Differing Celery recommendations

[andrewtmendoza]

Location within the Book

• Chapter: 25 | Asynchronous Task Queues
• Section: 25.2 Choosing Task Queue Software

Celery - use for high or low volume projects?

In the table describing different task queue options, the Pros for Celery are:

A Django and Python standard,
many different storage types,
flexible, full-featured, great for
high volume

Two paragraphs down, however, the first bullet reads:

If you have a good amount of Celery experience and are comfortable with it, then by all means
use it for small volume or toy projects.

I could be interpreting this wrong, but it seems like Celery is first recommended for high volume and later for small volume.

Thanks for writing such a great book!

[natecox]

I think the intent here is that while Celery is delightfully powerful it's probably a bit overkill for your average todo app unless the boilerplate is in your blood; but, I could be wrong.