Researched Directus's WebSocket subscription mechanism via context7 and
confirmed it only fires events for writes that go through Directus's
own ItemsService. Direct INSERTs from Processor are invisible to
subscribers. The previous claim in entities/directus.md that Directus
broadcasts Processor's writes was wrong.
New: wiki/concepts/live-channel-architecture.md captures the corrected
design with three options table, chosen-architecture diagram,
authorization flow, failure modes, multi-instance plumbing, scale
considerations, and open questions. Chosen path: Processor exposes its
own WebSocket endpoint for the high-volume telemetry firehose
(authentication via Directus-issued JWT, authorization delegated to
Directus once at subscribe time); Directus's built-in WebSocket covers
business-plane events. Each WebSocket serves the writes its plane
manages — preserves plane-separation and gives the gentlest failure
mode (Directus down only blocks new authorizations).
Updated:
- entities/directus.md — corrected the real-time-delivery section,
added pointer to the new concept page.
- entities/processor.md — added Live broadcast section in
responsibilities and a section explaining the dual-consumer-group
plumbing for multi-instance HA.
- index.md — listed the new concept.
- log.md — synthesis entry for 2026-05-01 documenting the correction.
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