[Baypiggies] Asynchronous web tasks

[Tung Wai Yip]

I'm using RabbitMQ and Celery. It certainly can be triggered by both  
cases. In addition, you can deploy it on different servers if necessary.

Wai Yip

> 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:
>
> 1. Twisted allows both a and b though the learning curve with twisted is
> steeper
> 2. RabbitMQ and celery is easier to use, allows a but does it also allow  
> b?
>
> I am looking for some opinions /recommendations to use one of  these two
> technologies or something else altogether ?
> Thanks
> Meenal