Building testable Celery tasks

When designing a Python application with asynchronous message handling, you very quickly find a good case to implement Celery in your application. Over the years I've seen many tasks written within Celery, which is used for async handling of sending notifications, updating external resources or

Building testable Celery tasks

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When designing a Python application with asynchronous message handling, you very quickly find a good case to implement Celery in your application. Over the years I've seen many tasks written within Celery, which is used for async handling of sending notifications, updating external resources or