OpenID4 items tagged “queue”
Beanstalkd. This is the light-weight cross-language queue I’ve been waiting for. Similar to Starling but your workers don’t need to poll for new jobs; you can call the blocking “reserve” call instead. 
12th May 2008, 9:12 am
RubyForge: Starling. “Starling is a light-weight persistent queue server that speaks the MemCache protocol. It was built to drive Twitter’s backend, and is in production across Twitter’s cluster.” 
11th January 2008, 9:47 pm
Techniques for safely consuming external HTTP on demand? I asked this question on programming.reddit.com yesterday and got some really insightful answers, including Joe Stump from Digg describing how Digg Images uses Danga’s Gearman worker queue. 
15th December 2007, 12:29 pm
lwqueue. Lightweight cross-language message queue system, written in Perl with client libraries in Perl, Python and Ruby. 16th July 2007, 10:04 am
