Learn Web Development with Python

Asynchronous solutions for Django

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:

• Celery: Worker threads-based model for handling computation outside the Django process
• asyncio: Python built-in module for concurrently executing multiple tasks within the same thread
• Django Channels: Real-time message queue-like architecture to manage I/O events such as WebSockets

Let's first understand the most popular and robust solution for running tasks asynchronously: Celery.