>While celery is quite useful, I just want to spin up an application and have it Just Work without external dependencies. With celery, now I have to run celeryd

>While celery is quite useful, I just want to spin up an application and have it Just Work without external dependencies. With celery, now I have to run celeryd, run some sort of queue (redis, rabbitmq, etc), and just worry about all of these pieces simply to execute long-running background tasks. You can use redis as a backend for celery (which you should be using already for caching, probably), and AFAIK you can use a database as a backend too (although I haven't tried it). That means that celery is exactly one dependency. You need some kind of persistent store so that it can recover the task queue from hardware failure. But it can probably use the backend you already have.