[zeromq-dev] Talk about ZeroMQ

[andrea crotti]

2012/8/24 Justin Cook <jhcook at gmail.com>:
> On Thursday, 23 August 2012 at 20:22, Andrea Crotti wrote:
>
> The whole idea behind ZMQ is doing sockets the way the project would like to think sockets "should" have been done. Why reinvent the wheel when there are messaging patterns that are used over and over, and if correctly abstracted, can be mixed and matched to offer considerable solutions.
>
> Instead of getting down to threading or any more advanced topics
> versus 101, you should take an example of "reinventing the wheel" and
> show how easy it is to do this with the ZMQ library and
> Python. Remember, you only have 30 minutes. Start off by showing
> classic patterns that ZMQ supports, what it would take to write it
> yourself, what bugs everyone else who has done so has not considered,
> and then the nifty ZMQ solution that takes minutes.


Thanks that's a good idea.  I could show the classic
ventilator-workers-sink program, and how plugging in workers at run-time
is still perfectly fine..  If there is time and it's easy enough adding
a simple dynamic web page generation that is also subscribed to the
results, to see how easy is to extend the topology and get nice results.

>
> Again, walk before you run. You have 30 minutes. If you want to use
> this in an over all example, sure. But, you would have to take a
> complete example and use each portion throughout the entire 30 minutes
> and finish by saying, "in 30 minutes you have created a scalable
> reporting system that efficiently collects data from 1000s of
> hosts. Thank you."
>

Well no I was not clear, I didn't want to show how to implement such a
thing for the talk, just use it to show in real-time what is happening.
It would be very useful in general I think as a project, and very good
to explain to other people that don't know much about it what is going
on..