Hello, in the last days i have been thinking alot about some kind of architecture for an upcoming project, but my limited experience in that field makes it really hard to decide on possible solutions, so i thought that id ask the symfony community for help :)
The basic setup is this: On the one side there is a web portal written in symfony 1.2 using doctrine and all the bells and whistles, standard web stuff as you know it. We will eventually have several HTTP and DB Servers and a load balancer etc, so it will be a scalable solution. On the backend side there will be a python daemon/programm that receives large amounts of data over XMPP/Jabber. I choose python here because php is just not made for programs that run infinitly, even if it would be possible it doesnt feel right for me. Anyhow, i now need a solution to bridge both sides together, to basically alter data in the web portals database. The python XMPP client will recieve messages that alter user data in the portal, so i would need a bidirectional way to send/recieve data to the portal server. This could be easily done via HTTP and RPC calls, but i guess that would be rather slow if there are 100+ messages coming in per minute. Another method could be sending the object JSON encoded ober XMPP, but then id still need a php XMPP client that periodically polls the XMPP server, fetches new messages and applies the changes to the database. I could aswell just let the python daemon write to the DB directly, but that way i couldnt use my symfony Models and validation algorithms... At one point when using symfony i will always end up polling some service with php to process the changes, but maybe using HTTP for that isnt too bad since it scales pretty good. I could cache alot of data on the python client and send big JSON chunks over HTTP to the portal to process it, maybe thats a good solution ? i really dont know, any tips apreciated. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
