http://simonwillison.net/2009-01-13T16:44:15+00:00Simon Willison2009-01-13T16:44:15+00:002009-01-13T16:44:15+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/13/protocol/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://gearmanproject.org/doku.php?id=protocol">Gearman protocol</a></strong></p> Notes compiled by Eric Day, principle author of the C server implementation. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/eric-day">eric-day</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gearman">gearman</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/protocol">protocol</a></p>

2009-01-13T16:41:57+00:002009-01-13T16:41:57+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/13/gearman/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.oddments.org/?p=30">New Gearman Server &amp; Library in C, MySQL UDFs</a></strong></p> Gearman, the job queue written for LiveJournal and now used by Digg and Yahoo!, has been rewritten in C. Looks like a good candidate for an easily configured lightweight message queue. Also includes hooks for writing MySQL functions that can interact with queues. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/c">c</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digg">digg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/eric-day">eric-day</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gearman">gearman</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/livejournal">livejournal</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/message-queues">message-queues</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mysql">mysql</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/queues">queues</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scaling">scaling</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo">yahoo</a></p>

2007-12-15T12:29:07+00:002007-12-15T12:29:07+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Dec/15/programming/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://programming.reddit.com/info/62zuw/comments">Techniques for safely consuming external HTTP on demand?</a></strong></p> 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. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/askreddit">askreddit</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/danga">danga</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digg">digg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gearman">gearman</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/http">http</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/joe-stump">joe-stump</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/queue">queue</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/reddit">reddit</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scaling">scaling</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/workers">workers</a></p>