A simple setup illustrating redis-queue based background task processing in Python. Supports heroku.

Files

• app.py: File that defines some API resources.
• Procfile: For heroku
• tasks.py: A file that consists of some tasks (simple python functions) that we want to be queued.
• worker.py: The redis queue worker node.
• interface.py: Contains functions that you can use to interact with the queue.

Instructions for heroku

• Add worker: python -u worker.py to your Procfile.
• Add the redistogo addon from CLI

$ heroku addons:create redistogo

• Start one worker dyno heroku scale worker=1
• Deploy and should be good to go.

Demo available at background-queue.herokuapp.com/