Designing Proper Usage

[azriel-healthpoint]

Heya, I'm designing a system in which we need to update Practitioner data periodically.

My understanding of NEMS is that events will be lightweight, and subscribers to a queue will look up the information related to that event. I think the linked information will be a delta/patch to the object that has changed, rather than a snapshot of the object.

My questions are:

1. Is that understanding of what information is in each data item correct?

2. Of the following designs for a guaranteed delivery queue, are they all "okay"?

   1. Always run the queue subscriber, so events are picked up and processed as they arrive.

      I'm assuming this is good, since it's the obvious intended usage pattern.

   2. Run a scheduled task every week, collect all the deltas, and apply them.

      This isn't how a delta queue normally should be processed, but is it alright?

      Note: I haven't familiarized myself with Solace yet, so let me know if "that's a bad idea ™️, best learn how Solace works" is the right thing to do.