Pete, Queues are essential for highly concurrent use cases, and batch processing. It's the core of what you need to build a cloud-specific application. Reference:
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/proj/seda/ Adrian On Feb 14, 2011, at 10:20 AM, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:51:42 -0800 > Eric Day <e...@oddments.org> wrote: > >> [] A queue service can >> not only provide a useful public cloud service, but can also provide >> one of the building blocks for other services. > >> I'm looking forward to your feedback. Thanks! > > Do you have a specific application and/or testbed in mind? Can you give > us any specifics? > > The question of pub/sub and queues seem to be floating around but I never > can find a good use case to study. Proponents of queueing architectures > keep saying how wonderful they are, but I do not see what's so good > about them. > > -- Pete > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
