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I agree with that. Doing some kind of asynchronous garbage collection (Dumping all uploaded files, dumping the filenames from DB, and deleting all that are not

I agree with that. Doing some kind of asynchronous garbage collection (Dumping all uploaded files, dumping the filenames from DB, and deleting all that are not required anymore) might be a lot easier to get right and reliable than trying to do everything in the request path.

fgonzag 8y ago
This is a such a good solution in many cases and is often ignored.
fatnoah 8y ago
This is what I did at a previous company where the main product was a messaging app with daily active users in the millions. Deletions were bit flips that were then cleaned up later by a cron job.