PítCast PRO — Feed Worker Service
About PítCast PRO’s Main Newsfeed Feed Aggregation Service
The PítCast PRO Feed Worker Service (FWS) is a distributed data-ingestion component designed to operate as an autonomous backend processing unit within the PítCast ecosystem. Its primary function is the continuous acquisition, normalization, and pre-processing of news-related content from a heterogeneous set of external sources.
FWS instances run as independent workers, each responsible for a defined slice of the feed domain. They integrate with upstream endpoints using protocol-aware connectors (HTTP/REST, RSS/ATOM, JSON streaming interfaces, and event-driven hooks). Incoming payloads are validated, deduplicated, and enriched with metadata such as timestamps, source descriptors, linguistic markers, and categorization hints.
The service includes a lightweight rules engine enabling dynamic filtering and prioritization, ensuring that only relevant items propagate into the internal message bus. It supports load-balanced scaling, allowing the cluster to dynamically allocate workers according to traffic density and update frequency of monitored sources.
Processed items are published into the central feed pipeline, where downstream modules—indexers, analytics services, and user-facing APIs—consume the optimized data. The result is a resilient, high-throughput subsystem that ensures PítCast PRO consistently maintains a fresh, structured, and high-quality news dataset.