Benoit Chesneau 17ac6a5254 examples: add celery_alternative example using dirty arbiters
Demonstrates replacing Celery with Gunicorn's dirty arbiters for
background task processing. Includes:

- 4 task workers: Email, Image, Data, Scheduled
- Stateful workers with persistent connections/caches
- Streaming progress for long-running tasks
- Per-app worker allocation
- Flask API with 15+ endpoints
- Docker deployment (single container vs Celery's 4+)
- Unit tests (19 tests) and integration tests
- Migration guide from Celery
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Gunicorn

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Gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX. It's a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. The Gunicorn server is broadly compatible with various web frameworks, simply implemented, light on server resource usage, and fairly speedy.

New in v25: Per-app worker allocation for dirty arbiters, HTTP/2 support (beta)!

Quick Start

pip install gunicorn
gunicorn myapp:app --workers 4

For ASGI applications (FastAPI, Starlette):

gunicorn myapp:app --worker-class asgi

Features

  • WSGI support for Django, Flask, Pyramid, and any WSGI framework
  • ASGI support (beta) for FastAPI, Starlette, Quart
  • HTTP/2 support (beta) with multiplexed streams
  • Dirty Arbiters for heavy workloads (ML models, long-running tasks)
  • uWSGI binary protocol for nginx integration
  • Multiple worker types: sync, gthread, gevent, eventlet, asgi
  • Graceful worker process management
  • Compatible with Python 3.9+

Documentation

Full documentation at https://gunicorn.org

Community

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License

Gunicorn is released under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

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