I have used Gearman for a long time and I like it a lot, very simple to use, lightweight, does its job and doesn't get in the way. It's one of the few cases where something literally just works.

If one would just want a job queue to fanout jobs in a network transparent fashion, would moving to Celery provide any advantages? With regard to Celery's broker, which is most preferable, Redis or RabbitMQ?