Hi 👋, I'm Bjoern Stiel
I'm a Celery task queue specialist and domain expert for Python trading applications (think hedge funds). I'm a consultant, developer and educator. I write for Python developers who got sucked into the Celery queue and want to understand their way out.
Celery Configuration with Environment Variables
My preferred way to configure an app is via environment variables. Unfortunately, this is where Celery is a bit of a mess. Here is an alternative approach I have been tossing around.
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Docker Healthcheck for Celery Workers
How to make Docker check and report on a Celery worker node's health status.
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Auto-reload Celery on code changes
How to improve your Celery developer experience with automatic restarts on code changes.
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Kubernetes for Python Developers: Part 1
A Kubernetes tutorial for Python developers.
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Celery on Docker: From the Ground up
A Docker tutorial for beginners
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Quick Guide: Custom Celery Task Logger
How to customise the Celery task logger
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Celery Execution Pools: What is it all about?
An introduction to prefork, solo, eventlet and gevent
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Monitoring a Dockerized Celery Cluster with Flower
How to set up Flower in a Docker cluster
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Celery, docker and the missing startup banner
Where did the Celery startup screen go?
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Custom Celery task states
Celery tasks are guaranteed to have a state. In this article, I explain the built-in task states and their meaning. And I show you how to leverage this concept to enrich tasks with your own custom state.
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