Dave Smith wrote: > For those of you who are writing distributed software that does a lot of > network communication between lots of processes on different hosts > (traditional distributed system), I have a question for you: > > What software are you using to move data and events between the > components of your software? > > Curious to see your answers, and yes, this question is pretty vague on > purpose. :)
A few years ago, I used Twisted Python to build the networking components of a basic distributed system (a few dozen nodes). I wasn't aware of JSON at the time, so I put pickles on the wire. Twisted handled network failures amazingly well. We had machines going up and down all the time due to a bad choice of server hardware, but the software kept humming along. It was fun to watch. :-) Shane /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
