This is one thing I desperately want to refactor. The Ruby client still contains some things that reflect my earlier, less astute understanding of how a Riak client should behave and doesn't include obvious things like retrying requests (possibly on other nodes), conflict resolution strategies, and mutators.
In the past, I have recommended that users put a lightweight load-balancer (e.g. haproxy, pound) between their application and Riak, and simply have the app connect to the locally-running instance of the LB. I realize this is not a great solution, but it also avoids a little NIH for now. Sean Cribbs <s...@basho.com> Developer Advocate Basho Technologies, Inc. http://basho.com/ On May 27, 2011, at 3:20 PM, Keith Bennett wrote: > Hi, all. If I have several riak servers on a cluster, and want to distribute > load fairly evenly, and am using the Ruby Riak client, what is the best way > to balance load? > > With the HTTP interface, I can randomize the choice of host for a request. > How would I do the same with the ruby client? Would I create a Riak::Client > for each host, and then just randomize the selection of those for a given > call? Do the clients contain any state that would make this a bad idea? Or > is there a better way to do this? > > Thanks, > Keith > > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
