seneca-loadbalance-transport - a Seneca plugin

Seneca Load-Balance Transport Plugin

This plugin provides a message transport that load balances accross a set of underlying message transports.

For a gentle introduction to Seneca itself, see the senecajs.org site.

Current Version: 0.1.0

Tested on: Seneca 0.5.21, Node 0.10.31

Install

To install use:

npm install seneca
npm install seneca-loadbalance-transport

Usage

require('seneca')()
  .use('loadbalance-transport', {
    workers:[
      { type: 'tcp', port: 9000 },   // same options you would pass normally to a transport
      { type: 'tcp', port: 9001 },
      { type: 'http', port: 9002 }, // transports do not have to be of same type
    ]
  })
  .client({ type: 'loadbalance' })
  .ready(function(){
    var seneca = this

    // this should round robin
    setInterval(function () {
      seneca.act('a:1', function (err, out) {
        console.dir(arguments)
      })
    }, 222)
  })

Acknowledgements

This project was kindly sponsored by the awesome people at nearForm and is somewhat based on seneca-shard-store.