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...talk mailing list. WHAT IS BEANSTALKD? ------------------- Beanstalkd is a fast, distributed, in-memory workqueue service. Its interface is generic, but is intended for use in reducing the latency of page views in high-volume web applications by running most time-consuming tasks asynchronously. Philotic, Inc. developed beanstalkd to improve the response time for the Causes on Facebook (http://apps.facebook.com/causes/) application (with over 9.5 million users). Beanstalkd drastically decreased the average response time for the most common pages to a tiny fraction of the original and dramatically...