This article demystifies Celery, a Python tool for managing background tasks using message queues. It covers its architecture—transport, serialization, and workers—outlines concurrency models, task limits, and configurations. Learn about Celery Beat for scheduling, Result Backends for task outcomes, and Flower for monitoring. Perfect for both beginners and veterans, this guide offers practical examples and a link to a template repository for hands-on experience.

This blog recounts my personal journey through the contrasting roles of a hackathon event—first as a participant and later as a judge. I aim to be expressive with my language and incorporate some Gen Z Instagram terms to bring the story to life. I hope you enjoy this exploration of both sides of the hackathon experience.

Lambda Lambda can be deployed using .zip archive function container image with OCI or docker container image 📌 We can use reserved concurrency to limit the number of maximum concurrent invocations for your function.