And.. of course.. because I love to watch fire shoot from peoples
eyes.. there's always IMAP :)

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Shane Spencer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yup... it's a ZeroMQ list but I'm gonna deviate a bit:
>
> Not sure how helpful fhis will be.. but I do a lot of this sort of
> work using MongoDB and Redis.  Have workers nibble away at a queue (in
> variable batch sizes).
>
> Here's an article I wrote about it a while back:
>
>   
> https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1CTSka9dlZLi8JYu3IY8-iuKpddLwQe9FI55JwJQUjO4
>
> And of course check out Blocking POP/PUSH operations with Redis.  You
> can put expirable data in a giant queue and let it get nibbled away
> and modified.
>
> - Shane
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Sean Donovan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Any suggestions for implementing the following in ZMQ?
>>
>> Imagine a single Q containing millions of entries, which is constantly being
>> added to.  This Q would be fully persistent, probably not managed by ZMQ,
>> and run in it's own process.
>>
>> We would like N workers.  Those workers need to start/stop ad-hoc, and
>> reconnect to the Q host process.  Each worker would take a single item from
>> the Q, process, acknowledge completion, then repeat (to request another
>> item).  Processing time for each task is 3ms+ (occasionally minutes).
>>
>> Because of the variance in compute time it is important that the workers
>> don't pre-fetch/cache tasks.  As an optimization, we'll add a heuristic so
>> we can batch short-running tasks together (but, we'd like the control -- a
>> load-balancing algorithm wouldn't know how to route efficiently, unless it
>> could take hints).
>>
>> Need a pattern that would allow us to scale to 100s of workers.
>>
>> MANY THANKS!
>>
>> Sean Donovan
>>
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