Pages tagged queues:

Strategy: Flickr - Do the Essential Work Up-front and Queue the Rest | High Scalability
http://highscalability.com/strategy-flickr-do-essential-work-front-and-queue-rest

This strategy is stated perfectly by Flickr's Myles Grant: The Flickr engineering team is obsessed with making pages load as quickly as possible. To that end, we’re refactoring large amounts of our code to do only the essential work up front, and rely on our queuing system to do the rest. Flickr uses a queuing system to process 11 million tasks a day. Leslie Michael Orchard also does a great job explaining the queuing meme in his excellent post Queue everything and delight everyone. Asynchronous work queues are how you scalably solve problems that are too big to handle in real-time.
Beanstalkd / Python Basic Tutorial - Standard Deviations
http://parand.com/say/index.php/2008/10/12/beanstalkd-python-basic-tutorial/
Beanstalkd is an in-memory queuing system. It supports named queues (called ‘tubes’), priorities, and delayed delivery of messages. Terminology: a message is called a job, and queues are called tubes
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