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Yeah, that was my issue. Seemed like a ridiculous amount of stuff just to process a few jobs once a day in the background. Eventually I found django-background-tasks and have bene using that ever since. It uses whatever database you're already using, so very quick and easy.

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At a glance, https://github.com/lilspikey/django-background-task indeed seems like a good and easy way to get started. You can later switch to something more specialized once you hit the right scale or when you need more sophisticated features.

Just FYI, this fork is updated https://github.com/arteria/django-background-tasks

Yep. That's the solution I've been recommending over Celery for most people.

Half the time people seem to reach for Celery etc all they want to do is run a long task without blocking the response. That's a helleva lot of code to add to your project to just have that functionality.

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