Archive for August, 2010
Cooking up Dishes
by Jonathan C. on Aug.08, 2010, under Aspect, Web programming
I’ve just begun building the messaging model for Aspect, and I’m developing it as a separate, reusable Rack-based framework. It’s called Dishes, which is an extraordinarily lame pun derived from “asynchronous” sounding like it has a “sink” in it. So far things are looking good, but there’s a lot of work still ahead!
As it happens, I read up a little on BOSH, and it uses exactly the same two-connection model I described in my last post. It’s interesting reading and I’m sure to take a lot of inspiration from it. I don’t really want to adopt BOSH in its entirety because I think it’s way more than I need; Dishes is probably going to be fairly small.
Something cool I’m trying in Dishes is putting each request in its own Fiber. Since Aspect is going to be extremely I/O bound, it makes sense to re-invert the evented model using fibers to make handlers feel more synchronous. That will make it easier to use Dishes.
Anyways, that’s enough late-night rambling for tonight. When I have a simple working Dishes example, I’ll post again and explain how everything works. Meanwhile, you can always take a look at the current code. I even have a basic goal application to aim for.
Comments always welcome!
~Jonathan
