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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: eric-day</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/eric-day.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2009-01-13T16:44:15+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Gearman protocol</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/13/protocol/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-01-13T16:44:15+00:00</published><updated>2009-01-13T16:44:15+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/13/protocol/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://gearmanproject.org/doku.php?id=protocol"&gt;Gearman protocol&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Notes compiled by Eric Day, principle author of the C server implementation.


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</summary><category term="eric-day"/><category term="gearman"/><category term="protocol"/></entry><entry><title>New Gearman Server &amp; Library in C, MySQL UDFs</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/13/gearman/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-01-13T16:41:57+00:00</published><updated>2009-01-13T16:41:57+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/13/gearman/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.oddments.org/?p=30"&gt;New Gearman Server &amp;amp; Library in C, MySQL UDFs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Gearman, the job queue written for LiveJournal and now used by Digg and Yahoo!, has been rewritten in C. Looks like a good candidate for an easily configured lightweight message queue. Also includes hooks for writing MySQL functions that can interact with queues.


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