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.
Dynamic Task Routing in Celery
Routing a task to a specialised worker via a dedicated queue is a powerful concept. To scale your application, you can take this idea to the next level and delegate the routing to a custom TaskRouter class.
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Task Routing in Celery
Dedicated Celery queues are a way to route a task to a dedicated worker. In this blog post I explain the basic concept of queues and how to configure Celery for a multi queue setup.
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Testing Celery Chains
Chains are fundamental building blocks in Celery workflows that go beyond single task execution. With great power comes great responsibility. And even greater need for testing - not only the parts but the entire chain.
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Unit Testing Celery Tasks
Unit testing asynchronous Celery code is not as straightforward as unit testing synchronous REST APIs. In this article I discuss three approaches to unit testing Celery tasks.
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