[mark_story]

I've had good experiences using celery-beat to replace crond. It lets you use all the good parts of celery without much work. http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/userguide/periodic-t...

[deizel]

Ditto, especially in combination with Python/Django, as used by Nextdoor. Ironically, they had already removed Celery from their stack a few years prior. https://engblog.nextdoor.com/nextdoor-taskworker-simple-effi...