Great! Looking forward to seeing those bits! On Tuesday, June 19, 2012 2:26:25 AM UTC-7, Rakesh Pai wrote: > > I am using redis pub/sub to talk between processes, and redis lists as > a queue, so there's some amount of IPC right there. I hope to release > those bits soon. Stream API #ftw! > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:06 AM, dhruvbird <[email protected]> wrote: > > I wonder if anyone has tried to similarly use redis to do IPC between > > different node processes. > > > > > > On Monday, June 18, 2012 2:38:42 PM UTC-7, Rakesh Pai wrote: > >> > >> I put this up on github a couple of days ago: > >> https://github.com/errorception/redis-lock > >> > >> It's an implementation of a locking primitive using redis. It's great > >> for when you want to ensure that you don't run into concurrency issues > >> when using the node event loop heavily, or with multiple instances of > >> node. It doesn't block the event loop at all, yet ensures that your > >> functions execute in order (across processes), to ensure integrity. > >> it's kinda niche, but when you need it you need it badly. I've been > >> using this myself on http://errorception.com kinda heavily, and it > >> seems to do the job very well. I've tried hard to keep the API real > >> simple - just one function call! Depends on Redis, because I wanted > >> the lock to be sitting out of the node process, so that multiple > >> (node) processes can find out about it. > >> > >> Feedback welcome, of course. Let me know what you think. (My first > >> node thing on github! Also, my first github thing! :D ) > >> > >> -- > >> Rakesh Pai > >> Mumbai, India. > >> http://rakeshpai.me/ > >> http://twitter.com/rakesh314 > >> http://www.google.com/profiles/rakeshpai > > > > -- > > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > > Posting guidelines: > > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "nodejs" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > > > -- > Rakesh Pai > Mumbai, India. > http://rakeshpai.me/ > http://twitter.com/rakesh314 > http://www.google.com/profiles/rakeshpai >
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