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12th May 2008 - Link Blog

Beanstalkd. This is the light-weight cross-language queue I’ve been waiting for. Similar to Starling but your workers don’t need to poll for new jobs; you can call the blocking “reserve” call instead.

Posted 12th May 2008 at 9:12 am

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