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On 23/08/14 07:39, Zane Bitter wrote:
> We held the inaugural Heat mid-cycle meetup in Raleigh, North Carolina
> this week. There were a dozen folks in attendance, and I think
> everyone agreed that it was a very successful event. Notes from the
> meetup are on the Etherpad here:
>
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/heat-juno-midcycle-meetup
>
> Here are a few of the conclusions:
>
...
> * Marconi is now called Zaqar.
> Who knew?
>
> * Marc^W Zaqar is critical to pretty much every major non-Convergence
> feature on the roadmap.
> We knew that we wanted to use it for notifications, but we also want
> to make those a replacement for events, and a conduit for warnings and
> debugging information to the user. This is becoming so important that
> we're going to push ahead with an implementation now without waiting
> to see when Zaqar will graduate. Zaqar would also be a good candidate
> for pushing metadata changes to servers, to resolve the performance
> issues currently caused by polling.
>
Until Zaqar is generally available we can still remove the polling load
from heat by pushing metadata to a swift TempURL. This is ready now for
review:
https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:bp/swift-deployment-transport,n,z