How to make your Celery tasks more resilient with best practices to prevent workflow interruptions and handle various failure scenarios.
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Let's face it: tasks and celery aren't exactly a match made in heaven. One's a boring to-do list, and the other's that sad, stringy vegetable sitting in your fridge drawer, probably plotting its revenge against your next salad.
But in our beloved programmatic world, these unlikely partners team up to handle some of our most critical background jobs. And just like its vegetable namesake, when a Celery task goes bad, it can leave a pretty unpleasant taste in your mouth.
At GitGuardian, we depend on Celery to do some pretty heavy lifting—like scanning GitHub pull requests for secrets. When those tasks fail, it’s not just an “oops moment.” A stuck PR can grind our users’ workflows to a halt, which is about as fun as debugging a failing build five minutes before your weekend starts.