.net/t/near-term-stats-design-in-the-merge-portal/136 "2024-03-19T01:31:21Z")

</div>

This is a brief post to discuss the design discussion had today with Brian, Joe, and Geoff. We need a moderately quick way to implement the following statistics for Merge. Materialization start and end events Realizati…

---

## [Facilitating large transactions through etcd](https://forum.mergetb.net/t/facilitating-large-transactions-through-etcd/140)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@bkocolos](https://forum.mergetb.net/u/bkocolos)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [February 6, 2024, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.mergetb.net/t/facilitating-large-transactions-through-etcd/140 "2024-02-06T00:32:37Z")

</div>

The etcd API provides a notion of a Transaction to facilitate use in distributed applications. Transactions provide several key features: They allow updates to multiple keys to be performed atomically - e.g., assume th…

---

## [Dealing With Asynchrony](https://forum.mergetb.net/t/dealing-with-asynchrony/139)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@christra](https://forum.mergetb.net/u/christra)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [January 30, 2024, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.mergetb.net/t/dealing-with-asynchrony/139 "2024-01-30T19:59:57Z")

</div>

MergeTB Reconciler Architecture Overview The vast majority of services for the reference MergeTB Portal and Facility operate under the design pattern known as the reconciler controller loop under a Publisher/Subscriber…