[ANN] beanstalkd 0.5

[Daryn Nakhuda]

Two things I'd suggest looking at for inspiration in building your  
queue system are:

1. JMS.
2. Amazon's SQS service.

I understand the idea of keeping it simple, but there are quite a few  
little details that can really make a difference.

Daryn




On Dec 11, 2007, at 2:35 PM, mike wrote:

> On 12/11/07, Keith Rarick <kr at essembly.com> wrote:
>
>> Right now, if power goes out on a beanstalkd box, you will lose all
>> the jobs that were on that box. We're planning to add persistence to
>> beanstalk to make recovery possible in such a situation.
>>
>> However, in practice, the queue is usually empty -- jobs run almost
>> immediately after they were submitted, so the chance of losing
>> important work is lower than you  might expect.
>
> When I design a queue system (like MySQL queue table and PHP running
> via cron to process jobs) I have a status of scheduled/pending,
> processing (currently processing), error, completed, start time, end
> time, any message if there is an error, or output in general even with
> success (it depends, I suppose)
>
> I would hope it has most of that functionality. It is cool but I would
> not feel comfortable sending jobs into a void that might process it so
> fast I can't tell but at the same time I can't tell also that it
> processed the job and was successful or errored :)