Concurrent Alarms Processing
Currently I am working on a development project of a Control System and am faced with the task of massive event processing of measurements for signaling alarm conditions (alarms that are activated when a certain value becomes above or below a certain level, etc.). This control system notifies the alarm processing component each of the measured variables (tags) and the component must update the state machine of each of the alarms set in the control system. The problem I face is that we want the system as a whole to be scalable (we need to resize depending on the load to which it is submitted) and therefore in some scenarios the number of notifications to the component of alarm processing is such that exceeds its handling capacity so it is impossible for a single computing entity (task or process) of performing real-time processing. Given this scenario, I raised the possibility of horizontally scale the alarms processing component. But the problem of scaling alarm processing componen