Distributed task queue
What is Celery?
Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.
Celery is a tool in the Message Queue category of a tech stack.
Celery is an open source tool with 12.4K Github Stars and 3.25K Github Forks. Here’s a link to Celery's open source repository on Github
Who Uses Celery?
267 companies use Celery including Udemy, Sentry, and AppScale Systems.
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Why people like Celery
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Celery's alternatives
- RabbitMQ - RabbitMQ is a messaging broker - an intermediary for messaging
- Kafka - Distributed, fault tolerant, high throughput pub-sub messaging system
- Amazon SQS - Fully managed message queuing service
- ActiveMQ - A message broker written in Java together with a full JMS client
- ZeroMQ - Fast, lightweight messaging library that allows you to design complex communication system without much effort
