It depends on your application of course, but an event bus is brittle
by-design,
that's why I was mentioning that a more structured/domain-specific
approach with
zeromq or similar would be an easier sell as far as scaling goes, it's
easy to pop
in new nodes for a specific task vs trying to scale out a behemoth
event bus.

On Mar 8, 2:18 am, Micheil Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> @TJ Redis is great, until a point, which is: do you need redundancy; Making
> pub/sub scale and
> be resilient to failures is quite a tricky problem. For instance, LinkedIn
> uses Apache Kafka.
>
> An anecdote: I know a company that used redis for the backbone of their
> services APIs and network, it worked great, until that one day when redis
> crashed; granted, that had never happened before then, but when redis did
> crash, it meant that all services started buffering in memory, then those
> services died, redis restarted, got utterly overloaded again, and died
> again, then more services died. It basically took an entire network reset
> to fix it.
>
> Sure, there were hot-slaves, but in a pub/sub type environment, those don't
> really help you that much.
>
> I think there's other better solutions, and I totally disagree with the
> "just use redis" approach.
>
> – Micheil
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thursday, March 7, 2013 4:29:46 AM UTC, tjholowaychuk wrote:
>
> > IMO event buses are usually not a great solution, but if that's all you
> > need I would just use redis pubsub,
> > otherwise a more structured approach with axon/zmq works well
>
> > On Wednesday, 6 March 2013 12:35:38 UTC-8, Tim Dickinson wrote:
>
> >> I'm looking for a pure node event bus. Something like hook.io but that
> >> is kept up to date.
>
> >> I have been thinking of building my own module using
> >>https://github.com/visionmedia/axonbut if something is already out
> >> there then why not use it.
>
> >> What I'm doing is have a few processes that are Independence of each
> >> other. There can be a master process or peer2peer type setup. Each process
> >> and listen/subscribe to events as other process emit/publish events. I like
> >> the ruby nats system but I'm looking for something that is written in node.
> >> I know there is a client for node for nats but i don't want to have to run
> >> a ruby process if i don't have to.
>
> >> I really like hook.io but it uses a lot of memory and is kind slow. if I
> >> have more then a few processes hook.io gets really slow.

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