[asterisk-dev] AstriDevCon ideas

[Joshua C. Colp]

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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