Just a quick note to point out a couple of presentations on Queuing. I’ve recently shown the second (which admittedly has some significant things in common with the original, and not just the web-based slides). Either way, you are welcome to look at them online, and the original html source, and some source code, are
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I’ve previously shown you why you may want to put some tasks through a queuing system, what sort of jobs you could define, plus how to keep a worker process running for as long as you would like (but still be mindful of problems that happen). In this post, I’ll show you how to put
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I’m taking a slight diversion now, to show you how the main worker processor runs. There are two parts to it – the actual worker, written in PHP, and the script that keeps running it. For testing with return from the worker, we’ll just return a random number. In order to avoid returning a normally
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The use of Beanstalkd as a queueing system What is an asynchronous queue The classic wikipedia quote (Message queue) In computer science, message queues and mailboxes are software-engineering components used for interprocess communication, or for inter-thread communication within the same process. They use a queue for messaging – the passing of control or of content.
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