Best practice for variables shared between processes?

[Léon Brocard]

On 20 September 2010 17:43, Peter Edwards <peter at dragonstaff.co.uk> wrote:
> On 20 September 2010 17:30, Roger Burton West <roger at firedrake.org> wrote:
>
>> I wish to have two processes, a "producer" (which will create files) and
>> a "consumer"

When hearing those two words you should automatically think...

> Use a queue?

... instead of writing yet more software. A couple are:

> ApacheMQ | RabbitMQ | Beanstalkd

And probably also Redis. I've used all of them and would probably
recommend Redis for something lightweight and RabbitMQ for something
heavyweight with clustering.

HTH, Leon.