Answer
Use Celery or RQ for background tasks.
Async endpoints prevent blocking.
Improves responsiveness for heavy workloads.
Async endpoints prevent blocking.
Improves responsiveness for heavy workloads.
Quick Answer
Async tasks in web frameworks: Celery is the standard for background task queues (Redis or RabbitMQ as broker). Django-Q and Huey are lighter alternatives. FastAPI: BackgroundTasks for quick tasks, Celery for heavyweight. Pattern: API returns immediately with a task ID, client polls for result. Use for: email sending, image processing, PDF generation, long-running computations.
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