Huh? I didn't write that. George did. On Oct 28, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Caitlin Bestler wrote:
> Jorge Williams wrote: > >> Push notifications don't make your core system any more complex. You push >> the change to a message queue and rely on another system to do the work. > > That is only true if the messaging system and the core system are largely > independent, which could have some implications that would probably be fine > for > most human users but could be quite problematic for applications. > > Can the push notification system block the core system? If not the push > notifications ultimately become unreliable. A human who is not notified that > a given update once in 10,000 times is probably just going to shrug it off. > But an application that needs to know it is looking at the most recent version > of a document before it modifies it is ultimately going to have to rely on > polling, or have the notification be built into the core system complete with > throttling of updates when absolutely necessary to ensure that notifications > are sent. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
