[zeromq-dev] design for peer to peer messaging

[Michael Fung]

Hi Pieter, many thanks for your advice!

Rgds,
Michael


On 3/9/2013 7:49 PM, Pieter Hintjens wrote:
> Michael,
>
> In general it's not useful to design a 0MQ architecture until you've
> fully internalized how the different patterns work.
>
> My advice is to make a *minimal* working design with one of each
> piece, add more one piece at a time, and work out the issues like
> that. When you've done this a few times it'll be obvious.
>
> -Pieter
>
> On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Michael Fung <mike at 3open.org> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>> I would like to build a service for electronics hobbyists to control
>> their devices from anywhere. The targeted devices are primitive and
>> probably cannot speak 0MQ. This project will host in a single VM, but I
>> want to use 0MQ just in case I need to scale it up.
>>
>> I have drawn a diagram to show my draft plan at:
>> http://neo.minidns.net/usbhd/tmp/mcu-dia1.png
>>
>> In the beginning(single VM) it will only have one "Core" , one "MCU
>> Frontend" and one "Web Frontend". The "Core" is responsible to route
>> messages from User to MCU and vice versa. Both the User and MCU can
>> initiate to send a message, and there is no need to guarantee a response.
>>
>> In case I need to scale up, I can just many Core, Web Frontend or MCU
>> Frontend as needed, with minimal configuration change.
>>
>> Please let me know if there is significant flaw in my plan or a simpler
>> way to do it.
>>
>>
>> Thanks and Regards,
>> Michael Fung
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