Speed Up Tenant Onboarding in Django Using Celery & Redis
In this video, I’ll show you how I used Celery and Redis to run tenant onboarding tasks asynchronously in my Django multi-tenant SaaS app, hosted on Heroku.
From creating tenant schemas to sending welcome emails and SMS messages, onboarding is now handled in the background — boosting performance and improving user experience.
Whether you're building a Django SaaS using django-tenants or looking to scale efficiently on Heroku, this video walks you through the core logic, performance improvements, and deployment tips to run Celery workers in production.
🔧 What You'll Learn:
How I set up Celery and Redis in a Django SaaS
Triggering background tasks for tenant onboarding
Running Celery workers on Heroku
Handling async email/SMS notifications during onboarding
Real-world multi-tenant onboarding example
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