celery是一个异步任务队列/基于分布式消息传递的作业队列。它侧重于实时操作，但对调度支持也很好。

celery用于生产系统每天处理数以百万计的任务。

celery是用Python编写的，但该协议可以在任何语言实现。它也可以与其他语言通过webhooks实现。

建议的消息代理RabbitMQ的，但提供有限支持Redis, Beanstalk, MongoDB, CouchDB, ，和数据库（使用SQLAlchemy的或Django的 ORM） 。

Celery is...

• Simple

  Celery is easy to use and maintain, and does not need configuration files.

  It has an active, friendly community you can talk to for support, including a mailing-list and and an IRC channel.

  Here's one of the simplest applications you can make:

  from celery import Celery    celery = Celery('hello', broker='amqp://guest@localhost//')    @celery.task  def hello():      return 'hello world'

• Highly Available

  Workers and clients will automatically retry in the event of connection loss or failure, and some brokers support HA in way of Master/Master or Master/Slave replication.

• Fast

  A single Celery process can process millions of tasks a minute, with sub-millisecond round-trip latency (using RabbitMQ, py-librabbitmq, and optimized settings).

• Flexible

  Almost every part of Celery can be extended or used on its own, Custom pool implementations, serializers, compression schemes, logging, schedulers, consumers, producers, autoscalers, broker transports and much more.