[erlang-questions] Messaging patterns

[Lee Sylvester]

Hi Samuel,

Thank you for the information.  The load balancing and routing I have sorted.  I guess, I'm going to have to use a single node for registering where rooms exist for all nodes.  I was hoping not to go that route.  I've been studying Riak, but this isn't a pattern Riak requires.

Kindest regards,
Lee




On 22 Mar 2013, at 19:56, S X <erlangprogram@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hi Lee,
> 
> Not sure I understood your problem correct or not. Just try to throw some ideas.
> 
> What you want to do is similar to the massive online gaming with virtual play rooms. And player wants to get into one player room dynamically decided by the server.
> 
> Basically, you want to do the following things:
> - Service Routing: meaning routing the user to the proper node (having service with least load?)
> - Node information sharing/communicating
> - Load balancing algorithm
> 
> As my understanding, RIAK (the distributed database in erlang) has capabilities to do more than the above. Maybe you can refer to it as a reference to get some ideas.
> 
> 
> Samuel
> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Lee Sylvester <lee.sylvester@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> I'm writing a messaging service where connected users are placed in a room.  Users can then message other users in this same room.  This is the easy part :-)
> 
> I now want to make this service distributed.  Users will be added to rooms in a service that is most "available", so it must be at the nearest datacentre with the least load.  Therefore, I need to find a pattern that allows users to communicate across services.  Essentially, users should be able to message anyone in there room regardless of what service manages their connection.  However, if I have 200 services, but only two people in a room, I'd like to avoid those other 198 services having to deal with the messages.
> 
> Question is, then, does anyone know of a pattern or best practice that supports this paradigm?
> 
> Thanks loads in advance.
> 
> Lee
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