[asterisk-dev] AstriDevCon ideas

[Matt Fredrickson]

Thanks for posting your thoughts Dan!  You'll be missed this year.

Matt

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 12:20 PM Dan Jenkins <dan at nimblea.pe> wrote:
>
> 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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