Gearman was orignially designed at Danga to help scale LiveJournal.com, but now Gearman development is very active again with a re-write in C, additional features like persistent queues, and new adoption happening within many organizations. We’re also introducing new and improved client APIs for many languages, including new user-defined functions for Drizzle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
The Gearman APIs and simple server installation allow you to have your own distributed computing framework setup in a matter of minutes, allowing you to focus on your own code rather than the plumbing. It is trivial to integrate Gearman with existing applications, and there are even command line interfaces so everyday shell hackers can make use of Gearman! This session will introduce these new concepts, show how to get started, and then describe a few common use cases.