async-django

Using Django Q for asynchronous tasks in your Django Application - Basic

Setup

1. Clone this repo

2. Create Virtual Environment and install requirements

    pip install virtualenv
    virtualenv venv
    source venv/bin/activate
    pip intall -r requirements.txt
   

3. Login to heroku and get free heroku redis addon

    heroku login
    heroku create --addons=heroku-redis
    heroku config:get REDIS_URL
    
    Now you will get a REDIS_URL
   

4. Pass REDIS_URL as environment variable

    export REDIS_URL='redis://your_redis_url
   

5. Modify Django Q configuration in settings.py file if required

     Q_CLUSTER = {
        'name': 'your_project_name',
        'workers': 8,
        'recycle': 500,
        'timeout': 60,
        'compress': True,
        'save_limit': 250,
        'queue_limit': 500,
        'cpu_affinity': 1,
        'label': 'Django Q',
        'redis': os.environ.get('REDIS_URL')
      }
   

6. Run servers

    python manage.py migrate
   
    python manage.py qcluster
   

7. Notice the logs in both the servers and you will find the tasks getting executed asynchronously.

8. Redis database which is used as cache, holds all the tasks in a queue and then executes it.