Re: Pattern for One-Entry-Multiple-Workers Problem

> Just so I can nail this down in my head, do you view the "contents +
> availability event" approach inelegant too? Or is your elegants issue
> only with using contents w/o the availability event?

If it could be assured, that no availability event would get lost, the
most elegant way would indeed be to only have to react on such events.
Using contents() to me is a compromise with regard to completeness,
i.e., for checking upon missed events.

> What rate are the your "CfPs" being generated at? Are they being
> generated by one entity or many? How much time does it take respond to a
> CfP? How many responses do you expect to get from a single CfP?

Well, the CfP scenario only was a simplified example of the real
application/framework we build. I cannot give an idea about incoming
events, as this depends on the usage of the application/framework.

Let's replace the term CfP with "Request on Domain X" (RoD/X). In
general, there would be one entity per user session creating new RoDs
with different X. Depending on the number of workers installed (which
again is flexible and depends on the usage of the application) each
RoD/X would be looked into and eventually processed by an arbitrary
number of workers. The processing itself could also result in posting a
new RoD/Y (usually with Y != X), which gets analogously processed, i.e.,
the number of results and the time for responding to a RoD/X may
exponentially grow with the number of workers.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Stefan

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