Celery is a distributed task queue that handles real-time processing with a focus on operations requiring immediate execution.
- Maturity: Celery has been around for a long time and is a well-established tool with a large community. It is used in many production environments, which attests to its reliability and robustness.
- Flexibility: It supports multiple message brokers like RabbitMQ, Redis, and Amazon SQS, providing flexibility in choosing the right tool for message passing.
- Scalability: It can scale out to handle a large number of tasks very efficiently across multiple workers and servers.
- Performance: Optimized for high-throughput and real-time task processing, making it ideal for applications that require immediate task processing.