Understanding Celery & CeleryBeat [EuroPython 2017 - Talk - 2017-07-10 - Arengo] [Rimini, Italy] Celery is a distributed task queue for Python. Although it is most popular in the web development ecosystem, it has a wide area of usage from system management to IoT devices. With Celery, transforming a function into a task is quite easy and can add great performance & usability to the applications that we build. This talk aims to give attendants a general overview on Celery and its uses. We will walk through the core Celery architecture by introducing key components with the help of various real-world examples. This will also lead to an understanding of the task queue systems in general. Attendants will also gain knowledge about Celerybeat; a tool that focuses on scheduling tasks. We will be looking for the answers to the following questions: What is a distributed task queue? What are the main elements of Celery? When should we use Celery tasks? How do we use Celery Beat? Attendants should have a basic knowledge of Python, and a minor development experience