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django.tasks exists was first seen on Lobsters · Hottest on Oct 30, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 1 check on 1 different day. Its best position was #1 of 25, reached on Oct 30, 10:19 UTC. It dropped off the list after Oct 30, 10:19 UTC.
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Why is that terrible in practice ? Did you try ? At work we use [procrastinate](https://github.com/procrastinate-org/procrastinate) in our Django backends which uses PostgreSQL as a broker and it works like charm. We replaced celery/celery-beat everywhere and I would never go back: - it plays well with you ongoing DB…
Strongly disagree. PostgreSQL is an excellent message queue for the vast majority of applications. It's also designed for this - that's [what "for update skip locked" is for](https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/E1XbbM1-00049u-MR%40gemulon.postgresql.org). Using the database as a queue also solves one of the most…
[The DEP](https://github.com/django/deps/blob/main/accepted/0014-background-workers.rst) is a more detailed description of what's going on. The goal is to provide a layer in Django that abstracts a task queue the same way that, say, the ORM abstracts your database. The primary focus of the DEP is to let you define…
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