Background process in GAE

Question

I am developing a website using Google App Engine and Django 1.0 (app-engine-patch)

A major part of my program has to run in the background and change local data and also post to a remote URL

Can someone suggest an effective way of doing this?

Answer 1

Check out The Task Queue Python API.

Answer 2

Without using a third-party system, I think currently your only option is to use the cron functionality.

You'd still be bound by the usual GAE script-execution-time limitations, but it wouldn't happen on a page load.

There is plans for background processing, see this App Engine issue #6, and this roadmap update