Caesar 🍹

Flask web server that handles "heavy" tasks asynchronously via Celery.

Why did you make this?

Another project I was working on needed to be able to crunch a bunch of data, and email a report out. Requests to the route using this function were sluggish, so I wanted to implement a task-queue in Flask, and this was the easiest solution I found.

When would you want this?

1. When dealing with mass email sends / a high volume of singular email sends
2. When doing large multi-step operations like deleting a large number of records or preparing a data export
3. etc, etc, etc.

Getting Started

There are a few things you're going to have to do regardless of if you're running the app in production, or development mode.

1. create a .env file in the root directory, and set the REDIS_PASS value (see .env.example)
2. run docker-compose build to build everything

Development Mode

Run the command docker-compose up caesar_dev redis, this will start the dev server, and a redis cache

Production Mode

Run the command docker-compose up caesar_prod redis, this will start the prod server, and a redis cache.

Questions?

create an issue!