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Kostja Palović

Celery Groups and Chords

Deep dive into differences between Celery Groups and Chords. In this tutorial, you will see when callbacks are called for groups and chords, how the hard-fail chord behaves to see celery chord error callback. You will also see how tasks retry inside groups and chords.

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Kostja Palović

Django CloudWatch Logs

Send Django application logs to Centralized CloudWatch. This enables you to have a better view of logs, search and filter logs. Every container gets its own log stream.

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Kostja Palović

Celery shared_task

shared_task is a decorator that makes a function – a celery task. Its primary purpose is for library developers because it doesn't require Celery App instance, but it is convenient for everyone. See params and examples of how to use it.

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Kostja Palović

Flower Celery Monitoring

Flower is the monitoring and administration tool for Celery. Learn how to setup in local development, how to secure it with BASIC_AUTH and how to deploy it in a production/staging environment in Appliku

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Kostja Palović

Django Bulk Update Model Instances

There are two ways to bulk update your Django model instances depending on the requirements. One is to save multiple objects using .bulk_update() and another is to use QuerySet.update() method.

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Kostja Palović

Bulk Create model instances in Django

If you have a lot of objects to save in database you may want to create them using .bulk_create method to make it faster. This will ignore pre and post save signals.

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Kostja Palović

Django Celery Multiple Queues, when and how to use them

How to work with multiple queues in Celery, why you need it and how to set it up. Tutorial includes file processing and DNS lookups for domains of email addresses. Also, docker-compose.yml is covered for local development.

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Kostja Palović

Using Celery task to generate data for a view

Learn how to use the Celery task to generate data for a Django view that is taking too long to respond.

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Kostja Palović

How to use JWT Authentication with Django

How to implement JWT Authentication with Django REST Framework, add logout views and invalidate all tokens for the current user.

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Kostja Palović

Django REST Framework and DataTable example

How to use DataTable ServerSide with Django REST Framework. How to display and filter a large dataset using ServerSide mode and achieve great performance.

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