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Description:
Application framework to farm out work to other machines or processes

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: job-queue distributed-systems worker background-jobs framework

Install: brew install gearman

About:
Gearman is an application framework that provides a generic mechanism to farm out work to other machines or processes. It allows you to do work in parallel, load balance processing, and call functions from other languages. The system consists of a client, a worker, and a job server that coordinates and manages the tasks.

Key Features:

Language Agnostic: Clients and workers can be written in a variety of programming languages
Asynchronous Job Processing: Enables non-blocking execution and parallel processing of tasks
Scalable Architecture: Easily add more workers to handle increased load without code changes
Generic Task Distribution: Decouples application logic from the underlying infrastructure

Use Cases:

Offloading CPU-intensive tasks from a web server to background workers
Distributing image or video processing jobs across a cluster of machines
Creating a unified system to handle tasks from applications written in different languages

Alternatives:

Celery – Python-specific task queue, often easier to set up for Python-only environments
RabbitMQ – A robust message broker that can be used for task distribution, but requires more configuration

Version History

Detected	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 11, 2025 4:44pm	0	VERSION_BUMP	2ab0e415
Aug 26, 2025 5:25am	0	VERSION_BUMP	969e5e5c
Dec 16, 2024 6:40am	4	VERSION_BUMP	04da6573
Sep 13, 2024 8:27am	3	VERSION_BUMP	7fc40ca2