The rest of this chapter will cover the following popular asynchronous systems used with Django, with somewhat different use cases. They are as listed as follows:
Let's first understand the most popular and robust solution for running tasks asynchronously: Celery.
Celery is a feature-rich asynchronous task queue manager. Here, a task refers to a callable that, when executed, will perform the activity asynchronously. Celery is used in production by several well-known organizations including Instagram and Mozilla, for handling millions of tasks a day.
While installing Celery, you will need to pick and choose various components such as a broker and result store. If you...