[Baypiggies] Asynchronous web tasks

[Dirk Bergstrom]

On 02/02/2012 08:28 AM, Meenal Pant wrote:
> I use Django in production and now have a need to perform asynchronous
> backend tasks that
> a. Are some scheduled jobs
> b. Jobs triggered via a user input via Django frontend.
> I have been thinking of using twisted or message queues (RabbitMQ and
> celery) to achieve this.  From my research so far:
> I am looking for some opinions /recommendations to use one of  these two
> technologies or something else altogether ?

How's about cron for a and subprocess.Popen for b?

Start with the simplest implementation that will work, and only move to 
something complicated if you desperately need it.  Adding another 
heavyweight set of libraries to a Django app is not going to help you 
get more sleep at night.

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