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Introducing Resque. A new background worker management queue developed at GitHub, using Redis for the persistence layer. The blog post explains both the design and the shortcomings of previous solutions at length. Within 24 hours of the release code an external developer, Adam Cooke, has completely reskinned the UI.

# 4th November 2009, 8:20 pm / github, open-source, queue, redis, resque, ruby, sinatra, workers

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 / blaine-cook, memcached, message-queues, messaging, queue, ruby, rubyforge, starling, twitter

lwqueue. Lightweight cross-language message queue system, written in Perl with client libraries in Perl, Python and Ruby.

# 16th July 2007, 10:04 am / lightweight, lwqueue, perl, peter-cooper, python, queue, ruby

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