From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2009-12-24T03:57:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Suggestions for a distributed job queue

On Wednesday 23 December 2009 11:04:18 am Tony Arcieri wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:10 AM, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22 December 2009 03:39:15 pm Tony Arcieri wrote:
> > > For starters, it uses NFS as the distribution protocol, and using NFS
> >
> > isn't
> >
> > > really practical in our environment.
> >
> > Not that I doubt it, but I'm curious what the limitation is. Is it
> > scalability?
> 
> More like security.  This is running partially in our datacenter and
> partially on EC2.  While I'm sure it "can be done", it really doesn't seem
> like the ideal solution.

Worth mentioning: EC2's internal IPs can be pretty much completely firewalled 
off, and VPNs are easy enough to set up. Probably easily doable.

But you're right, probably not the ideal solution.