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AINGEST-102 · Validate batch boundaries

Cap decompressed telemetry bytes before archive expansion

Practice briefBugAdvanced

A tiny compressed batch expands far beyond the ingestion worker's memory budget.

Focused work estimate
3h + prerequisites
Priority in the scenario
High
Engineering practice
Streaming · Resource limits

Estimated field mix

  • Data engineering40%
  • Performance engineering30%
  • Security30%

Field percentages are editorial estimates of the ticket's engineering focus. They total 100%; they are not measured time, proficiency scores, or ownership evidence.

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Project context

A fictional energy dashboard receives hourly device batches. Corrupt archives and late corrections leave operators unsure which readings reached reports.

Setup prerequisites

  • Create synthetic device batches and local object-store fixtures.
  • Understand checksums and bounded streaming.

Preceding work

Complete these dependencies, or supply their agreed outputs before taking this ticket.

Acceptance criteria

  • Enforce compressed, expanded-byte and row limits.
  • Stop streaming as soon as a bound is crossed.
  • Quarantine with a reason without loading partial rows.

Implementation constraints

  • Do not unpack paths or execute files from archives.

Verification to include

  • Ingest a valid compressed synthetic batch.
  • Exercise excessive expansion and path-like entry names without writing outside staging.

Deliverables

  • Bounded decoder and hostile archive fixtures

Rollout and recovery

Enable bounded decoding before partner intake; keep rejected objects quarantined.

Value of the work

For the engineer: Practice batch integrity, replay and data-quality boundaries.

For the team: Review whether operational data can be traced, corrected and recovered.

Evidence boundaries

Outcome Evidence: Tests, patches, and runbooks are requested deliverables. They become Outcome Evidence only through a qualified Mission and immutable Evidence IDs.

Ownership Evidence: Independent adaptation must be observed under a declared verification policy and cite immutable Evidence IDs. Completing a planning ticket establishes no Ownership Evidence.