Implemented a solution for sending local events. Events sent to the local partition are no loger sent over the comm layer. If the configuration has a single node, there will be no serialization and the event is put in the local stream queue directly.
The challenge was to figure out how to make the sender know what its own partition was. For now, I did this in App but it will have to be moved to Server because this should be a server-level initialization. -- -leo
