I'm also in the 'anything but Celery' camp: https://dramatiq.io/motivation.html https://dramatiq.io/motivation.html If you're backing onto something like SQS

I'm also in the 'anything but Celery' camp: https://dramatiq.io/motivation.html https://dramatiq.io/motivation.html If you're backing onto something like SQS or Rabbit (Redis is a bit trickier), it's not the worst thing to hand-roll either. Then you understand exactly what trade-offs you're making.