On 19 March 2012 18:35, Casey Ransberger <[email protected]> wrote:

> What motivates? Are we trying to eliminate the overhead of ST-style
> message passing? Is publish/subscribe easier to understand? Does it lead to
> simpler artifacts? Looser coupling? Does it simplify matters of concurrency?
>

One thing to consider is that once you move away from two-party
communication relationships toward N-party relationships, you find yourself
in a world where multiple parties are having a *conversation* about some
topic, usually to accomplish some shared goal. With point-to-point
messaging, the conversation is pretty limited, but with pub/sub you can get
some interesting synergies by having multiple participants chipping in
whenever they have something to say that drives the conversation as a whole
forward.

Tony
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Tony Garnock-Jones
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