poison message
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[edit]Noun
[edit]poison message (plural poison messages)
- (computing) A message that causes processing to fail, and thus remains in the message queue and prevents processing of further messages.
- 2011, Neil Mackenzie, Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook:
- When there is only a single consumer, a poison message can completely block processing of the queue.
Usage notes
[edit]- Associated with the Microsoft Azure cloud computing architecture.