Django VTasks is a faster and asyncio-friendly django.tasks extension supporting ORM and valkey/redis backends. Scheduler, unique, batch, and prioritize tasks embedded in your ASGI app or as a standalone worker.

4x faster than celery. I made this because I wanted a more ergonomic and faster task framework for GlitchTip.

Announcing a project I've been working on. django-vcache is an asyncio-friendly and fast Django cache backend for Valkey/Redis. Uses the Rust redis crate and a Python bridge to achieve high performance. Let me know what questions you have about it.

I built django-vtasks to replace Celery (task queue) in my open source project, GlitchTip. I wanted something with an asyncio-first approach that supports Valkey and Postgres backends. Sync tasks run in threads. We don't support every Celery broker and feature, but I think we have a good feature set and we outperform Celery in benchmarks. Being able to run my_task.aenqueue() is friendlier than doing this in Celery from an async view. It allows for a true asyncio valkey call, not sync_to_async. I found django-tasks not performant enough, as I need high concurrency. (As I understand, Django Tasks is modeled off of that project, so thank you to django-tasks folks). If this sounds useful, give it a try. Or better yet, submit a bug report or merge request.

GlitchTip is an open source error and uptime monitoring tool. We added experimental support for Postgres-only mode - no valkey/redis needed. We have an all-in-one script (also experimental) to embed celery and web as one process. Together, this gets the memory requirements quite low. It's a core goal of mine to ensure GlitchTip is as easy to host as possible. Report any issues. I'd love to know any feature requests related to self-hosting too.