Re: [Pharo-users] Right repo for TaskIt and features?

2018-04-24 Thread Holger Freyther
> On 24. Apr 2018, at 23:31, Santiago Bragagnolo > wrote: > > > Yes. But with more work than the workers can handle the queue will grow. > Which means the (median/max) latency of the system will monotonically > increase.. to the point of the entire system failing (tasks handled after the

Re: [Pharo-users] Right repo for TaskIt and features?

2018-04-24 Thread Holger Freyther
> On 25. Apr 2018, at 08:42, Andrew Glynn wrote: > > Generally to avoid this I've used the Synapse micro service bus. It also > allows the creation of an unlimited number of queues, allowing higher > priority tasks to "jump the queue". ' Backpressure' is precisely what > message buses avoi

Re: [Pharo-users] Right repo for TaskIt and features?

2018-04-24 Thread Andrew Glynn
Btw I think you meant "thrashing", not "trashing'.   Trashing is what my team leads do when they read my code.  😉. AndrewOn Tue, 2018-04-24 at 15:31 +, Santiago Bragagnolo wrote: > > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 at 16:18 Holger Freyther > wrote: > > > > > > > On 24. Apr 2018, at 20:16, Santiago B

Re: [Pharo-users] Right repo for TaskIt and features?

2018-04-24 Thread Andrew Glynn
Generally to avoid this I've used the Synapse micro service bus.  It also allows the creation of an unlimited number of queues, allowing higher priority tasks to "jump the queue".  ' Backpressure' is precisely what message buses avoid in distributed computing. One of my never-have-time-for projects

Re: [Pharo-users] Right repo for TaskIt and features?

2018-04-24 Thread Andrew Glynn
What about using VertStix for remote execution? Andrew On Tue, 2018-04-24 at 15:31 +, Santiago Bragagnolo wrote: > > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 at 16:18 Holger Freyther > wrote: > > > > > > > On 24. Apr 2018, at 20:16, Santiago Bragagnolo > > o...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >  > > > Hi Holger!  > >

Re: [Pharo-users] Right repo for TaskIt and features?

2018-04-24 Thread Santiago Bragagnolo
On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 at 16:18 Holger Freyther wrote: > > > > On 24. Apr 2018, at 20:16, Santiago Bragagnolo < > santiagobragagn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Holger! > > I respond in bold > > hehe. And in the reply I am back to non rich text. Let me see if I quote > it correctly. > *hahahaha, n

Re: [Pharo-users] Right repo for TaskIt and features?

2018-04-24 Thread Holger Freyther
> On 24. Apr 2018, at 20:16, Santiago Bragagnolo > wrote: > > Hi Holger! > I respond in bold hehe. And in the reply I am back to non rich text. Let me see if I quote it correctly. > > > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 at 12:00 Holger Freyther wrote: > Hey! > > I wondered if somebody thought

Re: [Pharo-users] Right repo for TaskIt and features?

2018-04-24 Thread Santiago Bragagnolo
Hi Holger! I respond in *bold* On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 at 12:00 Holger Freyther wrote: > Hey! > > I look into using Taskit for a new development and wondered about some > features. What is the right upstream repository? *The main repo so far is https://github.com/sbragagnolo/taskit

[Pharo-users] Right repo for TaskIt and features?

2018-04-24 Thread Holger Freyther
Hey! I look into using Taskit for a new development and wondered about some features. What is the right upstream repository? What are the goals to get builds greens? I wondered if somebody thought of remote task execution? What I am missing is handling for overload. E.g. before queuing too many