Instant Parallel Processing with Gearman

Learn how to use Gearman to build scalable distributed applications

Key Features

• Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results
• Build a cluster of managers, workers, and clients using Gearman to scale your application
• Understand how to reduce single-points-of-failure in your distributed applications
• Build clients and workers to process data in the background and provide real-time updates to your frontend

Book Description

What you will learn

• Develop clients and workers to process data
• Use Gearman to implement a map-reduce cluster
• Take existing libraries and use them with Gearman
• Learn how Gearman stores jobs and available persistence options
• Build a cluster of managers, workers, and clients to scale your application
• Discover ways to use Gearman to avoid single-point-of-failure in your system

Who this book is for

This book targets developers who are interested in adding distributed data processing to their applications. The examples in this book are written using Ruby, but are documented thoroughly to allow developers comfortable with other languages to understand how to use them in a language of their choice. Intermediate programmers with no previous experience in distributed computing will also be able to easily follow the content.