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Re: Queue Service

 

Pete,

Queues are essential for highly concurrent use cases, and batch processing. It's the core of what you need to build a cloud-specific application. Reference:

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/proj/seda/

Adrian

On Feb 14, 2011, at 10:20 AM, Pete Zaitcev wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:51:42 -0800
> Eric Day <eday@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> [] A queue service can
>> not only provide a useful public cloud service, but can also provide
>> one of the building blocks for other services.
> 
>> I'm looking forward to your feedback. Thanks!
> 
> Do you have a specific application and/or testbed in mind? Can you give
> us any specifics?
> 
> The question of pub/sub and queues seem to be floating around but I never
> can find a good use case to study. Proponents of queueing architectures
> keep saying how wonderful they are, but I do not see what's so good
> about them.
> 
> -- Pete
> 
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