By Johannes Plunien on January 30, 2010 6:42 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) Gearman was initially developed by Danga. It's a very nice framework to distribute (sometimes long running) tasks across multiple servers. For a more detailed description see gearman.org where you will also find a rewrite of it in C. First let's take a look at it without Gearman::Driver, using a plain Gearm