When to Use Google App Engine Task Queue? You should use task queue when you try to do something taking time such as storing or updating bunch of data to datastore. In Google App Engine, a http request which isn't returned by timeout should be simply failed. The timeout configured on Google App Engine is 60 seconds. Please see https://developers.google.com/appengine/articles/deadlineexceedederrors . So in order to response back to the client quickly, you should use Task Queue for tasks which takes long time. Push Tasks to Task Queue I have read an official document of Task Queue and tried to use it. What frustrates me is the document only explains how to create a task with parameters, push the task to the task queue and pass to the worker servlet. i.e. actual heavy part is treated in the worker servlet. Of course it is fine, but I felt it was a bit indirect way to push tasks to queue. What I desired to do is creating task object and pushing it to the queue in one single
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