localshred/protobuf — pull request #183 by abrandoned (2014-02-24 07:13:07+00:00)
Title: Bdewitt/check workers avail

here is a shot at making the client first check with a server if it can send through a real request so it can balance across a cluster of servers without backing up the queues

if the check avail is enabled (currently a flag as we want to roll it out slowly) it will first send a check avail message (which we can change to a single byte) and gets a response, it will keep checking all of the nodes it is aware of until it finds one with availability

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