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You will have to keep Celery for the foreseeable future. The current implementation is just a stub which provides a unified interface for some future backends.

Background tasks production backend is unfortunately the battery that is not included.

Meanwhile, Huey works just fine: https://huey.readthedocs.io/en/latest/django.html

I remember huey! Glad to see leifer is still maintaining it. I liked it way back when it first came out, was a breathe of fresh air compared to celery

Try RQ.