April 2016
Intermediate to advanced
170 pages
3h 48m
English
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Celery alternatives – Pyro
Pyro (http://pythonhosted.org/Pyro4/), which stands for Python Remote Objects, is a package that has been around for quite some time, since 1998 or so. As a result, it is remarkably stable and feature-complete.
It takes a very different approach to task distribution than Celery or Python-RQ in that it exposes Python objects as servers on a network. It then creates proxy objects to them so that the calling code sees them as local objects. This architecture was very popular at the end of the 90s with systems such as CORBA and Java RMI.
The fact that Pyro is somewhat hiding the fact that some of the objects in one's code are local and some are remote is at times a source of criticism. The reason being that there are a number ...