Gearman

Gearman provides a generic application framework to farm out work to other machines or processes that are better suited to do the work. It allows you to do work in parallel, to load balance processing, and to call functions between languages. It can be used in a variety of applications, from high-availability web sites to the transport of database replication events. In this session basic concepts will be introduced in PHP, as well as talking about a few different use cases. In the context of Drupal, Gearman could be used today for scalable module development, and perhaps eventually provide queuing services within the core API.