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Celery: Distributed Task Queue vs eventlet

A side-by-side look at Celery: Distributed Task Queue and eventlet. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Celery: Distributed Task Queue

Celery: Distributed Task Queue

Development

Celery is an open source Python library for handling asynchronous tasks and job queues. It allows defining tasks that can be executed asynchronously, monitoring them, and getting notified when they are finished. Celery supports scheduling tasks and integrating with a variety of services.

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eventlet

eventlet

Development

Eventlet is a concurrent networking library for Python that allows developers to easily write highly scalable servers. It uses green threads to provide asynchronous I/O without having to deal with callback functions or program complexity.

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