[asterisk-dev] AstriDevCon ideas

[Dan Jenkins]

Thanks Josh! I'd seen the no dialplan needed but hadn't seen the move
functionality (woot!)

On Thu, 24 Oct 2019, 18:09 Joshua C. Colp, <jcolp at digium.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019, at 1:59 PM, Dan Jenkins wrote:
> > Unfortunately I won't be at DevCon this year (I'll be on a plane flying
> > from West to East US) - I will of course try to listen in etc but I'd
> > like to raise one new idea and another maintenance issue to be
> > discussed at DevCon.
> >
> > Idea:
> >
> > I find it tough to get people (even myself) to build actual production
> > applications with the ARI because of the nature of how we connect to
> > the ARI - one websocket from an application into Asterisk. Over the
> > years this has lead to proxies sitting in the middle, those being
> > maintained (or unmaintained due to maintainers moving on and no longer
> > developing the codebase etc). Last year we discussed making the ARI
> > work with more than one websocket connected with the same app name - as
> > far as I'm aware this hasn't happened yet.
> >
> > Working with Drachtio (a SIP Proxy) a lot this year has made me realise
> > we were overcomplicating the matter. Drachtio has the idea of inbound
> > and outbound connections (apps that are addressable by Drachtio) - its
> > very much like ARI. Inbound connections - Node app makes a TCP
> > connection to Drachtio and traffic is sent down it. Good for
> > development of an idea maybe but not good for production scaling -
> > exactly the same as ARI. Drachtio also has the concept for outbound
> > connections - whenever a SIP dialog (or whatever messaging) needs to go
> > to an application, Drachtio makes an outbound connection to an app - 10
> > Drachtios can all make outbound connections to a TCP loadbalancer and
> > could talk to 500 Node apps - ridiculous numbers but hopefully you see
> > the point. Its easy to scale in comparison to what we have in ARI today.
> >
> > Dialplan (yes I know.... after I asked to not have to even write
> > Stasis() any more....) would look like.... - thanks for that! (side
> > note - can we redirect from one stasis app to another yet?)
>
> Yes, you can[1][2].
>
> [1] https://blogs.asterisk.org/2019/09/11/ari-rested-developments/
> [2]
> https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+17+Channels+REST+API#Asterisk17ChannelsRESTAPI-move
>
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