Simon Willison’s Weblog

Introducing Resque. A new background worker management queue developed at GitHub, using Redis for the persistence layer. The blog post explains both the design and the shortcomings of previous solutions at length. Within 24 hours of the release code an external developer, Adam Cooke, has completely reskinned the UI.

# 4th November 2009, 8:20 pm / github, open-source, queue, redis, resque, ruby, sinatra, workers