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⚡ Bolt: Parallelize URL validation in warm_up_cache#129

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⚡ Bolt: Parallelize URL validation in warm_up_cache#129
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💡 What: Moved validate_folder_url inside the parallel worker in warm_up_cache.
🎯 Why: Sequential DNS lookups were a bottleneck during startup.
📊 Impact: Reduces startup time significantly (observed 85% reduction in synthetic benchmark with 50ms latency).
🔬 Measurement: tests/repro_performance.py (created during dev) confirmed speedup. Existing tests passed.


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Moves the `validate_folder_url` check from a sequential list comprehension to the concurrent `ThreadPoolExecutor` worker. `validate_folder_url` performs blocking DNS lookups (`socket.getaddrinfo`), which caused a significant bottleneck (e.g., ~1s for 20 URLs with 50ms latency). Parallelization reduces this to ~max(latency) (e.g., ~0.16s).

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Validated with `tests/repro_performance.py` (mocked DNS latency) showing 85% improvement.
Existing tests pass.
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Pull request overview

This PR optimizes startup performance by parallelizing URL validation in the warm_up_cache function. Previously, DNS lookups via validate_folder_url were performed sequentially before parallel fetching, creating a bottleneck. The optimization moves validation inside the worker threads, allowing DNS lookups to happen concurrently.

Changes:

  • Moved URL validation from sequential pre-filtering into parallel worker threads in warm_up_cache
  • Added helper function _validate_and_fetch that performs both validation and fetching in worker threads
  • Updated documentation in .jules/bolt.md to capture this optimization pattern

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main.py Refactored warm_up_cache to parallelize DNS lookups by moving validation inside worker threads
.jules/bolt.md Added documentation entry about parallelizing DNS validation to avoid I/O bottlenecks

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Comment on lines 477 to 479
total = len(urls_to_fetch)
if not USE_COLORS:
log.info(f"Warming up cache for {total} URLs...")
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The progress counter now includes URLs that fail validation, which may be misleading. In the previous implementation, total only counted URLs that passed validation. Now it counts all non-cached URLs, including those that will fail validation and never be fetched. Consider updating the progress messages to clarify this, or decrement the total for URLs that fail validation.

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Comment on lines +483 to +485
def _validate_and_fetch(url: str) -> None:
if validate_folder_url(url):
_gh_get(url)
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The new parallel validation logic in _validate_and_fetch lacks test coverage. Since the repository has comprehensive automated testing for similar functions (e.g., push_rules, get_all_existing_rules, check_api_access), consider adding tests that verify: (1) URLs that fail validation are not cached, (2) URLs that pass validation are properly cached via _gh_get, and (3) the parallel execution completes successfully with both valid and invalid URLs.

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@abhimehro abhimehro merged commit 6c64312 into main Jan 27, 2026
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@abhimehro abhimehro deleted the bolt-parallel-dns-validation-6616409735450417751 branch January 27, 2026 13:47
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