[andybak]

I'm not saying Celery is over-engineered in general. It's just over-engineered in the context I've often seen it recommended in. i.e. for people learning or people with fairly modest requirements.

[collyw]

Yep, I first asked on Stack overflow the best way to achieve a background task in a Django app, and the answers all said Celery. Considering it got run around once a week, it was a very over engineered solution I ended up with.

Its useful to know Celery, and gets used in a proper context in my current work, so I guess learning it wasn't a waste.