If anyone is looking for another Celery post that goes over common web development use cases for using Celery there's: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/4-use-case

If anyone is looking for another Celery post that goes over common web development use cases for using Celery there's: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/4-use-cases-for-when-to-use-celery-in-a-flask-application https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/4-use-cases-for-when-to-use-c... The above post walks through sending emails out with and without using Celery, making third party API calls, executing long running tasks and firing off periodic tasks on a schedule to replace cron jobs. There's links to code examples too in an example Flask app which happens to use Docker as well.