[IPython-dev] [sage-notebook] Re: Using Google App Engine channels instead of zmq in new IPython
Mon Feb 13 17:08:15 CST 2012
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Jason Grout
> Those are some very nice diagrams!
Indeed, all the credit goes to Min.
> Thanks for the feedback. We already have a websocket<->zmq bridge, right?
> I think now that GAE channels could basically replace the websocket
> portion. I assume that would be much easier? So the basic architecture
> would be:
> browser <-GAE channel-> Sage server on GAE <-GAE channel-> (bridge <-ZMQ->
> IPython kernel)
> where the part in parentheses would be the worker running on a compute
> server, and the shim is the bridge between GAE channels and zmq. Does that
> seem more reasonable? What does the architecture of your websocket bridge
> look like?
That's the part we use tornado for, so indeed if you wanted to go this
route but run on GAE instead, you could replace our tornado-using code
as indicated in your ascii-diagram above. The code that does this is
mostly in the various modules here:
That directory is the only part of IPython that uses tornado, which is
effectively what you're talking about replacing.
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