Non‑blocking services, backpressure, and streaming for real‑time chains

Introduction

Most blockchain UIs and backends are basically stream processors pretending to be request/response APIs. Blocks keep coming, mempools churn, order books move, wallet balances change.

Traditional Spring MVC gives each request a dedicated thread. That works until you try to:

  • serve thousands of open SSE/WebSocket connections, or
  • stream live chain data while hitting databases and external APIs.

Spring WebFlux and Reactor were built exactly for this: non‑blocking I/O + backpressure so you can push more through the same hardware without drowning slower consumers.(Home)

In this article I’ll focus on WebFlux as it applies to blockchain systems: how the reactive model actually differs, how backpressure helps with chain firehoses, how to do streaming APIs (SSE/WebSocket), and how to avoid killing the benefit by calling blocking databases.

Prerequisites

I’ll assume you already know Spring Boot on the MVC side, have at least one indexer or chain‑aware backend in production, and have hit some combination of “too many open connections”, “too many blocked threads”, or “the explorer falls over every time we enable live updates”.

No Kotlin or Java code here; just architecture, diagrams, and mental models you can map to your own stack.

1. Where WebFlux fits in the Spring stack

Spring WebFlux is Spring’s reactive‑stack web framework. Instead of “one thread per request”, it uses an event loop and non‑blocking I/O so that a small pool of threads can serve many concurrent requests.(Home)

I think of it like this:

Spring MVC (blocking)
---------------------
[request] -> [thread waits on I/O] -> [response]
           -> [one waiting thread per socket]

Spring WebFlux (non-blocking)
-----------------------------
[request] -> [event loop] -> [I/O callbacks + small worker pool]
           -> [threads reused across many sockets]

WebFlux is built on Project Reactor. You see that through the two core types:

  • a single result or completion → Mono
  • a stream of results → Flux

Under the hood, Reactor implements the Reactive Streams spec: publishers, subscribers, and a standard way to signal demand (backpressure).(Home)

For blockchain workloads this model shines when you have lots of I/O‑bound work: talking to nodes, RPC providers, reactive databases, message brokers and websockets at the same time.

2. Blockchain‑specific use cases for WebFlux

Not every blockchain service needs WebFlux. A simple admin API that occasionally queries a ledger can be perfectly happy on MVC.

Where WebFlux earns its keep is when you need:

  • live streams: new blocks, pending transactions, order book deltas, staking events;
  • many long‑lived connections: dashboards and explorers with SSE/WebSockets open all day;
  • slow or variable downstreams: RPC providers, third‑party APIs, or databases with spiky latency.

Picture something like this:

[ Bitcoin / Cardano / Cosmos nodes ]
                 |
           ingest / indexer
                 |
            Kafka / queue
                 |
          +------+------+
          |  WebFlux API|
          |  (SSE, WS)  |
          +------+------+
                 |
        browsers, dApps, services

WebFlux lets that middle box keep thousands of clients fed with updates without allocating a thread per connection, and without overwhelming slow ones if you handle backpressure properly.(Home)

3. Backpressure: not flooding slow consumers

Backpressure is just flow control: the ability of a consumer to say “slow down” to a producer. Reactive Streams phrases it as the subscriber signalling how many elements it is ready to receive, instead of the publisher pushing unbounded data.(Home)

For blockchain, imagine a stream of mempool events:

fast producer:   node / Kafka topic
slow consumer:   user's browser on 3G

without backpressure:
   producer pushes all txs -> server queues them -> memory explodes

with backpressure:
   consumer only requests N events at a time
   server buffers at most N + safety margin

ASCII sketch:

[ Producer ] ---> [ WebFlux pipeline ] ---> [ Consumer ]
     |                      ^                     |
     |                      |                     |
   events          "I can handle M more"      processing

Reactor and WebFlux implement this contract directly. If a downstream stage is slow, it can reduce demand; upstream publishers can buffer, drop, or slow down instead of blindly pushing.(Baeldung on Kotlin)

In practice, you tune your pipelines with strategies like:

  • buffering within limits when short spikes happen;
  • sampling or keeping only the most recent value (for dashboards);
  • windowing/ batching for heavy database writes.

Backpressure does not magically fix bad design, but it gives you the primitives to avoid “node is fine, DB is fine, but the WebFlux API died because one subscriber was too slow”.

