Considering Celery is already a part of the stack to run task queues (i.e. it is not being added just for running crons, that seems an overkill IMHO ).
How can its "periodic tasks" feature be beneficial as a replacement for crontab ? Specifically looking for following points.
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for queing django tasks.I've been using cron for a production website, and have switched to celery on a current project. I'm far more into celery than cron, here is why: