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Perksey•1/7/22, 2:09 PM

design so far

Perksey•1/7/22, 2:49 PM

GOD WHYYYYYYYYYYYY

Perksey•1/7/22, 2:49 PM

azure functions uses newtonsoft.json

Perksey•1/7/22, 2:49 PM

;-;

Kai•1/7/22, 3:58 PM

I know

Kai•1/7/22, 3:58 PM

It's a pain

Perksey•1/7/22, 3:58 PM

having to make a source generator to make some JSON converter cruft for me

Perksey•1/7/22, 3:58 PM

if i only had to account for one JSON serializer maybe i'd be fine doing it myself

Perksey•1/7/22, 3:58 PM

but no

Perksey•1/7/22, 3:58 PM

i have to account for BOTH

PPerksey design so far

Kai•1/7/22, 3:58 PM

Wtf are you doing

KKai Wtf are you doing

Perksey•1/7/22, 3:59 PM

making a layer so that the HTML/JS component (with the interact.js "window") can talk to EGL/OpenGL/the code running in Azure

Perksey•1/7/22, 4:03 PM

the code gets submitted to the azure function
the azure function registers itself as a window and input platform
the azure function essentially runs the code as a C# script
window.Initialize brings up the EGL context
// all other functions work pretty much as usual
window.GLContext.SwapBuffers will get the image from the EGL framebuffer and add it to an event queue
a. on the web side, the HTML/JS component is continuously popping from this event queue
b. it pops the "push frame" (or whatever i called it) event, and takes the base64 png and modifies the HTML DOM to display it

Perksey•1/7/22, 4:04 PM

in addition, in response to interact.js events the HTML/JS component pushes events onto the event queue which are consumed in window.DoEvents

Perksey•1/7/22, 4:07 PM

jupyter will work pretty much the same but like 1000000000000x faster because the data doesn't have to travel anywhere physically

Kai•1/7/22, 4:47 PM

the azure function registers itself as a window and input platform

this requires durable functions which is 1000x more expensive

Perksey•1/7/22, 4:48 PM

if expensive as in £ i'm not fussed

Perksey•1/7/22, 4:48 PM

on the actual durable entity storage, i'm just going to have a timer function which garbage collects.

Kai•1/7/22, 4:49 PM

I mean do whatever you want (also iirc you can put a timeout on those) but I'd not use anything stateful on the server side

Perksey•1/7/22, 4:50 PM

yeah, i just couldn't figure out a way to make this stateless as well as interactive without introducing fixed costs

Perksey•1/7/22, 5:05 PM

it'd be a lot better if an azure function can be its own SignalR hub, rather than being forced to integrate with Azure SignalR Service

Perksey•1/7/22, 5:05 PM

that would solve all the issues and would require no storage of state

Perksey•1/7/22, 5:06 PM

or heck even just a websocket

Perksey•1/7/22, 5:34 PM

ok i am now dead set on using SignalR

Perksey•1/7/22, 5:34 PM

so i need to figure out a good serverless hub spawner

Perksey•1/7/22, 5:35 PM

my current thinking is when you go to the try page, it calls some sort of orchestrator and gives you a dedicated container hosting a signalr hub. if nothing runs on this container in a minute, it shuts down the container and the page will need to ask the orchestrator for another one. likewise, if something runs for more than a minute, we first try to shutdown the running code cleanly but if nothing bites in 5ish seconds, we forcibly free the container.

Perksey•1/7/22, 5:37 PM

but

Perksey•1/7/22, 5:37 PM

errr

Perksey•1/7/22, 5:37 PM

what azure services to use for that lol