Handling long running tasks in pika / RabbitMQ

Question

We\'re trying to set up a basic directed queue system where a producer will generate several tasks and one or more consumers will grab a task at a time, process it, and ackn

Answer 1

Please don't disable heartbeats!

As of Pika 0.12.0, please use the technique described in this example code to run your long-running task on a separate thread and then acknowledge the message from that thread.

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