4. Streaming APIs: SSE and WebSockets

For blockchain UIs I mostly reach for Server‑Sent Events (SSE) and WebSockets on top of WebFlux.

SSE is a simple HTTP‑based, server‑to‑client streaming protocol. The server keeps an HTTP connection open and pushes events as text, and the browser uses the EventSource API to listen. It’s one‑way (server → client) and very well supported.(MDN Web Docs)

That looks like:

[ WebFlux SSE endpoint ] ==(HTTP stream)==> [ Browser EventSource ]

Perfect for:

  • new blocks and transactions;
  • price feeds;
  • “portfolio changed” events.

WebSockets give you full duplex channels. For trading UIs, collaborative admin tools, or scenarios where the client needs to push frequent updates (e.g. signed orders), WebSockets on WebFlux work well; but they are also more stateful and require more care on backpressure and resource limits.

Both SSE and WebSockets benefit from WebFlux’s non‑blocking nature: thousands of open streams no longer mean thousands of blocked threads. Guides and examples show SSE implemented idiomatically with WebFlux, combining it with Reactor to push events as they become available.(j’ai acheté un PC…)

5. Reactive databases: R2DBC and friends

You don’t get much benefit from a reactive web layer if every request calls a blocking JDBC driver under the hood. The event loop will just block on database I/O, and you are back to “wait per request, just with more complexity”.

That’s why the Spring team and the community pushed R2DBC and reactive database drivers: non‑blocking APIs for SQL and NoSQL databases.(Home)

Conceptually:

MVC + JDBC:
   request -> controller -> JDBC call (thread blocks) -> response

WebFlux + R2DBC:
   request -> handler -> reactive DB publisher
           -> event loop continues, callback when rows are ready

R2DBC is a specification and driver family that brings reactive APIs to relational databases. Spring Data R2DBC builds on that so you can query SQL databases in a non‑blocking way and integrate naturally with WebFlux.(Baeldung on Kotlin)

StackOverflow threads make this point very bluntly: wrapping blocking JDBC calls in a Flux or Mono does not make them non‑blocking; you need actual reactive drivers or a separate bounded thread pool for blocking I/O.(Stack Overflow)

For blockchain indexers and explorers, reactive DB access is useful when you:

  • scan large time‑ranges (transaction history, logs) and want to stream results;
  • need to fan out the same chain data to many consumers;
  • want to keep the entire request path non‑blocking end‑to‑end.

6. A typical reactive blockchain service shape

To make this concrete, imagine a “live activity” service that feeds explorers and dashboards with near‑real‑time events.

Architecture in text:

[ Nodes / indexers ]
        |
   (events)
        v
[ Stream (Kafka, Redis, etc.) ]
        |
        v
+------------------------------+
| Spring WebFlux service       |
|------------------------------|
| - consume reactive stream    |
| - optional reactive DB writes|
| - expose SSE/WebSocket to UI |
+------------------------------+
        |
        v
  browsers, dashboards, dApps

Data flows as a stream all the way through. The WebFlux service:

  • subscribes to a reactive source of chain events (Kafka, a reactive client, or your own publisher);(LinkedIn)
  • applies transformations, filters, backpressure strategies;
  • optionally persists to a reactive database;
  • pushes updates to client UIs via SSE/WebSockets.

No stage is forced to buffer everything in memory; each stage can say how much it can handle.

Production note. On one project we started with a blocking REST API doing “long polling” for new blocks. Moving to WebFlux + SSE allowed us to serve thousands of open dashboards from a small pod set, with much better latency and lower CPU. The indexer stayed the same; we just changed how we moved events from it to browsers.

7. Testing reactive blockchain services

Reactive code changes how you test.

You want to exercise:

  • ordering and completeness for streaming responses;
  • behaviour under slow subscribers;
  • integration with non‑reactive components at the edges.

At a high level, I like to:

  • feed a controlled stream of synthetic blocks/transactions into the service;
  • simulate a slow client and watch how the service responds (buffering vs dropping vs back‑pressure);
  • verify that backpressure signals flow “backwards” to upstream sources in the way you expect.

Project Reactor’s test tools and the broader WebFlux ecosystem have well‑documented practices for testing reactive flows under backpressure, scheduling, and cancellations.(Home)

The important part is to treat “time” explicitly in tests: delayed elements, cancellations, and closed connections should be first‑class cases, not afterthoughts.

