https://www.justincarmony.com/tags/solo/ Recent content in Solo on Justin Carmony Hugo en-us Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:20:10 +0000 https://www.justincarmony.com/2012/01/10/php-workers-with-redis-solo/ Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:20:10 +0000 https://www.justincarmony.com/2012/01/10/php-workers-with-redis-solo/ <p>I&rsquo;ve come across an awesome combination of tools for managing PHP Workers, and thought I&rsquo;d share.</p> <h3 id="why-workers">Why Workers?</h3> <p>Sometimes there are situations when you want to parallel process things. Other times you might have a list of tasks to accomplish, and you don&rsquo;t want to make the user wait after pressing a button. This is where &ldquo;Workers&rdquo; can come in. They are independent scripts that run along side of your application, performing tasks, or &ldquo;jobs.&rdquo;</p>