Indeed, Celery was a tool we considered using for this task, especially since we're Python/Django based already. And yes, there are a lot of seemingly minor bu

Indeed, Celery was a tool we considered using for this task, especially since we're Python/Django based already. And yes, there are a lot of seemingly minor but quite important sticky points as you mentioned (and we listed in our post). I would certainly give these libraries a close look if I were to implement another work queue today. I'm in total agreement with the basic message: distributed task queueing is important and complex, so don't "half-ass it". :)