Hello again, since my initial articles on Sockets and pipelines. I have had quite a bit of interest and I am now pleased to say that these projects have all grown up and now have a proper home on GitHub.
The Sockets and Bockets articles have become Flack and the pipeline articles have become Pipelets. Flack is named so because I always like to use quirky names for libraries and its original name was a bit controversial, hence Flack i.e. I get a lot of flack about my naming :-)
I have been working on consolidating and expanding the demo code to produce some useful libraries rather than just proof of concepts and demo’s. I was contacted pretty early on by Ryan Riley who has been working on Frack, for those of you who dont know Frack is an F# implementation based on Rack:
Rack provides a minimal, modular and adaptable interface for developing
web applications in Ruby. By wrapping HTTP requests and responses in the simplest way possible, it unifies and distills the API for web servers, web frameworks, and software in between (the so-called middleware) into a single method call.
Ryan wanted to see if the SocketAsyncEventArgs pattern could be used in Frack to improve efficiency. So far I have been pushed for time to make a large amount of progress on integrating the two, but things are progressing faster now that the library is on GitHub.
Please check out:
Also check out Ryan’s technical blog: Wizards of Smart
The other thing in the pipeline, pun intended, is a distributed pipeline engine where a pipeline would be exposed via a socket and could be connected to other pipeline systems. The beauty of a system like this is you could compose systems of pipelines to run either on either a single machine or distributed over a network, this would effectively marry together functional composition and distributed systems. Its early days yet but I hope to get together some more details of how this will work in the coming weeks, Im quite excited to get working on it!
As always I appreciate any comments or suggestions.
See you soon.