procrastinate-org/procrastinate

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Procrastinate is a Python distributed task processing library that uses PostgreSQL as its task queue backend, supporting both sync and async code. It handles task deferral, scheduling, periodic tasks, retries, and locking, with Django integration and ASGI framework support.

Use cases

• run background jobs from a Python web app
• schedule periodic tasks with PostgreSQL
• defer expensive work out of request handlers
• process tasks asynchronously with async Python
• retry failed jobs automatically
• queue tasks in Django without Redis or RabbitMQ

When to choose

• you already run PostgreSQL and want a task queue without extra infrastructure
• you need both sync and async task processing in Python
• you use Django or ASGI frameworks and want easy integration
• you need periodic tasks, retries, or task locking

When to avoid

• you don't use PostgreSQL and can't add it
• you need extremely high throughput beyond what Postgres-based queues handle
• you prefer broker-based queues like RabbitMQ, Redis, or Kafka
• you're not working in Python

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message-queue scheduling workflow-automation concurrency backend databases developer-tools python cross-platform task-queue postgresql background-jobs async django distributed-tasks periodic-tasks retries automation

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