You can employ a work-queue in such a way that you don't close the original HTTP request. The HTTP server just hangs onto the connection until a reply is returned from the worker. Use something like ZeroMQ, or Axon to wire everything together. For any application that will undergo scaling, this is a very clean and logical place to separate responsibility.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Tomasz Janczuk <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with this argument for long lasting CPU-bound operations (e.g. > weather prediction). How about CPU-bound operations that can be > reasonably completed within the lifetime of the original HTTP request? > It certainly saves a lot of orchestration to have another HTTP request > retrieve the results at a later time via short or long polling. > > On Feb 27, 1:51 pm, Jacob Groundwater <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 2. Running CPU-bound workloads for node.js applications in-process > > > (without blocking the node.js event loop): > > >http://tomasz.janczuk.org/2013/02/cpu-bound-workers-for-nodejs.html > > > > Even in an application that supported threading, I would be unlikely to > run > > CPU-bound operations in the same process as my HTTP server. Use a worker > > queue. > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
