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More about Django · Module 10 - Background tasks with Celery

10.1 Why you need a task queue

16 min
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What we cover

  • Slow requests and timeouts
  • Sending email while the user waits
  • Calling third-party APIs that can fail
  • Broker, worker and result backend
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After this lesson you will

  • Recognise work that does not belong in a view
  • Describe how a task queue changes the request flow

Module 10

10.1Why you need a task queue 10.2Celery and Redis setup 10.3Your first tasks 10.4Periodic tasks with Celery Beat 10.5Monitoring your workers