Feature request (anycast)
hissssst opened this issue · comments
I found myself implementing this feature many times and I think that this feature would be useful to be shipped with syn.
By anycast I mean sending message to one process of the group which is choosen with some algorithm.
Possible algorithms:
- Random member of group
- Round robin
- Random process on the same node
I don't think that in would be useful, but anycall would make sense too
I'm currently working on v3 so I'm reviewing all open issues.
I think that choosing a process randomly in a group to send a message is an application-specific matter, as the type of algorithm might have a relation with the reason one is choosing a process from a group.
It looks to me this can be left to the developer, by retrieving the processes (and eventually, getting only the local ones) and selecting one as they please.
Is there a specific and common use case that you'd like to share to see whether this can become part of the core?
Thank you for your suggestion.
Closing.