I’m taking a slight diversion now, to show you how the main worker processor runs. There are two parts to it – the actual worker, written in PHP, and the script that keeps running it. For testing with return from the worker, we’ll just return a random number. In order to avoid returning a normally
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The use of Beanstalkd as a queueing system What is an asynchronous queue The classic wikipedia quote (Message queue) In computer science, message queues and mailboxes are software-engineering components used for interprocess communication, or for inter-thread communication within the same process. They use a queue for messaging – the passing of control or of content.
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Phew. That would have been embarrassing if I’d not passed my ZCE on Thursday afternoon (Jun 4th, 2009).
Just a quick note on what is going to be posted in the next few weeks – I’ve got a few significant pieces in mind for various topics – including: Doing the work elsewhere – asynchronous queues This is going to be a series of articles – and to support it, I’m rewriting some code
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