Tell him that we will all look over your code so he gets immediate free consulting.
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:39 PM, David Rosenstrauch <dar...@darose.net>wrote: > I'll run it by my boss next week. > > DR > > > On 08/06/2010 07:30 PM, Mahadev Konar wrote: > >> Hi David, >> I think it would be really useful. It would be very helpful for someone >> looking for geenrating unique tokens/generations ids ( I can think of >> plenty >> of applications for this). >> >> Please do consider contributing it back to the community! >> >> Thanks >> mahadev >> >> >> On 8/6/10 7:10 AM, "David Rosenstrauch"<dar...@darose.net> wrote: >> >> Perhaps. I'd have to ask my boss for permission to release the code. >>> >>> Is this something that would be interesting/useful to other people? If >>> so, I can ask about it. >>> >>> DR >>> >>> On 08/05/2010 11:02 PM, Jonathan Holloway wrote: >>> >>>> Hi David, >>>> >>>> We did discuss potentially doing this as well. It would be nice to get >>>> some >>>> recipes for Zookeeper done for this area, if people think it's useful. >>>> Were >>>> you thinking of submitting this back as a recipe, if not then I could >>>> potentially work on such a recipe instead. >>>> >>>> Many thanks, >>>> Jon. >>>> >>>> >>>> I just ran into this exact situation, and handled it like so: >>>>> >>>>> I wrote a library that uses the option (b) you described above. Only >>>>> instead of requesting a single sequence number, you request a block of >>>>> them >>>>> at a time from Zookeeper, and then locally use them up one by one from >>>>> the >>>>> block you retrieved. Retrieving by block (e.g., by blocks of 10000 at >>>>> a >>>>> time) eliminates the contention issue. >>>>> >>>>> Then, if you're finished assigning ID's from that block, but still have >>>>> a >>>>> bunch of ID's left in the block, the library has another function to >>>>> "push >>>>> back" the unused ID's. They'll then get pulled again in the next block >>>>> retrieval. >>>>> >>>>> We don't actually have this code running in production yet, so I can't >>>>> vouch for how well it works. But the design was reviewed and given the >>>>> thumbs up by the core developers on the team, and the implementation >>>>> passes >>>>> all my unit tests. >>>>> >>>>> HTH. Feel free to email back with specific questions if you'd like >>>>> more >>>>> details. >>>>> >>>>> DR >>>>> >>>>
