Creating and running asynchronous tasks

We’ll continue the development of our Django microservices application by building the actual microservices for matching addresses and sending emails, which will run as asynchronous tasks called by the Django subscription app. This is where the Django app and microservices sit in the overview of the application:

Figure 6.7 – The position of the app and microservices in the sample application

The Django subscription app will display a form where users subscribe and enter their addresses. When the user finishes entering, the app offloads a task to match the entered address to existing base addresses to a microservice. This microservice utilizes our RESTful API to retrieve all addresses and add a new address, and it offloads the task of sending a confirmation email to another microservice.

Important note

In our sample application, one microservice will offload a task to another microservice. If we...