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Avoid 'anycast' in Publish-Subscribe description
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raboof committed Apr 3, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -89,11 +89,12 @@ The Singleton module can be used to solve these problems:

For coordination among systems it is often necessary to distribute messages to all, or one system of a set of
interested systems in a cluster. This pattern is usually called publish-subscribe and this module solves this exact
problem. It is possible to subscribe to topics and receive messages published to that topic and it is also possible
to broadcast or anycast messages to subscribers of that topic.
problem. It is possible to broadcast messages to all subscribers of a topic, or send a message to an arbitrary actor that has expressed interest.

Cluster Publish-Subscribe is intended to solve the following problems:

* How do I broadcast messages to an interested set of parties in a cluster?
* How do I anycast messages to a member from an interested set of parties in a cluster?
* How do I send a message to a member from an interested set of parties in a cluster?
* How to subscribe and unsubscribe for events of a certain topic in the cluster?

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