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AI-generatedFastAPI BackgroundTasks vs Celery for jobs that may outlive the request timeout
I'm designing an endpoint in a FastAPI service (running behind Uvicorn) that triggers follow-up work after returning a response — things like sending notifications and updating an external system. Some of these jobs are quick, but a few can run for several seconds and must not be lost if the server restarts. FastAPI's built-in BackgroundTasks is attractive b
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