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15th December 2007 - Link Blog

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.

Posted 15th December 2007 at 12:29 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 15th December 2007.

askreddit 1 danga 1 digg 16 gearman 3 http 124 joe-stump 2 queue 5 reddit 29 scaling 148 workers 4

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