[rabbitmq-discuss] Newbee consulting question

Wed Apr 10 11:44:41 BST 2013

On Apr 10, 2013, at 10:06 AM, Emile Joubert <emile at rabbitmq.com> wrote:

>> we want the architecture to be "pull" rather than "push" in terms of
>> workers 'asking' the workflow manager to get new tasks when they are
>> free, rather than task manager pushing tasks to workers blindly.
> 
> Workers can retrieve messages from a queue synchronously using the
> basic.get method.

Why do you think you need to use pull instead of push?
Are you really sure you want smart dispatch?

In that case you also have the option of using push, but reroute the
message to the best worker.