This looks like a great use of gevent and zeromq. Anyone interested in author's PowerHose library (https://github.com/mozilla-services/powerhose https://github.

This looks like a great use of gevent and zeromq. Anyone interested in author's PowerHose library (https://github.com/mozilla-services/powerhose https://github.com/mozilla-services/powerhose), might also want to check out the protocol patterns documented by the zeromq guys, http://rfc.zeromq.org http://rfc.zeromq.org. Specifically the Worker Manager Protocol might be relevant to this use case.