[blcArmadillo]

Look forward to reading the future articles. Right now I'm working on a side project that has a need for some asynchronous tasks. I was planning on using beanstalkd but the one thing that concerns me is that if the queue goes down the outstanding jobs are not persisted. Any recommendations on the best way around this?

[nesquena]

Yes beanstalkd has solid persistence support now in later versions. You can use the “-b” option, and beanstalkd will write all jobs to a binlog. If the power goes out, you can restart beanstalkd with the same option and it will recover the contents of the log.

[desas]

beanstalkd -b should work. I haven't tried this.