Brian Moon's Blog: Apache Worker and PHP
In a recent post to his blog, Brian Moon talks about the experience he's had with using PHP on Apache 2 with a threaded MPM at Dealnews.com. Well, first, what is an MPM? It stands for Multi-Processing...
View ArticleContent with Style: PHP worker processes with Beanstalk and Daemontools
On the Content with Style blog there's a new post looking at creating a worker process with PHP and the help of two other tools - Beanstalkd and Daemontools. Sometimes things just get too heavy for a...
View ArticleMatthew Weier O'Phinney's Blog: Writing Gearman Workers in PHP
Matthew Weier O'Phinney has a new post today about creating Gearman workers in PHP to be able to handle some of the more complex functionality they want surrounding the Zend Framework. We're looking...
View ArticleIbuildings techPortal: Doing the Heavy Lifting: Gearman and Magento
New from the Ibuildings techPortal today, there's a tutorial from Michael Davey looking at using Gearman with Magento to do some of the "heavy lifting" of queuing jobs from inside the tool. With most...
View ArticleLorna Mitchell's Blog: Using Gearman from PHP
Lorna Mitchell has a new post today about using a popular backend processing tool, Gearman, from inside of PHP. Her example gives a full overview of how to add a new job and write the worker for it to...
View ArticleGonzalo Ayuso's Blog: Watermarks in our images with PHP and Gearman
Gonzalo Ayuso had previously shown how to dynamically add watermarks to your images with the help of a mod_rewrite rule. One of the side effects of this is that, with a high load on your server,...
View ArticleMatthew Wells' Blog: Kohana and Gearman - Practical Multitasking
Matthew Wells has a new post that looks at combining Kohana and Gearman to create a system to handle large data processing without slowing down the rest of the application. A commonly identified...
View ArticleJustin Carmony's Blog: PHP Workers with Redis & Solo
In this latest post to his blog Justin Carmony shares some of his experience using Redis and Solo to asynchronously run queries and return data without the user having to wait. Sometimes there are...
View ArticleWan Qi Chen: Background jobs with php and resque (Series, Parts 4, 5 & 6)
Wan Qi Chen has returned with the next three parts in his "Background jobs with PHP and resque" series (first parts here) with parts four, five and six helping you implement the concepts from the...
View ArticleLorna Mitchell: Working with PHP and Beanstalkd
Lorna Mitchell has posted a new tutorial to her site today walking you through using Beanstalkd with PHP for a simple queuing setup in your application. Beanstalkd is "a simple, fast work queue. Its...
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