Research Throttling or Putting API Requests in a Queue

[tmpayton]

What we’re after

One way to alleviate traffic would be to delay some requests from getting to the database. We should research if we can throttle or queue requests using redis and/or celery.

Note: this will probably be a heavy lift.

Action item(s)

(These are the smaller tasks that should happen in order to complete this work)

• Research using redis and/pr celery to throttle or queue API requests

Completion criteria

(What does the end state look like - as long as this task(s) is done, this work is complete)

• Research and next steps are documented

References/resources/technical considerations

https://realpython.com/flask-by-example-implementing-a-redis-task-queue/