I have a small infrastructure plan that does not include Django. But, because of my experience with Django, I really like Celery. All I really need is Redis + Celery to make my project. Instead of using the local filesystem, I'd like to keep everything in Redis. My current architecture uses Redis for everything until it is ready to dump the results to AWS S3. Admittedly I don't have a great reason for using Redis instead of the filesystem. I've just invested so much into architecting this with Docker and scalability in mind, it feels wrong not to.

I was searching for a non-Django database scheduler too a while back, but it looked like there's nothing else. So I took the Django scheduler code and modified it to use SQLAlchemy. Should be even easier to make it use Redis instead.