What is 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.”
✤ History:
✤ Originally written for LiveJournal in
Perl
✤ The name is an anagram for “Manager,”
since it dispatches jobs to be done, but
does not do anything useful itself.
✤ More modern version is written in C
Friday, 20 April 12