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Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Flickr Engineers Do It Offline

http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/09/26/flickr-engineers-do-it-offline
"It seems that using queuing systems in web apps is the new hottness . While the basic idea itself certainly isn’t new, its application to modern, large, scalable sites seems to be. At the very least, it’s something that deserves talking about — so here’s how Flickr does it, to the tune of 11 million tasks a day."

Mercurial Queues - Mozilla Developer Center

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mercurial_Queues
"Mercurial Queues, or MQ, is a Mercurial extension that lets you keep work in progress as mutable patches, instead of as immutable changesets. ... The output of a developer (on a good day, anyway) is patches. The MQ extension lets you treat a stack of patches as works-in-progress. You can apply them as Mercurial changesets, unapply them, edit them, and when they're done, turn them into permanent changesets and push them."

Simon Wistow - Standing in Line

http://deflatermouse.livejournal.com/145533.html
"What I actually want out of this is a kind of de facto standard like Memcached or Apache or whatever that's so simple to understand and use that it changes the way people develop their apps such that they just start with the assumption that some of their