I also warmly recommend procrastinate !

We moved all our celery tasks to procrastinate at work for all our django backends since almost two years now and it has been great.

Having tasks deferred in the same transaction as the business logic stuff is something that helped us a lot to improve consistency and debugability. Moreover, it's so nice to able to inspect what's going on by just querying our database or just looking at the django admin.

For those wondering, procrastinate has no built-in alternative to django-celery-beat, but you can easily build your own in a day: no need for an extra dependency for this :)