Evented vs Threaded

Evented vs Threaded

On this post I talk about the main differences between the Threaded and the Evented models and how they work by doing an analogy of a real situation that easy explains both models.

The Threaded model’s analogy is about a bank and how the people is assigned to a cashier, if the cashiers are busy then the people will start to queue, so this is how the resources are blocked, until a cashier is free to atend a person, that resource or thread is blocked. Wait is never confortable, and it could be a pain head if we want to manage a thread pool since we never could know exactly how many threads will be needed in a moment, this is also hard to scale vertically.

About the Evented model we can do an analogy of a butler in a mansion, taking all the requests by the guests and delegating the tasks to the corresponding employeers in the house like the housekeeper, the chef, the driver, gardener, etc. entrying in a loop on its functionlaity, taking requests and delegating. Using an evented model we can avoid the blocking resources due the butler or event loop is taking all the requests and deligating them ASAP entrying in an asynchronous routine that allow us to continue the code and receive the response of our request when is ready. It is easy to scale in the code as well as the physical machines, vertically and horizontally.

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