[rabbitmq-discuss] spec scope question

Wed Jan 7 17:09:37 GMT 2009

I think that happy solution here is one where:

* Core functions - send a message - are zero config.
* Admin users have management rights.

This requires a good ACL solution.

alexis

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Martin Sustrik <sustrik at imatix.com> wrote:
> Tim,
>
> There's no way to do such thing.
>
> When AMQP was designed one of the principles was "zero config" i.e. that
> it should be possible to run AMQP broker with no configuration and that
> applications should start running immediately.
>
> This means that applications have to define the data flows themselves
> (using exchange/queue/bind semantics).
>
> My feeling is that this design decision was rather unfortunate - exactly
> for the reason you've mentioned: The definition of global data flow is
> scattered across all the application code in the enterprise and thus
> virtually impossible to collect, inspect, reason about, modify etc.
>
> Btw, I would suggest asking questions related to AMQP as a specification
> on amqp-dev mailing list. You'll get larger audience that way :)
>
> Martin
>
> Tim Coote wrote:
>> Does the scope of AMQP cover the management of the environment. Here's
>> a typical usecase:
>>
>> Context: my standards use an enterprise pubsub bus, based on AMQP so
>> that producers and consumers can be decoupled in my app dev process. I
>> have 50k servers with 1k application types in my estate. I cannot
>> trust my inventory and configuration for my business applications and
>> I have poor quality information on dependencies/composition between/of
>> applications
>>
>> - I want to retire application X
>> - How do I know what are the consumers of Application X's  published
>> data so that I can re-source the data for the dependent systems, if
>> there are any.
>>
>> I know that this is a real problem for the operations groups and
>> applications owners in large enterprises.  It doesn't get better with
>> time ;-)
>>
>> If the spec doesn't define how I'd find all consumers of data of a
>> given type, then I'm going to have to build that functionality as part
>> of my deployment. (actually, probably later, when I realise how much
>> money I'm wasting on data centres)
>>
>> I couldn't find anything relevant in 10.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>>
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