We have a similar setup for our application I have to say that I agree with the article. Some of our workers work in tandem to solve small data chunks, some do

We have a similar setup for our application I have to say that I agree with the article. Some of our workers work in tandem to solve small data chunks, some do async fire and forget types of jobs. All in all, gearman was a pleasure to work with. As far as the memory job queue not being reclaimed, that might be mitigated by using a secondary storage for it ala mysql via libdrizzle.