On 16 November 2013 21:45, Cedric Greevey <cgree...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Web browsers don't "pick a random sleep time before trying again", though; > they display a 500 error page and the user promptly clicks "reload" while > making an exasperated sigh. > > If the client is something other than a web browser, then we're no longer > talking about the web, but some other thing, like SMTP or whatever. And > then we're outside the scope of my earlier remark, which specifically > mentioned the web. Not to mention outside the scope of the OP's product, > which was clearly referred to as a "Ring middleware" and not some other > sort of server component for some other kind of server. > It sounds like you've never heard of web services before. Web servers are often used to serve information to clients other than web browsers. HTTP is not a perfect protocol, but it's a well-supported one, and is one of the most common ways for machines to communicate across the internet. It's also used a lot in internal networks. I can see overload-middleware being useful in an internal network, where clients are submitting jobs to a central server. The clients can be programmed to wait a random length of time before retrying if the server is overloaded. I suspect that a better solution might be to use a queue, but it really depends on the requirements of the system being developed. - James -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
