Hi folks,

I started playing with Beanstalk lately and I'm impressed.  Its
lightweight server process, minimalist protocol, and narrow focus on
job queueing seem to make it a strong contender against other queueing
systems I've used (most notably AMQP/RabbitMQ, Kestrel, Resque, and
Delayed Job).

My question is about whether anyone has considered (or would consider)
a patch to add optional SASL authentication to beanstalkd.  This would
make it more suitable for running in cloud environments like Amazon
EC2, where dynamic IP addresses, elastic server provisioning (e.g.
spin up and spin down of server instances can happen on the fly), and
multitenancy make IP-based authentication difficult or impossible to
use.

For example, memcached recently added SASL support for precisely this reason:

http://blog.northscale.com/northscale-blog/2009/11/sasl-memcached-now-available.html
http://github.com/memcached/memcached/commit/f1307c4d9cadb94076a99cc2f88a00f7e0b4161f

Adam

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