October 2016
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
6h 39m
English
Currently, the inventory service works in a single thread, and with a blocking socket. This means that it can handle only one request at a time; if a new request is received while other requests are being processed, the client will have to wait until all previous requests have finished processing. Obviously, this does not scale very well.
In order to implement a server that can handle multiple requests in parallel, you can employ ZeroMQ's ROUTER/DEALER pattern. A ROUTER is a special kind of ZeroMQ socket that behaves very much like a regular REP socket, with the only difference being that multiple REQ sockets can connect to in parallel. Likewise, a DEALER socket is another kind of socket that is similar ...
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