Re: Celery/Redis Django 2.0 Design Question

I think you are on the right track. I am doing something similar with photos and gps tracks uploaded by users and the celery/redis combo makes it easy to run a compute intensive task without blocking the site. I'm not sure if the celery-signals approach is strictly necessary, however. I am

Celery/Redis Django 2.0 Design Question

I am building a django 2.x site to: * upload documents (images, pdfs, and videos) * apply metadata to the documents (JSON metadata field) * transform the documents (thumbnails, OCR, language translations, image conversion, facial recognition, image blurring, etc.) based on some of the metadata