I think the article and some of the comments are not really looking at this the right way. For most things you're probably better off "doing the work" in a ce

I think the article and some of the comments are not really looking at this the right way. For most things you're probably better off "doing the work" in a celery task, regardless if it is IO bound or CPU bound. Then use web sockets just for your status updates/progress bar, instead of having your front end poll on a timer.