If you haven't yet heard about Gearman, it's time to have a look at it. Its distributed client server architecture are a perfect match for today's cloud oriented applications.
When talking about Gearman, much stress is often given on its scalability features, such as map/reduce and distributed loads. But Gearman has also a distinctive advantage in the feature department, because of its design that I like to describe as cooperation of the fittest.
While a traditional application is written entirely in a given language, or it must find ways of integrating multiple languages parts, Gearman encourages easy cooperation between parts written in different [Read more...]