Working with Django and Celery

Automate workflows and deliver smooth user experiences with Django and Celery

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Manage asynchronous tasks with Django and Celery

With Celery, you can schedule tasks that run outside the HTTP request/response flow, ensuring that your users are never slowed down by work like:

  • Running machine learning models
  • Sending bulk emails
  • Processing images or PDFs
  • Generating exports of user data
  • Performing backups

Working with Django and Celery provides a roadmap you can follow to get the most out of Celery in your Django project.

The best part? The guide is completely free.

What's in the guide?

This guide is an excellent starting point for using Celery with Django. The detailed walkthroughs, coupled with exhaustive code samples, will cover the common use cases you may encounter. You will learn how to test your code, identify and fix issues, and containerize Celery with Docker.

You don't have to learn everything all at once. The guide is meant to be read over a longer period as you write more and more code.

  • Schedule custom commands with Celery Beat
  • Build resiliency into your app by retrying failed tasks
  • Containerize Django, Celery, and Redis with Docker
  • Monitor Celery workers with Flower

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Asynchronous Tasks with Django and Celery

Configure Celery to handle long-running tasks in a Django app.

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Handling Periodic Tasks in Django and Celery and Docker

Manage periodic tasks with Django, Celery, and Docker.

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Automatically Retrying Failed Celery Tasks

Automatically retry failed Celery tasks.

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Working with Celery and Database Transactions

Make Celery work well with Django Database Transactions.

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What's Next?

The Definitive Guide to Celery and Django

Our course on adding Celery to a Django application builds on the best practices learned in this guide.

Authored by Software Engineer Michael Yin, this course covers how to:

  • Set up Celery with Django and Docker
  • Process form submissions with a Celery worker
  • Schedule Django commands to run with Celery Beat
  • Prevent, identify, and resolve issues with a Test-Driven Development strategy

The Definitive Guide to Celery and Django

Learn how to add Celery to a Django application to provide asynchronous task processing.

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