8. Production considerations

Reactive doesn’t automatically mean “better”. I always sanity‑check a few things before committing to WebFlux in a blockchain project.

First, the workload. WebFlux shines for highly concurrent, I/O‑bound, streaming workloads. Simple admin APIs that query once and return don’t need it and may be easier with MVC. Spring’s own guidance emphasises this: use WebFlux where non‑blocking I/O and backpressure are real requirements.(Home)

Second, blocking boundaries. Any blocking call inside a WebFlux handler (JDBC, synchronous HTTP client, blocking JSON parsing) undermines the model. If you must call blocking APIs, isolate them behind limited thread pools and treat them as “edge nodes” in your reactive graph.

Third, observability. You want metrics for:

  • event loop thread utilisation;
  • queue sizes and buffers;
  • throughput and latency per stream endpoint;
  • number of open SSE/WebSocket connections.

Backpressure problems often show up as growing buffers, increased GC, and then sudden collapse. Catching that early in dashboards is much cheaper than finding out when the explorer dies during a traffic spike.(zen8labs |)

Production note. On a BSC indexer I once saw a WebFlux‑based streaming API quietly accumulate huge buffers because a few downstream consumers were misbehaving. Latency started in the low milliseconds and slowly climbed into seconds. The fix was a combination of proper backpressure (limiting demand) and a “latest only” strategy for some dashboards that only needed the current state, not every event.

9. Conclusion

Spring WebFlux gives you three things that map almost perfectly to blockchain backends:

- non-blocking I/O for handling many concurrent connections,
- explicit backpressure to avoid drowning slow consumers,
- first-class streaming support (SSE, WebSockets) and
  a path to reactive storage via R2DBC and other reactive drivers.

Used in the right places – live feeds, mempool dashboards, cross‑chain streaming APIs – it lets you turn “blockchain as a firehose” into services that are scalable, responsive, and actually pleasant to operate.

The trade‑off is extra complexity and a stricter discipline around blocking calls. If you accept that cost where it buys you real concurrency and streaming benefits, WebFlux becomes a very natural fit for modern blockchain infrastructure.

Source notes

  • Spring reactive overview and WebFlux docs.(Home)
  • Spring Data R2DBC guides and articles on reactive database access.(Baeldung on Kotlin)
  • Articles on backpressure in reactive systems and Reactive Streams.(Baeldung on Kotlin)
  • Server‑Sent Events and WebFlux examples and explanations.(MDN Web Docs)
  • Discussions on combining WebFlux with blocking resources and where it makes sense.(Stack Overflow)

Completion scope and production contract

This completion review turns the earlier conceptual treatment into a release-oriented engineering contract. It treats Spring WebFlux for Reactive Blockchain Applications as a Kotlin and Spring backend component, follows a request, domain command, event, database transaction, coroutine, or stream record through validation and durable state, and separates normative requirements from implementation policy. The normative baseline is the domain contract, published API schema, database constraints, and framework lifecycle; deployment defaults, caching, retry limits, and operator thresholds are explicitly local policy. 10

The intended audience is experienced developers and architects. Readers should understand the surrounding chain or application model, typed data structures, persistence, and basic security engineering. The scope includes correctness, implementation boundaries, deterministic tests, failure recovery, security, performance, and observability. It does not claim that the educational companion is a drop-in replacement for a maintained protocol or cryptographic library. Production adoption requires an independent threat model, compatibility testing against the authoritative implementation, and operational ownership. 11

The mental model used throughout is deliberately strict: untrusted input crosses HTTP, authentication, messaging, domain, database, and downstream-node boundaries; a validator derives facts under the domain contract, published API schema, database constraints, and framework lifecycle; accepted transitions update transactional domain state plus replayable processing progress; and observers consume committed facts, never optimistic intermediate mutations. A guarantee is stated only when it follows from those rules and assumptions. Heuristics such as fee selection, caching, peer scoring, timeouts, user messaging, or alert thresholds remain policy and may be tuned without redefining validity. 12

