If you just need to send a set of emails once a week, the lowly cron job is fine. You don't need celerybeat. RQ or Huey are otherwise fine for anything more co

If you just need to send a set of emails once a week, the lowly cron job is fine. You don't need celerybeat. RQ or Huey are otherwise fine for anything more complicated. I've rarely run into a situation where Celery is better, but teams just use it because it's the "default".