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+20190825
+========
+
+# Redukti
+
+Components:
+* State: Dictionary holding values of application state
+* Action: A name and data pair that encode a change to the state
+* Reducer: A function that takes a state and action to produce a new state
+* Root reducer: Passes the state and action to all reducers
+
+# Derivide
+
+Components:
+* Event: Destination, type of change occurring, old value, and new value
+* Stream: A series of events
+* Pool: Collection of resources for off main thread tasks
+* Plugin: Takes events from stream, performs side effect, and returns result
+* Schema: Set of rules describing the structure of data, used for validating
+* Blob: Collection of data validated against schema(s)
+* Database: The validated form of the blob from schema(s)
+
+# Taijitu
+
+Components:
+* Dispatcher: Waits for new events and sends them to new reducers or listener
+* Listener: Waits for new events and sends them to plugins or dispatcher
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+from gevent import Greenlet, spawn, sleep, joinall
+from gevent.queue import Queue
+from socket import socket, timeout as sock_timeout
+from socket import AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR
+from ssl import wrap_socket
+
+queues = dict()
+queues["hook"] = Queue()
+queues["push"] = Queue()
+queues["pull"] = Queue()
+
+def test(context, old_value, new_value):
+    status = old_value == new_value
+    return True, status
+
+def push(queues):
+    while all([queue for queue in queues]):
+        send = queues.get("push")
+        receive = queues.get("pull")
+        event = send.get()
+        assert isinstance(event, tuple), f"Expected tuple: {event}"
+        if len(event) == 2:
+            error, response = event
+            if error:
+                break
+
+        elif len(event) == 4:
+            where, context, old_value, new_value = event
+            receive.put(event)
+
+    return
+
+def pull(queues):
+    plugins = dict()
+    while all([queue for queue in queues]):
+        hook = queues.get("hook")
+        send = queues.get("push")
+        receive = queues.get("pull")
+        while not hook.empty():
+            plugin = hook.get()
+            assert callable(plugin), f"Expected function: {plugin}"
+            plugins[plugin.__name__.lower()] = plugin
+
+        event = receive.get()
+        assert isinstance(event, tuple), f"Expected tuple: {event}"
+        assert len(event) == 4, f"Invalid format: {event}"
+        where, context, old_value, new_value = event
+
+        stop = False
+        for plugin_name, plugin in plugins.items():
+            if plugin_name == where:
+                result = plugin(context, old_value, new_value)
+                assert isinstance(result, tuple), f"Expected tuple: {result}"
+                assert len(result) == 2, f"Invalid format: {result}"
+                send.put(result)
+                error, response = result
+                if error:
+                    stop = True
+                    break
+
+        if stop:
+            break
+
+    return
+
+queues["hook"].put(test)
+queues["push"].put(("test", "change", None, True))
+
+yin = spawn(push, queues)
+yang = spawn(pull, queues)
+start = lambda: joinall([yang, yin])