Django + Celery Async Task Patterns

Production-grade patterns for background task processing in Django using Celery with Redis or RabbitMQ.

When to Activate

• Adding background jobs or async processing to a Django app
• Implementing periodic/scheduled tasks
• Offloading slow operations (email, PDF generation, API calls) from request cycle
• Setting up Celery Beat for cron-like scheduling
• Debugging task failures, retries, or queue backlogs
• Writing tests for Celery tasks

Project Setup

Installation