Examples

Here are a number of common scenarios where you’ll find gearman is an excellent fit. Each example strives to have code samples in multiple languages. If your favorite is missing, please help out with a pull request!

Foreground Jobs

This basic request pattern will send a job to to gearman and block until a response (or timeout) occurs.

• Basic Reverse String
• Geocoding

Background Jobs

Background Jobs will send a job to be processed to gearman and immediately return when gearman has the message.

• Sending Emails
• Logging

Tasks

Execute multiple jobs in parallel as Tasks. Great for speeding up lots of small calls which done in serial take a long time.

• Multi-Query
• Synchronous Image Resize

Advanced Foreground Jobs

There are a number of more advanced techniques you can employ on foreground jobs such as…

• Track Job Progress
• Send And Receive Chunked Data

Gearman In The Wild

Links to write ups about how gearman is being used at companies to get real work done.

• Build & Test Framework at Tokutek
• Using Gearman For Distributed Alerts
• Shard-Query – A PHP project which executes queries on horizontally partitioned databases, aggregates, and returns the results.
• Distribute Nagios Checks/Eventhandler with Gearman