Gearman is a free and open source system to farm out work to other machines, dispatching function calls to machines that are better suited to do work, to load balance lots of function calls, to do work in parallel, or to call functions between languages.Gearman allows you to do work in parallel, to load balance processing, and to call functions between languages. Gearman can be used in a variety of applications, from high-availability web sites to the transport of database replication events. In other words, it is the nervous system for how distributed processing communicates.Here are some key features of \"Gearman\":