task-queue
Parallel processing in PHP – How do you do it?
i use exec(). Its easy and clean. You basically need to build a thread manager, and thread scripts, that will do what you need. I dont like fsockopen() because it will open a server connection, that will build up and may hit the apache’s connection limit I dont like curl functions for the same reason … Read more
Is there a performance difference between pooling connections or channels in rabbitmq?
I have found this on the rabbitmq website it is near the bottom so I have quoted the relevant part below. The tl;dr version is that you should have 1 connection per application and 1 channel per thread. Connections AMQP connections are typically long-lived. AMQP is an application level protocol that uses TCP for reliable … Read more
Background processes in Node.js
If you want something lightweight, that runs in the same process as the server, I highly recommend Bull. It has a simple API that allows for a fine grained control over your queues. If you’re looking for something that runs as a standalone worker process, perhaps look into Kue. It can run as a RESTful … Read more