If "something like celery built in" means a tool that runs Django as a network service in a concurrent context, with APIs to allow asynchronous processing of ta

If "something like celery built in" means a tool that runs Django as a network service in a concurrent context, with APIs to allow asynchronous processing of tasks, you might want hendrix, which serves Django on Twisted: https://github.com/hendrix/hendrix https://github.com/hendrix/hendrix (Others have pointed to django-channels, for which hendrix may eventually evolve into a backend)