Make them failover ciclycally, only one active at a time.

Andre

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:16 PM, B. Estrade <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 2:50:28 PM UTC-5, chadkouse wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure about like 90% of what you said but we present our beanstalkd
>> pool to our application as a single point of entry maintained by a set of
>> haproxy's. works pretty well and is simple enough.
>>
>
> Thanks, I will look at haproxy.
>
> Cheers,
> Brett
>
>>
>> --
>> Chad Kouse
>>
>> On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 at 12:43 PM, B. Estrade wrote:
>>
>> I am working on a project that needs a job queue, and beanstalkd is
>> looking very attractive. The thing is that we really want to make the
>> application very highly available, and the fact that federation of
>> beanstalkd is left to the client (like memcached) has lead me to consider
>> the following approach.  I'd like to create a resource manager that
>> maintains a pool of daemons, but presents to the client application the view
>> as a single and highly available process that is managing these requests.
>>
>> I would like to basically create a resource manager that provides failover
>> and redundancy via a pool of distributed beanstalkd instances.  The
>> application, however, will view things logically as a single logical
>> instance of the queue.  It looks like that the way to go would be to manage
>> the pool of beanstalkd instances using Paxos.
>>
>> My primary question after reading the documentation is, how would one use
>> the existing features (as atomic primitives, so to speak) of beanstalkd to
>> create a resource manager that provides the isolation guarantees and atomic
>> changes to the state of a queue?  As far as I can tell, this would be
>> possible if a) there was a way to provide a temporary change to the queue
>> (e.g., a job or set of jobs) and b) a way to make the temporary changes
>> visible in an atomic way ( I suppose a daemon would also need to know if
>> it's OK to make the commit, too).  I don't think that these needs are unique
>> the to distributed commit protocol since this would be required by each
>> daemon individually to facilitate the protocol itself.  Leader elect, I
>> think, can be handled outside of the daemon.
>>
>> I would like to provide strong consistency across all beanstalkd instances
>> in the pool; I am not interested, really, in simply master/slave replication
>> (which I suppose one could facilitate via the bin log of a master). I am
>> interested in seeing if it is possible to implement a Paxos like protocol
>> among all daemons in the pool using beanstalkd's current capabilities.  Weak
>> or eventual consistency is also an option, but I'd like to see how possible
>> the ideal is at the onset.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Brett
>>
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