PHPClasses.org Blog: Distributing PHP processing with Gearman

Courtesy PHPDeveloper.org  Mon, 11/23/2009 - 12:58

On the PHPClasses blog there's a new post looking at using the Gearman framework with PHP via a PECL extension.

Gearman is a generic framework to distribute processing jobs to separate processes in the same machine or other machines in a cluster.

It allows your application to perform tasks in parallel, balance the processing load, and even invoke code written in other languages.

The "Gearman" word is an anagram of "manager". Its purpose is solely to...


 

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