I've managed to live without it. For low and medium traffic sites it's hugely over-engineered. For all the sites I manage, I run a single cron task that triggers a range of background jobs. It's an approach worked very well for nearly 10 years.
I understand there's a genuine use-case for Celery but like many technologies people are told "if you need a task queue use this" when there are much simpler solutions that are more than good enough for most.
I understand there's a genuine use-case for Celery but like many technologies people are told "if you need a task queue use this" when there are much simpler solutions that are more than good enough for most.