rq is a library in this spirit, so if you're looking for something very simple, written in python, and using redis as a broker, I think rq is it. And if you ju

rq is a library in this spirit, so if you're looking for something very simple, written in python, and using redis as a broker, I think rq is it. And if you just want a simple broker that does the right thing, take a look at beanstalkd - I built a system to mimic GAE's queues awhile back and beanstalkd was very nice -- designed in spirit of memcached where it has a very simple api and aims to do one thing well.