Set up a scheduled job?

Question

I\'ve been working on a web app using Django, and I\'m curious if there is a way to schedule a job to run periodically.

Basically I just want to run through the dat

Answer 1

Celery is a distributed task queue, built on AMQP (RabbitMQ). It also handles periodic tasks in a cron-like fashion (see periodic tasks). Depending on your app, it might be worth a gander.

Celery is pretty easy to set up with django (docs), and periodic tasks will actually skip missed tasks in case of a downtime. Celery also has built-in retry mechanisms, in case a task fails.