[Baypiggies] Asynchronous web tasks

[joshua kaderlan]

Yeah, this is the standard advice I've seen for solving this problem: cron for scheduled jobs and RabbitMQ/celery or 0MQ for other tasks.





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> From: Dirk Bergstrom <dirk at otisbean.com>
>To: baypiggies at python.org 
>Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2012 9:19 AM
>Subject: Re: [Baypiggies] Asynchronous web tasks
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>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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