Celery is an open source asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. it is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.

django-celery provides celery integration for django using the django orm and cache backend for storing results, autodiscovery of task modules for applications listed in installed_apps, and integration of task monitoring through the django admin interface.

using it in a django project provides a way to distribute asynchronous tasks like sending emails or batch-processing larger datasets to one or more separate worker nodes.

this package contains the documentation.