In short, Gearman is multi-language, multiple different backends, possible to do RPC-style synchronous processing. Resque and friends[1] are single-language, ex

In short, Gearman is multi-language, multiple different backends, possible to do RPC-style synchronous processing. Resque and friends[1] are single-language, exclusively async, but also extremely transparent because they're just JSON blobs in redis. Resque has a huge following as well. [1]: https://github.com/defunkt/resque/wiki/alternate-implementations https://github.com/defunkt/resque/wiki/alternate-implementat...