[zeromq-dev] Reundance/Failover Capabilites?

Evan Klitzke evan at eklitzke.org
Wed Oct 15 07:32:16 CEST 2008


On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 09:04:59AM +0200, Martin Sustrik wrote:
> Ok, I think you've misunderstood what zmq_server is actually doing.  
> Although it looks like standard messaging broker found in other  
> messaging products, it is actually only a directory service that keeps  
> info about machines, IP addresses and ports of running 0MQ client  
> applications. Messages on the other hand are passed directly from one  
> app to another, circumventing the broker. It's called broker-less  
> architecture. So, in your specific scenario clients would send log  
> messages directly to the sys-log service.

Thanks, this clears up a lot!

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Evan Klitzke <evan at eklitzke.org> :wq



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