September 25, 2020 Python

Asynchronous Tasks in Django with Redis and Celery

Introduction In this tutorial I will be providing a general understanding of why celery message queue’s are valuable along with how to utilize celery in conjunction with Redis in a Django application. To demonstrate implementation specifics I will build a minimalistic image processing application that generates thumbnails of images submitted by users. The following topics will be covered: The code for this example can be found on GitHub along with installation and set up instructions if you just want to […]

September 25, 2020 Python

Asynchronous Tasks Using Flask, Redis, and Celery

Introduction As web applications evolve and their usage increases, the use-cases also diversify. We are now building and using websites for more complex tasks than ever before. Some of these tasks can be processed and feedback relayed to the users instantly, while others require further processing and relaying of results later. The increased adoption of internet access and internet-capable devices has led to increased end-user traffic. In a bid to handle increased traffic or increased complexity of functionality, sometimes we […]

September 25, 2020 Python

Working with Redis in Python with Django

Introduction Data is increasingly becoming a valuable commodity in the current era of technology and this necessitates the optimization of storage and access to this data. There are quite a few notable solutions for the storage of data, including Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, which store data in a structured format using rows and columns and the relationships within the data. Apart from RDBMS, there are key-value stores that store data based on unique keys […]