[OT] Deferred jobs server as backend for web application

[Kushal Kumaran]

On Apr 12, 6:24 am, "Sean Davis" <seand... at gmail.com> wrote:
> In the past, I have put together web applications that process tasks
> serially, either with short algorithms to manipulate user-submitted
> data or to return database queries.  However, now I am faced with the
> task of having a long-running process being started by a web
> submission.  I want to process an uploaded file.  One way to do this
> is to simply start a process each time someone submits a job and then
> email when complete.  Instead, I would like to have a way of
> submitting the job to a persistent backend queue that can process the
> job and answer queries about the status of the job (if it is still
> running) or return results.  I have looked at threadpool, which seems
> fine if I a want to submit jobs from a single process (such as a Qt
> application, etc), but it won't work directly for a web platform where
> I will likely have multiple threads/processes handling http requests.
> Any suggestions on how to go about this?
>
> Thanks,
> Sean

I recently discovered this:
http://vicerveza.homeunix.net/~viric/soft/ts/

Might be what you need.
--
Kushal