Hello everyone,
We have a devpi deployment with several replicas distributed around the world. Sometimes, a developer, say in Australia (with his index set to the local replica), triggers a build which is most likely to occur in North America. We have seen checksum error (due to our so so network infrastructure) when pulling things across the WAN.
Most people use a homegrown bootstrap script, which among other things, measures the response time between the host and known replicas and lock on the fastest one. This has been working really well for us and has mitigated our network related issues.
However, some people use the devpi client directly which uses whatever server it’s been configured with. So I was wondering if, perhaps through some client plugin hooks, we could integrate that feature, that is, perform latency measurements and switch to the best replica on the fly.
I am not sure if we could make a generic plugin as it would need to be aware of the replicas available in your deployment, but if we can, then we would release it (if there is an interest of course).
Anyhow, I am just fishing here, but any input/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
/Laurent
