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Celery: Distributed Task Queue vs StatsD

A side-by-side look at Celery: Distributed Task Queue and StatsD. 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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StatsD

StatsD

Network & Admin

StatsD is a network daemon for statistics aggregation and metric tracking. It listens for metrics over UDP or TCP, aggregates the metrics, and flushes them to backend services like Graphite.

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