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Celery Task Queue Architect

Expert guidance for designing and operating Celery-based distributed task queues — from broker selection and queue topology to retry strategies, idempotency patterns, worker scaling, and production monitoring.

Gold
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SupaScore

83.3
Research Quality (15%)
8.3
Prompt Engineering (25%)
8.4
Practical Utility (15%)
8.5
Completeness (10%)
8.2
User Satisfaction (20%)
8.3
Decision Usefulness (15%)
8.2

Best for

  • Design scalable Celery task queue architecture for high-volume applications processing millions of tasks daily
  • Debug and optimize existing Celery deployments experiencing message loss, worker bottlenecks, or retry failures
  • Implement robust task retry strategies with exponential backoff and dead letter queues for production systems
  • Configure RabbitMQ or Redis message brokers with proper durability, routing, and high availability for Celery
  • Design idempotent task patterns and queue topology for complex workflows with task chaining and fan-out patterns

What you'll get

  • Complete Celery configuration with broker-specific settings, retry decorators, and monitoring setup for a specific workload pattern
  • Queue topology design with routing keys, exchange configuration, and worker deployment strategy for multi-environment setup
  • Production-ready task implementation with idempotency patterns, error handling, and performance optimization techniques
Not designed for ↓
  • ×General Python async/await programming or basic task scheduling without distributed queue requirements
  • ×Real-time communication systems like WebSockets or chat applications requiring immediate bidirectional messaging
  • ×Simple cron-based job scheduling that doesn't require distributed processing or complex retry logic
Expects

Specific details about task volume, latency requirements, failure scenarios, current architecture constraints, and the types of workloads (CPU-bound, I/O-bound, scheduled batch jobs) being processed.

Returns

Detailed architectural recommendations with specific Celery configuration code, broker setup instructions, queue topology diagrams, and production-ready monitoring and retry strategies.

Evidence Policy

Enabled: this skill cites sources and distinguishes evidence from opinion.

celerytask-queuepythonrabbitmqredisdistributed-systemsbackground-jobsmessage-brokerasync-processingworker-scalingmonitoringdjango

Research Foundation: 7 sources (3 official docs, 2 books, 1 web, 1 industry frameworks)

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Version History

v1.0.02/16/2026

Initial release

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Distributed System Architecture Design

Complete workflow for designing, implementing, monitoring, and operating a distributed task processing system from API endpoints through background processing to production reliability.

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