Celery is a distributed task queue system for Python that handles asynchronous job processing, scheduling, and message passing, often used with web frameworks like Django.. There are currently 4 open-source alternatives to Celery, with a combined total of 30.5k GitHub stars. The most common language among these projects is Python.
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A simple Python library for queueing jobs and processing them in the background with workers, backed by Redis/Valkey.
A .NET library for background job processing with fire-and-forget, delayed, and recurring tasks, no Windows Service required.
A durable background task queue and workflow orchestration platform built on Postgres with observability and flow control.
A Java library for easy, reliable background job processing with persistent storage, using Java 8 lambdas.
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