If you have ever needed to send an email, process a payment, or generate a report without making your user wait, you have probably run into Celery. Celery is a tool that lets you run jobs in the background, away from your main app. This article breaks down how it works, step by step, in plain language.
What Is Celery, In Simple Terms
Think of Celery like a restaurant kitchen.
Your app (the waiter) takes an order from a customer.
Instead of cooking the food itself, the waiter drops the order into a queue (the kitchen order rail).
