Roger Eller wrote:
> Have you considered running a faceless Desktop app as a service,
> having it watch for a socket message...
Pierre Sahores and I have experimented with a wide range of socket
servers*, with some very promising results.
That said, our independent tests seem to arrive at the same conclusion:
The execution speed of LC does compare favorably with other scripting
languages, but best when used behind a load balancer.
Even though HTTP can be a fairly sparse protocol, without much more
required overhead than you'd need for just about any general-purpose
socket comms, coupling that directly with the processing of each request
within a single engine instance creates bottlenecks.
So I like to think of socket servers in LC as very capable solutions for
"Nanoservices": similar to microservices in scope, but suitable for
workgroups and other relatively low-traffic environments.
Having multiple instances as workers behind a server front-end like
NginX can be quite good, but doing both roles - socket I/O and
processing - is a bit much to put on a single-threaded scripting engine
like LC, at least in production environments set up for (hopefully)
scaling public access.
That said, for workgroups there's much that can be done quite
wonderfully with LC taking on the role of an HTTP daemon.
And as a pool of workers behind something like NginX it can stand up
well against many alternatives scripting options, even in production
environments.
* Sampling of related links from the archives:
<http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2016-February/223352.html>
<http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2016-February/223363.html>
<http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2016-March/225068.html>
<http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2013-May/188352.html>
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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