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[Michael Barton <mike-launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Eric Day <eday@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> You make a good point, I apologize for not documenting some of the
> ideas sooner. The architecture I had in mind borrows from other
> queue systems I've worker on, along with feedback I've gotten from
> various conversations while getting things started. For the hashing,
> we could possibly reuse the distribution ring algorithm swift uses for
> selecting server sets from accounts. I've added some sample deployment
> descriptions to the wiki page:
>
> http://wiki.openstack.org/QueueService#Deployment_Configurations


That's cool, thanks for humoring me on that a bit.  I was worried that
I hadn't seen anything suggesting this queue could meet some of our
expected needs.  FWIW, I think the basic architecture is probably
good.  It'll be interesting to see how different queue features can
interact with CAP theorem.

-- Mike
(re-sent to list, forgot to "reply all")