Caveats

Wishbone comes with a couple of caveats you need to keep in mind:

  • Storing data in wishbone.event.Event:

    While you could store whatever Python object type in wishbone.event.Event it’s really designed to store JSON like structures.

  • Queues which are not connected:

    When a queue is not connected to another queue then submitting a message into it will result into the message being dropped.This is by design to ensure queues do not fill up without ever being consumed.

  • IO-bound VS CPU-bound workload:

    Since Wishbone heavily leans on the Gevent library it lends itself best for IO bound workloads.If you have a CPU intensive task, a good idea might be to decouple the IO part from the CPU-intensive part of the chain by running multiple Wishbone processes and pass messages from one to the other.