Asynchronous Tasks With Django and Celery
When I was new to Django, one of the most frustrating things I experienced was the need to run a bit of code periodically. I wrote a nice function that performed an action that needed to run daily at 12am. Easy, right? Wrong. This turned out to be a huge problem to me since at the time I was used to “Cpanel-type” web hosting where there was a nice handy GUI for setting up cron jobs for this very purpose.
After much research, I found a nice solution – Celery, a powerful asynchronous job queue used for running tasks in the background. But this led to additional problems, since I couldn’t find an easy set of instructions to integrate Celery into a Django Project.