From fcb619502d15afcf03c999aad88be280fbf7b226 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Donne Martin Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 20:41:48 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Add Task queues section --- README.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 190dd92..c1a5cc7 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1422,3 +1422,9 @@ The user is not blocked and the job is processed in the background. During this **RabbitMQ** is popular but requires you to adapt to the 'AMQP' protocol and manage your own nodes. **Amazon SQS**, is hosted but can have high latency and has the possibility of messages being delivered twice. + +### Task queues + +Tasks queues receive tasks and their related data, runs them, then delivers their results. They can support scheduling and can be used to run computationally-intensive jobs in the background. + +**Celery** has support for scheduling and primarily has python support.