Zend Job Queue Alternative

[m3rls]

Hi there,

I'm wondering if anybody knows of a decent alternative to the Zend Job Queue (more info here: http://devzone.zend.com/article/2207-Scalability-and-Responsiveness-with-Zend-Platforms-Job-Queue)

We have no issues buying it, but we don't want the whole Zend Platform, so it'd be quite a bit of overkill simply to get a job queuing application. At this point it looks like I'll just write one but if anybody knows of another solution I'm all ears.

Cheers!

[Weedpacket]

We were in exactly the same situation a few months back: looked at Zend Platform and ended up going for an in-house solution, too. A database to store jobs and things like their status and dependencies on other jobs, an API for programs to register jobs (and an interface for people to write the job code itself against), and cron jobs running on the servers that would regularly pick the oldest "Pending" job that had no dependencies outstanding.

[m3rls]

Thanks for the reply. I figured as much.. It's probably better in the long run to tailor something exactly to our needs anyway! 🙂