Reader contract and scope

For Spring WebFlux for Reactive Blockchain Applications, this review makes the exact user decision and the prerequisites needed to make it safely explicit. Start from one request, domain command, event, database transaction, coroutine, or stream record and write down its origin, canonical representation, validation context, authority, and durable outcome. The Kotlin and Spring backend component must not infer a stronger fact from transport success, cache presence, or an upstream acknowledgement. Its authoritative state is transactional domain state plus replayable processing progress, and every projection must remain rebuildable or reconcilable from committed facts. This framing distinguishes a protocol guarantee from an operational convenience and gives reviewers a concrete place to challenge an assumption. 10

The principal failure to design against is an attractive example being mistaken for a complete production design. Address it before optimizing by defining a narrow ownership boundary, stable identities, bounded resource use, and a machine-readable outcome for every rejected transition. Record a scope statement, excluded concerns, and a reviewable acceptance criterion. A reviewer should be able to trace each accepted result to input bytes, rule or policy version, prior state, and commit identity without relying on prose logs. When the authority cannot be reached or context is incomplete, return an explicit unavailable or pending state; do not convert uncertainty into acceptance.

Precise vocabulary and authority

Treat precise vocabulary and authority as part of the executable design of Spring WebFlux for Reactive Blockchain Applications, not as documentation added after coding. The relevant operating envelope includes historical ingestion, bursty APIs, retries, rolling deployment, backfill, and downstream degradation. For each mode, identify which state is authoritative, which work may be retried, what is bounded, and which observation proves progress. This is especially important across HTTP, authentication, messaging, domain, database, and downstream-node boundaries, where delivery and processing are different events and where local time or arrival order may not reflect authoritative order. 11

A useful review asks how the design behaves under lost update, duplicate event, poison record, pool exhaustion, timeout, schema skew, and inconsistent retry. The unsafe outcome is teams using the same word for incompatible states or guarantees. Prevent it with explicit preconditions and postconditions, and retain a glossary tied to the normative authority for every overloaded term as release evidence. Use stable codes rather than exception text, keep policy configuration versioned, and attach the accepted policy or rule version to durable results. An service or data-platform operator must be able to stop intake, drain or quarantine work, compare local state with authority, and resume without inventing a second side effect.

Trust assumptions

The implementation of Spring WebFlux for Reactive Blockchain Applications should expose which actors, clocks, stores, libraries, and upstream systems may fail or act maliciously through types and module boundaries. Parse external representations once, preserve the original identity when audit or replay needs it, and pass validated domain values inward. Mutations of transactional domain state plus replayable processing progress belong behind one authoritative transition function or transaction boundary. Network clients, storage adapters, user interfaces, and telemetry exporters must not duplicate consensus or business rules. That separation keeps deterministic logic testable and prevents a library upgrade from silently redefining validity. 12

Assume that an implicit trusted component invalidating the claimed guarantee will eventually occur in a staging fault test or production incident. The control is not a catch-all retry: classify the outcome, decide whether the identical operation is safe to repeat, bound attempts and elapsed time, and surface terminal work for reconciliation. The minimum evidence is a trust-boundary diagram and an assumption register with owners. Keep credentials, bearer tokens, signing requests, customer identifiers, and database change history out of ordinary logs, and prefer hashes, version identifiers, counts, and sanitized reason codes. Any emergency bypass must be narrow, time-limited, approved, and observable.

Architecture and ownership

Verification for Spring WebFlux for Reactive Blockchain Applications must demonstrate component responsibilities and the direction in which facts and commands move at several layers. Small tests cover deterministic transforms and boundary values; contract tests pin serialized forms; integration tests exercise real adapters; replay tests compare state roots or projections; and fault tests interrupt work at every commit boundary. The dataset must include normal history, malformed input, duplicates, reordering, maximum-size values, and changes of rule or schema version. A passing example is evidence about that environment and dataset, not a universal performance claim. 10

Make two components both believing they own the same transition a named negative test. The release packet should retain a context diagram, ownership table, and dependency rule, exact dependency and tool versions, the deterministic command, and its result. For performance work, report warm-up, repetitions, concurrency, percentiles, resource limits, and the point where backpressure begins. For security work, include abuse cases and independent review. A change is ready only when failures leave transactional domain state plus replayable processing progress safe, recovery is rehearsed, and telemetry explains both user-visible outcome and operator action.

