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Asked: 2026-05-23T14:14:57+00:00

I have several view functions that process data from remote sources. In many cases

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I have several view functions that process data from remote sources. In many cases this processing can take over a second to complete. Will simultaneous access to these view functions potentially scramble my data?

In addition, I will have a continually-running background thread that will be populating my database. This background thread will be calling some of the same library functions that my view functions will be calling. Is this a potential thread-safety issue?

If yes, what are the best practices? I’m assuming just using python’s locking mechanism will work, but are there better approaches?

Thanks!

-Travis

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  1. Editorial Team

    For long running processes, use Celery.

    For a long view, you can create a model instance, and start a celery task which populates it. A view can show the status of this instance, with self refreshing html until the results are there.

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