The Art of Message Queues
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Mike Willbanks is a software engineer manager at CaringBridge, a nonprofit providing free websites that connect people experiencing a significant health challenge to family and friends. He has more than a decade of experience programming the web with the majority being with PHP. He is a Zend Certified Engineer and focuses on high availability and high performance applications. Mike organizes the MNPHP User Group and has a passion for knowledge sharing and contributing back to the community.
Message queuing is an art of handling background processing. Most processes can be off loaded to the background for processing. This presentation goes through why message queues are needed, what they help to solve, available software and a few quick examples.
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/mwillbanks/the-art-of-message-queues