Canonical representation

For Spring WebFlux for Reactive Blockchain Applications, this review makes the byte-level or schema-level representation used for hashing, comparison, storage, and transport explicit. Start from one request, domain command, event, database transaction, coroutine, or stream record and write down its origin, canonical representation, validation context, authority, and durable outcome. The Kotlin and Spring backend component must not infer a stronger fact from transport success, cache presence, or an upstream acknowledgement. Its authoritative state is transactional domain state plus replayable processing progress, and every projection must remain rebuildable or reconcilable from committed facts. This framing distinguishes a protocol guarantee from an operational convenience and gives reviewers a concrete place to challenge an assumption. 11

The principal failure to design against is semantically equal values producing different identifiers or verification outcomes. Address it before optimizing by defining a narrow ownership boundary, stable identities, bounded resource use, and a machine-readable outcome for every rejected transition. Record golden encodings, round-trip tests, and rejection of non-canonical forms. A reviewer should be able to trace each accepted result to input bytes, rule or policy version, prior state, and commit identity without relying on prose logs. When the authority cannot be reached or context is incomplete, return an explicit unavailable or pending state; do not convert uncertainty into acceptance.

State-machine model

Treat state-machine model as part of the executable design of Spring WebFlux for Reactive Blockchain Applications, not as documentation added after coding. The relevant operating envelope includes historical ingestion, bursty APIs, retries, rolling deployment, backfill, and downstream degradation. For each mode, identify which state is authoritative, which work may be retried, what is bounded, and which observation proves progress. This is especially important across HTTP, authentication, messaging, domain, database, and downstream-node boundaries, where delivery and processing are different events and where local time or arrival order may not reflect authoritative order. 12

A useful review asks how the design behaves under lost update, duplicate event, poison record, pool exhaustion, timeout, schema skew, and inconsistent retry. The unsafe outcome is an impossible intermediate state becoming durable after interruption. Prevent it with explicit preconditions and postconditions, and retain a transition table exercised by positive, negative, and replay tests as release evidence. Use stable codes rather than exception text, keep policy configuration versioned, and attach the accepted policy or rule version to durable results. An service or data-platform operator must be able to stop intake, drain or quarantine work, compare local state with authority, and resume without inventing a second side effect.

Invariants

The implementation of Spring WebFlux for Reactive Blockchain Applications should expose properties that must hold before and after every accepted operation through types and module boundaries. Parse external representations once, preserve the original identity when audit or replay needs it, and pass validated domain values inward. Mutations of transactional domain state plus replayable processing progress belong behind one authoritative transition function or transaction boundary. Network clients, storage adapters, user interfaces, and telemetry exporters must not duplicate consensus or business rules. That separation keeps deterministic logic testable and prevents a library upgrade from silently redefining validity. 10

Assume that local success concealing corruption in a related aggregate or index will eventually occur in a staging fault test or production incident. The control is not a catch-all retry: classify the outcome, decide whether the identical operation is safe to repeat, bound attempts and elapsed time, and surface terminal work for reconciliation. The minimum evidence is executable assertions at the narrowest authoritative boundary. Keep credentials, bearer tokens, signing requests, customer identifiers, and database change history out of ordinary logs, and prefer hashes, version identifiers, counts, and sanitized reason codes. Any emergency bypass must be narrow, time-limited, approved, and observable.

Validation pipeline

Verification for Spring WebFlux for Reactive Blockchain Applications must demonstrate cheap structural checks, contextual checks, authoritative verification, and commit order at several layers. Small tests cover deterministic transforms and boundary values; contract tests pin serialized forms; integration tests exercise real adapters; replay tests compare state roots or projections; and fault tests interrupt work at every commit boundary. The dataset must include normal history, malformed input, duplicates, reordering, maximum-size values, and changes of rule or schema version. A passing example is evidence about that environment and dataset, not a universal performance claim. 11

Make expensive or stateful work running before malformed input is rejected a named negative test. The release packet should retain ordered validation stages with stable machine-readable rejection codes, exact dependency and tool versions, the deterministic command, and its result. For performance work, report warm-up, repetitions, concurrency, percentiles, resource limits, and the point where backpressure begins. For security work, include abuse cases and independent review. A change is ready only when failures leave transactional domain state plus replayable processing progress safe, recovery is rehearsed, and telemetry explains both user-visible outcome and operator action.

