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About Gearman

Gearman is a system to farm out work to other machines, dispatching function calls to machines that are better suited to do work, to do work in parallel, to load balance lots of function calls, or to call functions between languages.

Presentation

• USENIX 2007 -- starting at slide 83

The Server

• gearmand -- the server daemon. The bridge between workers (clients who can do work) and callers (clients who want work done). You should run several of these (at least two) for both load balancing and high availability.

Language Support (Client APIs)

• Perl client -- What you need for both Perl workers to callers.
• Perl async client -- Async caller client for running in event loops. Uses Danga::Socket, but could be adapted to use POE somewhat easily.
• Ruby [svn]
• Python [svn]

Need Help?

• Mailing list - Join the mailing list... we love Gearman and want to help you love it too...
• Gearman List Archives - For postings until June 2008