Celery is a simple, flexible and reliable distributed system to process vast amounts of messages, while providing operations with the tools required to maintain such a system.
It's a task queue with focus on real-time processing, while also supporting task scheduling.
Celery has a large and diverse community of users and contributors, you should come join us :ref:`on IRC <irc-channel>` or :ref:`our mailing-list <mailing-list>`.
Celery is Open Source and licensed under the BSD License.
- If you are new to Celery you can get started by following the :ref:`first-steps` tutorial.
- You can also check out the :ref:`FAQ <faq>`.
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