Error semantics

For Spring WebFlux for Reactive Blockchain Applications, this review makes the distinction between invalid input, conflict, unavailable dependency, retryable interruption, and internal defect explicit. Start from one request, domain command, event, database transaction, coroutine, or stream record and write down its origin, canonical representation, validation context, authority, and durable outcome. The Kotlin and Spring backend component must not infer a stronger fact from transport success, cache presence, or an upstream acknowledgement. Its authoritative state is transactional domain state plus replayable processing progress, and every projection must remain rebuildable or reconcilable from committed facts. This framing distinguishes a protocol guarantee from an operational convenience and gives reviewers a concrete place to challenge an assumption. 12

The principal failure to design against is blind retries amplifying a permanent failure or changing user intent. Address it before optimizing by defining a narrow ownership boundary, stable identities, bounded resource use, and a machine-readable outcome for every rejected transition. Record typed errors mapped consistently across logs, metrics, APIs, and queues. A reviewer should be able to trace each accepted result to input bytes, rule or policy version, prior state, and commit identity without relying on prose logs. When the authority cannot be reached or context is incomplete, return an explicit unavailable or pending state; do not convert uncertainty into acceptance.

Concurrency control

Treat concurrency control as part of the executable design of Spring WebFlux for Reactive Blockchain Applications, not as documentation added after coding. The relevant operating envelope includes historical ingestion, bursty APIs, retries, rolling deployment, backfill, and downstream degradation. For each mode, identify which state is authoritative, which work may be retried, what is bounded, and which observation proves progress. This is especially important across HTTP, authentication, messaging, domain, database, and downstream-node boundaries, where delivery and processing are different events and where local time or arrival order may not reflect authoritative order. 10

A useful review asks how the design behaves under lost update, duplicate event, poison record, pool exhaustion, timeout, schema skew, and inconsistent retry. The unsafe outcome is a check-then-act race accepting two individually plausible operations. Prevent it with explicit preconditions and postconditions, and retain a linearization argument plus stress tests at the chosen contention boundary as release evidence. Use stable codes rather than exception text, keep policy configuration versioned, and attach the accepted policy or rule version to durable results. An service or data-platform operator must be able to stop intake, drain or quarantine work, compare local state with authority, and resume without inventing a second side effect.

Idempotency and replay

The implementation of Spring WebFlux for Reactive Blockchain Applications should expose how duplicate delivery, process restart, and historical backfill preserve the same result through types and module boundaries. Parse external representations once, preserve the original identity when audit or replay needs it, and pass validated domain values inward. Mutations of transactional domain state plus replayable processing progress belong behind one authoritative transition function or transaction boundary. Network clients, storage adapters, user interfaces, and telemetry exporters must not duplicate consensus or business rules. That separation keeps deterministic logic testable and prevents a library upgrade from silently redefining validity. 11

Assume that at-least-once delivery creating a second side effect will eventually occur in a staging fault test or production incident. The control is not a catch-all retry: classify the outcome, decide whether the identical operation is safe to repeat, bound attempts and elapsed time, and surface terminal work for reconciliation. The minimum evidence is stable operation identities, deduplication state, and deterministic replay fixtures. Keep credentials, bearer tokens, signing requests, customer identifiers, and database change history out of ordinary logs, and prefer hashes, version identifiers, counts, and sanitized reason codes. Any emergency bypass must be narrow, time-limited, approved, and observable.

Persistence and atomicity

Verification for Spring WebFlux for Reactive Blockchain Applications must demonstrate which facts commit together and how derived views catch up at several layers. Small tests cover deterministic transforms and boundary values; contract tests pin serialized forms; integration tests exercise real adapters; replay tests compare state roots or projections; and fault tests interrupt work at every commit boundary. The dataset must include normal history, malformed input, duplicates, reordering, maximum-size values, and changes of rule or schema version. A passing example is evidence about that environment and dataset, not a universal performance claim. 12

Make a crash exposing a cursor that claims work whose state was not committed a named negative test. The release packet should retain transaction boundaries, durable checkpoints, and reconciliation queries, exact dependency and tool versions, the deterministic command, and its result. For performance work, report warm-up, repetitions, concurrency, percentiles, resource limits, and the point where backpressure begins. For security work, include abuse cases and independent review. A change is ready only when failures leave transactional domain state plus replayable processing progress safe, recovery is rehearsed, and telemetry explains both user-visible outcome and operator action.

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