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Celery
Mature, battle-tested distributed task queue for Python that dispatches agent tasks across worker fleets using Redis or RabbitMQ as message brokers. Supports real-time task execution, periodic scheduled tasks, retry policies, task chaining, and priority queues. Widely used in Django and FastAPI agent backends to handle async LLM calls, data processing, and background automation at scale. BSD-licensed and free.
Viable option — review the tradeoffs
You need to dispatch agent tasks like async LLM calls and data processing across multiple workers without blocking your FastAPI or Django backend.
Battle-tested reliability for 1000s of tasks; expect config tuning for memory/concurrency; workers can OOM without max_tasks_per_child limits.
You want scheduled background automation and complex workflows like task chains or bulk processing for agent fleets.
Solid for production workflows; monitor with Flower; quirks include result backend bloat without TTL tuning.
Steep operational complexity
Requires managing broker (Redis/RabbitMQ), workers, beat scheduler, and monitoring; not 'plug and scale' like serverless queues.
Redis or RabbitMQ broker
Celery needs a persistent message broker for task distribution; Redis simpler for starters, RabbitMQ for high durability.
Worker memory leaks
Long-running workers leak memory on heavy tasks; set worker_max_tasks_per_child=1000 and worker_max_memory_per_child=200000 to auto-restart.
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What It Actually Does
Celery lets you queue up background jobs in Python apps and run them across multiple worker servers using Redis or RabbitMQ. It handles retries, priorities, scheduling, and task chains so heavy work doesn't slow your main app.
Mature, battle-tested distributed task queue for Python that dispatches agent tasks across worker fleets using Redis or RabbitMQ as message brokers. Supports real-time task execution, periodic scheduled tasks, retry policies, task chaining, and priority queues. Widely used in Django and FastAPI agent backends to handle async LLM calls, data processing, and background automation at scale.
BSD-licensed and free.
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Best for
- ✓scheduling
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Governance
- task-signing
- secure-serialization
- tls-transport