Highly Scalable Session-like Serverside Storage about acs-aem-commons

[justinedelson]

This sounds like wheel reinvention to me :)

If you want to use a "session-like" storage, IMHO you should be using sessions. Which is typically going to mean JBoss, WebLogic or WebSphere. All of which can support distributed sessions.

What might be a good idea is to look at creating a Redis ResourceProvider, like the Cassandra ResourceProvider which was done for GSoC. This ResourceProvider should probably be offered to Apache Sling.

[davidjgonzalez]

Let me take a step back (may warrant a new GH issue).

IMO we need an easy adapter into a highly scalable data store that can act in an auxiliary capacity to CRX. A common case is session storage, or high write profile-esque data (that needs to be persisted past the session even).

Anyhow - i have a particular affinity for Redis because it is so simple, and naturally limited in size (in memory) and super fast which makes it interesting complement to CRX.

I dont know that pushing 3rd party app servers (ops overhead) is a great solution either.

[justinedelson]

Ah... so if you're not talking about sessions per se, then I think a ResourceProvider is the way to go. The whole cookie business threw me off.

Oh, and re: ops overhead... there's overhead anytime you deploy something extra. Whether that's JBoss or Redis :)

[davidjgonzalez]

Yeah - sorry, i was putting the cart in front of the horse on this.

I sort of agree w your last point, but there are significantly different levels of effort (not to mention cost on the commercial servers) in running and supporting AEM in App Server X vs running Redis (Redis just happens to be a particularly simple DS).

I also think many customers are attracted to (and sold on) the self-contained deployment model AEM.

Either way, I agree a ResourceProvider and supporting WriteUtil are excellent foundational components for something like this. Stew on a Redis ResourceProvider for ACS AEM Commons; I actually happen to have one I built for the heck of it thats 90-95% done.

TBH Oak is biggest detractor for investing time into this as it sounds like it will solve some/most of these issues..?

[davidjgonzalez]

Closed for now