Btw, one thing ive been looking for is a relatively high level queue/worker service, that is already written and distributed. I'd like to be able to write work

Btw, one thing ive been looking for is a relatively high level queue/worker service, that is already written and distributed. I'd like to be able to write workers in JavaScript or python, and found one the other night in erlang that does this, called DISCO. However, it seems a bit heavyweight. Just need to spawn periodic tasks that will gather data and feed it into the couch. I could do it with cron, but something that divides them over each machine in the cluster seems like something people would have written already. Maybe DISCO is what I need but it seems a bit heavyweight, while cron is too little.