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Life & fun · November 12, 2017

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Dramatiq – An alternative to Celery

Dramatiq – An alternative to Celery launched on November 12, 2017 with 53 votes, #810 of 3,137 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

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Dramatiq is a Python library for processing background tasks, designed as an alternative to Celery. It enables developers to define tasks as actors that can run either synchronously in the current process or asynchronously in separate processes. The library prioritizes simplicity, reliability, and performance, allowing tasks like web requests and data processing to be executed without blocking the main application. It's suitable for Python developers needing background job handling.

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From the sources

Release v2.2.0. ( Installation , Changelog , Discuss , Source Code ) Dramatiq is a background task processing library for Python with a focus on simplicity, reliability and performance. import dramatiq import requests @dramatiq . actor def count_words ( url ): response = requests . get ( url ) count = len ( response . text . split ( " " )) print ( f "There are { count } words at { url !r} ." ) # Synchronously count the words on example.com in the current process count_words ( "http://example.com" ) # or send the actor a message so that it may perform the count # later, in a separate process. count_words . send ( "http://example.com" ) Dramatiq is licensed under the LGPL and it officially…from dramatiq.io

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