great post! this is what I wish I had as a starting point when I was learning how to get web apps to do work smarter rather than diving straight into celery documentation cause someone told me that would be the way to go!
Thanks! That's exactly why I am writing this series. I plan to take people slowly through everything about asynchronous processing, message queues, handling job processing, etc. Message queues are underused in modern web apps, and I think also not understood as well as they should be. Planning to include plenty of diagrams along the way to help with that.