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Log Blog Kebab
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Log Blog Kebab is a personal blog at steve.dignam.xyz about programming and data. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “The Many Problems with Celery”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Covers the problems with Python's Celery task queue. HN threads on Python task queues and Django cite it as the source for those problems, alongside alternatives like Dramatiq, RQ and Huey.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog about software and everything that goes with it. Ideally informative.
Most-linked posts?
- The Many Problems with Celery4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-05-21
What Hacker News says?
> The Many Problems with Celery: — https://steve.dignam.xyz/2023/05/20/many-problems-with-celer... > The problems with (Python’s) Celery: — https://docs.hatchet.run/blog/problems-with-celery > Dramatiq motivation: — https://dramatiq.io/motivation.html Here are some alternatives: Dramatiq: https://github.com/Bogdanp/dramatiq RQ: https://github.com/rq/rq Huey: https://github.com/coleifer/huey Hatchet: https://github.c…
Comment linking /2023/05/20/many-problems-with-celery/
on “Django: what’s new in 6.0”Submitted Interesting Bits of Postgres Grammar as a story · 72 points
HN discussionDjango-tasks seems to be moving very slowly, it doesn't have database indexes yet. If you look at the problems with Celery: https://steve.dignam.xyz/2023/05/20/many-problems-with-celer... and the complicated compatibility matrix https://docs.celeryq.dev/projects/kombu/en/main/introduction... , task queues are still a pain point.
Comment linking /2023/05/20/many-problems-with-celery/
on “Plain – a web framework for building products with Python”Submitted HTTP Timeouts as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMany Temporal users used Celery in the past. There was a popular blog post a while back about issues with celery: https://steve.dignam.xyz/2023/05/20/many-problems-with-celer... . Here's a brief heading-by-heading listing of how Temporal addresses those issues: https://community.temporal.io/t/suggestion-for-blog-post-abo... . (disclaimer, I'm the author of the post)
Comment linking /2023/05/20/many-problems-with-celery/
on “Temporal Python – A durable, distributed asyncio event loop (2023)”Submitted Zero to Connection String as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Node.js' HTTP server gets wrong as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Surprises in Postgres SQL as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sync to Async Python for Speed as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beware of Array Spread as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postgres Column Naming as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Many Problems with Celery as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted User Defined Ordering Made Easy as a story · 1 points
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