Is it too late to pick a middle course: using memcached binary protocol with commands for queues, but implemented as an independent project?
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:02 PM, dormando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's always been a binary-ish protocol. Brian and a few others are writing > a C implementation the client/server. > > Initially I was weakly expecting to add gearman's commands to the binary > protocol and having it exist as a storage engine for memcached, but I > concede to brian's intent to keep it a separate project :) > > -Dormando > > On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Aaron Stone wrote: > >> >> I didn't realize that gearman is a binary protocol -- are you just now >> defining one? >> >> Aaron >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Brian Aker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > Hi! >> > >> > Just something else to throw into the equation: >> > http://gearmanproject.org/doku.php?id=protocol >> > >> > This is the protocol as outlined by Gearman. A few of us are reworking it >> > at >> > the moment, but keeping backwards compatibility with the current version. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > -Brian >> > >> > On Nov 8, 2008, at 12:38 PM, Aaron Stone wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> Heh, nice blog post :-) >> >> >> >> I agree that the queues that are out there and using hacked up >> >> memcache protocols are doing us a great disservice -- I think if we >> >> build a smart way to do a message queue into a binary protocol >> >> extension, we can drive minds in the right direction, and provide >> >> ourselves with something useful in the process. >> >> >> >> Also, it would help us to slow down the rate of splinter projects. >> >> Pluggable storage engines and message queues are I think the only >> >> areas where the memcached-alikes play. >> >> >> >> Aaron >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Dustin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> On Nov 6, 12:48 pm, "Aaron Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >> >>>> Have a mailing list link? It'd be good to continue with where you left >> >>>> off / review what you were thinking at the time. >> >>> >> >>> I wrote about it on my embarrassingly tongue-in-cheek titled blog: >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> http://www.rockstarprogrammer.org/post/2008/oct/04/what-matters-asynchronous-job-queue/ >> > >> > -- >> > _______________________________________________________ >> > Brian "Krow" Aker, brian at tangent.org >> > Seattle, Washington >> > http://krow.net/ <-- Me >> > http://tangent.org/ <-- Software >> > _______________________________________________________ >> > You can't grep a dead tree. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >
