I have a number of Gearman workers running constantly, saving things like records of user page views, etc. Occasionally, I\'ll update the PHP code that is used by the Gearman w
This would fit nicely into your continuous integration system. I hope you have it or you should have it soon :-)
As you check in new code, it automatically gets built and deployed onto the server. As a part of the build script, you kill all workers, and launch new ones.