Right! -------- Original Message -------- From:Leon Grapenthin <grapenthinl...@gmail.com> Sent:Mon, 19 Sep 2016 20:19:55 +0300 To:Clojure <clojure@googlegroups.com> Subject:Re: core.async top use cases
>It is not just convenience. For example agents don't provide functionality >like buffering, backpressure and select aka alts. If you send an action to an >agent you don't get to know when it's done or to choose what to do if it is >currently busy. > >On Monday, September 19, 2016 at 11:49:13 AM UTC+2, Matan Safriel wrote: > >Thanks, and I put the blog post on my reading list. > >Although I can't avoid thinking that we already have asynchronous idioms in >the core language itself, like agents. I think the crux for server-side is >more about the convenient piping, rather than the mere asynchronism itself, >but I might be wrong in any of this. > > >On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Mond Ray <mondr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Pushing asynchrony further into the stack is useful for reliability and fault >tolerance. We can also use it as a basis for Complex Event Processing using >time series windows. > > >I wrote up a few examples in my blog if you have the time to check out a >longer explanation with code. > > >I recently wrote a small set of functions to enable HTML5 Server Sent Events >from any Kafka topic which also uses core.async (with an example using Aleph >and Compojure). You might like to check that repo out too. > > >Ray > > >On Sunday, 18 September 2016 08:37:38 UTC+2, Matan Safriel wrote: > >Hi, > > >It's very easy to see how core.async solves callback hell for front-end >development with clojurescript. > >In what use cases would you use it for server-side? we already have >non-blocking IO from Java, and we have clojure agents. So what's a bunch of >salient use cases? > >Are there prominent clojure http server implementations which rely on it for >transcending the threaded web service paradigm? > > >Thanks, > >Matan > > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups "Clojure" group. >To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com >Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your >first post. >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >clojure+u...@googlegroups.com >For more options, visit this group at >http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >--- >You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google >Groups "Clojure" group. >To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >https://groups.google.com/d/topic/clojure/peJXvE0nBZs/unsubscribe. >To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >clojure+u...@googlegroups.com. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups "Clojure" group. >To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com >Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your >first post. >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >For more options, visit this group at >http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >--- >You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google >Groups "Clojure" group. >To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >https://groups.google.com/d/topic/clojure/peJXvE0nBZs/unsubscribe. >To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
