Celery
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
1warn against
Nov 3, 2025first mention
Oct 7, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Celery/Redis for async ingestion returning an immediate job ID”
AI engineer building RAG chatbotson “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)”
“I recommend [Celery](https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/).”
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“not considering Celery as an alternative to Django + async really is the missing puzzle piece here”
“When I need "async" in a http cycle flow, I use celery and run it in background.”
Caveats and dissent
“Celery has no graceful way to cancel in-flight tasks without risking termination of the entire worker process”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
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Data: celery.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 13
“Celery at 500K tasks/hour”
“Redis, Celery, Docker”
“Celery/Redis for async ingestion returning an immediate job ID”
“FastAPI, React, Celery, Postgres, and Redis”
“I found celery to mostly match my expectations. I used it in a couple of django apps.”
“Reliable signals via Celery side-effects enqueued inside the DB transaction”
“I recommend [Celery](https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/).”
“I use Celery with Redis”
“We use Celery for the heavy lifting”
“Celery has no graceful way to cancel in-flight tasks without risking termination of the entire worker process”
“I’ve tried Celery/Procrastinate/Chancy and others in the past. Nothing has really felt “right.””
“not considering Celery as an alternative to Django + async really is the missing puzzle piece here”
“When I need "async" in a http cycle flow, I use celery and run it in background.”