DrupalCon Copenhagen August 23-27 2010 - multitasking http://cph2010.drupal.org/taxonomy/term/8218/0 en An introduction to Gearman http://cph2010.drupal.org/sessions/introduction-gearman <div class="field-session-type"> <span>Type:&nbsp;</span> Not planned session </div> <div class="field-text-teaser"> <p>Gearman is a distributed client/server system that works across different operating systems, with different programming languages, in a scalable and fault-tolerant mode.<br /> Add to it that it is incredibly easy to use, and you will wonder why you haven't used it yet.</p> </div> <div class="field-session-duration"> 45 minutes (+15 minutes Q&amp;A) </div> <div class="field-main-image"> <img class="imagefield imagefield-field_main_image" width="200" height="201" alt="" src="http://cph2010.drupal.org/sites/all/files/gearman_small_0.png?1276525386" /> </div> <p>In the age of ubiquitous connectivity, distributed servers have become<br /> readily available and usable. Gearman, a friendly infrastructure for<br /> distributed tasks, gives developers and DBAs a large degree of flexibility<br /> in their applications. Using Gearman, developers can access libraries<br /> written in multiple languages, even if they are different from the ones<br /> used in their main application. DBAs will benefit from Gearman in their<br /> daily tasks, by accessing external features from within the database server<br /> itself. This session introduces Gearman principles and shows some simple</p> <p><a href="http://cph2010.drupal.org/sessions/introduction-gearman" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://cph2010.drupal.org/sessions/introduction-gearman#comments Curious Code & Development Intermediate development map/reduce multitasking parallel processing Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:16:05 +0000 datacharmer 8143 at http://cph2010.drupal.org