The one data point I can offer is that beat scheduler is a must have for our tiny moonlighting-as-devops squad, and that integrates perfectly with the admin pan

The one data point I can offer is that beat scheduler is a must have for our tiny moonlighting-as-devops squad, and that integrates perfectly with the admin panel. So, in a word: Celery. This also allows django tasks to be fired from other clients (other than a direct web site visit), which permits us to author tasks that can be leveraged from other containers/app instances. Almost all CRUD ops are handled purely in the backend as like "not really django-like" implementations, which suits us perfectly - in case we want to pack up our things and move to a new framework.