http://zeroc.com/blogs/matthew Matthew Newhook weblog Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:12:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en … or how long is a piece of string?  From an IceStorm perspective, there are two types of clients: Publishers: Clients that publish messages to topics. Subscribers: Servers that receive messages from a topic. The exact number of supported publishers and subscribers depends on the total load imposed by them. Load is composed of ... http://zeroc.com/blogs/matthew/2008/08/20/how-many-clients-can-icestorm-support/ Glacier2, the Ice firewall traversal service, has two modes by which it forwards requests and replies between clients and servers—buffered and unbuffered. In unbuffered mode, the thread that receives a request or reply forwards it immediately. In buffered mode, requests and replies are queued and delivered by a separate thread. ... http://zeroc.com/blogs/matthew/2008/07/31/glacier2-scalability-improvements-in-ice-33/ I wrote a series of Connections articles in 2006 that explored issues with using Ice in a graphical application. The first three articles concentrated on the GUI event loop, and specifically on strategies for issuing remote invocations without adversely affecting the user experience. The central problem was that all remote ... http://zeroc.com/blogs/matthew/2008/07/28/integrating-ice-with-a-gui-revisted/ The Slice language mappings are very natural. And they are very regular. What I mean by that is, if you know one language mapping, you know what to expect for another language mapping. Does that mean things are always identical? No. There are necessary differences imposed by the target language. For ... http://zeroc.com/blogs/matthew/2008/07/25/regularity-in-language-mappings/ I was very interested last week to see the release of Google Protocol Buffers. Any contribution to the open source community should be congratulated! The rapid demise of XML as a data store for large amounts of non-human readable structured data, and for RPC (such as SOAP), comes as no surprise ... http://zeroc.com/blogs/matthew/2008/07/19/google-protocol-buffers-integration/