[zeromq-dev] data collector pattern

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Stephen Hemminger
<shemminger at vyatta.com> wrote:

> The guide is full of wonderful and useful cases, but there is one that appears
> to be missing. For some applications there are lots of clients generating and one collector.
> The clients typically generate data like statistics or information (like a temperature sensor)
> that occurs periodically.  Each message from the client is idempotent and supersedes
> the last one, therefore it is acceptable for the collector to miss one. This is sort of
> the inverse of PUB-SUB.

You can simply use PUB-SUB, where the collector is a SUB, the clients
are PUB, the collector binds and the clients connect. The advantage is
that you can multiple collectors for redundancy.

-Pieter