[Zope3-dev] Re: principal events for the event hub

Steve Alexander steve@cat-box.net
Tue, 22 Apr 2003 14:08:35 +0200


Chris Withers wrote:
> Do we really want this many messages floating around Zope 3?
> 
> I know we're aiming to be slow^w^w^w^wnot aiming to be optimised, but 
> how will we ever make a system with myriads of events flowing around 
> scale properly?

How do you expect a system to scale properly if it doesn't use some form 
of abstraction and decoupling?


Sending events should be cheap. This may or may not be the case now. 
However, there are plenty of places that this can be optimised when we 
need to do that.

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Steve Alexander