Handling a high volume of concurrent requests in a Django application with Celery for background tasks can be challenging. This guide will walk you through the necessary steps to optimize your setup for better performance and scalability.
By default, Gunicorn with Django and Celery uses synchronous workers to handle web requests and background tasks. This means:
- Gunicorn: Uses sync workers which can handle one request at a time per worker.
- Celery: Processes tasks synchronously within each worker.