A fast and reliable background task processing library for Python 3.
Task processing over RabbitMQ or Redis, with retries and middleware.
alternatives to
Celery
Distributed Task Queue (development branch)
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a little task queue for python
A small task queue over Redis, SQLite or memory, with periodic tasks.
Fast job queuing and RPC in python with asyncio and redis.
Async jobs for asyncio code, over Redis only.
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About Celery
- Language
- Python
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- 29k
- Last push
- 2026-10-06