[zeromq-dev] nomenclature

[Pieter Hintjens]

FWIW I have come to believe that trying to design or even understand
the overall flows of data is a mistake, at least when you want to
scale.

What does scale is to speak of protocols and implementations. I know
this isn't a happy answer yet it's a proven one (RFCs, Internet).


On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 6:28 PM, Arnaud Loonstra <arnaud at sphaero.org> wrote:
> We like to relate to musical terms. We sometimes talk about orchestra or
> composition.
>
> Rg,
>
> Arnaud
>
> On 2016-08-24 18:17, Andrew Hume wrote:
>>
>> thanks for the input.
>>
>> protocols are the wrong sort of thing, i think. that would be like
>> saying another
>> way to talk about the national highway system is to talk about the
>> driving rules.
>> (regardless of how important those rules, and protocols, in general,
>> are.)
>>
>> after a quick read of teh FMC, the best term might be “compositional
>> structure”,
>> but thats uglier than communications web (i think).
>>
>>> On Aug 24, 2016, at 9:04 AM, Andriy Drozdyuk <drozzy at gmail.com [3]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Protocols?
>>>
>>> The FMC folks use "channels" to describe this kind of stuff:
>>> http://www.fmc-modeling.org [4]
>>>
>>> Sounds like you might benefit from a "system map":
>>> http://www.fmc-modeling.org/fmcbook [5]
>>>
>>> On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 at 11:31 Andrew Hume <andrew at humeweb.com [6]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> in discussions within my group, we often refer to the complete
>>>> data flows between the various
>>>> parts of a distributed application as a “communication web”.
>>>> this includes a bunch of different
>>>> stuff, including (but not limited to) normal zeromq links,
>>>> pub-sub connections, broker-mediated
>>>> links, job queues.
>>>>
>>>> technically, this is more like a directed graph of data flow.
>>>>
>>>> the term “communication web” is clumsy at best. are there
>>>> better terms we could use? how do people on
>>>> this list describe the data flow parts of their architectures?
>>>>
>>>> andrew
>>>>
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