CeleRS - Enterprise Distributed Task Queue for Rust

🎉 100% COMPLETE - ALL 18/18 CRATES IMPLEMENTED! 🎉

CeleRS (Celery + Rust) is a production-ready, Celery-compatible distributed task queue library for Rust. Built from the ground up to provide binary-level protocol compatibility with Python Celery while delivering superior performance, type safety, and reliability.

Status: ✅ Production-Ready | ✅ 0 Errors | ✅ 0 Warnings | ✅ 5 Brokers | ✅ 3 Backends

🎯 Vision

CeleRS aims to be the definitive task queue solution for Rust, offering:

• 🔄 Celery Compatibility: Drop-in replacement for Python Celery workers
• ⚡ Performance: 10x throughput compared to Python Celery
• 🔒 Type Safety: Compile-time guarantees for task signatures
• 🏢 Enterprise-Ready: Battle-tested patterns for production deployments
• 🌐 Multi-Language: Interoperate with Python, JavaScript, and other Celery clients

✨ Features

Core Capabilities

• ✅ Type-Safe Task Definitions: Compile-time verified task signatures
• ✅ Priority Queues: Multi-level task prioritization
• ✅ Dead Letter Queue: Automatic handling of permanently failed tasks
• ✅ Task Cancellation: In-flight task cancellation via Pub/Sub
• ✅ Retry Logic: Exponential backoff with configurable max retries
• ✅ Timeout Enforcement: Task-level and worker-level timeout controls
• ✅ Graceful Shutdown: Clean worker termination with in-flight task completion

Broker Support (5 Types)

• ✅ Redis: High-throughput with Lua scripts and pipelining
• ✅ PostgreSQL: ACID guarantees with FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED
• ✅ MySQL: Full SQL support with batch operations
• ✅ RabbitMQ (AMQP): Enterprise message routing and exchanges
• ✅ AWS SQS: Cloud-native serverless queue integration

Result Backends (3 Types)

• ✅ Redis Backend: Fast in-memory storage with automatic TTL
• ✅ Database Backend: PostgreSQL/MySQL with SQL analytics and durability
• ✅ gRPC Backend: Microservices-ready RPC result storage
• ✅ Chord Support: Distributed barrier synchronization across all backends

Workflow Primitives (Canvas)

• ✅ Chain: Sequential task execution with result passing
• ✅ Group: Parallel task execution
• ✅ Chord: Map-reduce with distributed barrier callback
• ✅ Map/Starmap: Distributed mapping operations
• ✅ Signature: Task signatures for workflow composition

Observability

• ✅ Prometheus Metrics: Task throughput, latency, queue depth
• ✅ Health Checks: Kubernetes-compatible liveness/readiness probes
• ✅ OpenTelemetry: Distributed tracing integration
• ✅ Grafana Dashboards: Pre-built visualization templates

Developer Experience

• ✅ Procedural Macros: #[celers::task] for automatic task registration
• ✅ CLI Tooling: Worker management, queue inspection, DLQ operations
• ✅ Configuration Management: TOML/YAML files + environment variables
• ✅ Comprehensive Documentation: API docs, guides, and examples

🏗️ Architecture

CeleRS follows a layered architecture inspired by Python Celery's design:

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    Application Layer                     │
│  celers-macros, celers-cli, user task definitions       │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                           │
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│              Runtime & Workflow Layer                    │
│  celers-worker, celers-canvas, celers-beat               │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                           │
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                 Messaging Layer (Kombu)                  │
│  celers-kombu, celers-broker-*, celers-backend-*         │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                           │
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                   Protocol Layer                         │
│  celers-protocol (Celery v2/v5 compatibility)            │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Workspace Crates (18 Total - 100% Complete)

Core & Protocol Layer

• celers: Facade crate with unified API
• celers-core: Core traits (Task, Broker, ResultBackend, TaskExecutor)
• celers-protocol: Celery Protocol v2/v5 message format
• celers-kombu: Kombu-compatible messaging abstraction

Broker Layer (5 Implementations)

• celers-broker-redis: Redis with Lua scripts and pipelining
• celers-broker-postgres: PostgreSQL with FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED
• celers-broker-sql: MySQL with batch operations
• celers-broker-amqp: RabbitMQ/AMQP with exchanges and routing
• celers-broker-sqs: AWS SQS with long polling

Result Backend Layer (3 Implementations)

• celers-backend-redis: Redis with TTL and chord synchronization
• celers-backend-db: PostgreSQL/MySQL with SQL analytics
• celers-backend-rpc: gRPC for microservices architectures

Runtime & Workflow Layer

• celers-worker: Task execution runtime with concurrency control
• celers-canvas: Workflow primitives (Chain, Chord, Group, Map)
• celers-beat: Periodic task scheduler (Cron, Interval, Solar)

Developer Tools

• celers-macros: Procedural macros (#[task], #[derive(Task)])
• celers-cli: Command-line worker and queue management
• celers-metrics: Prometheus metrics and observability

Crate Status (v0.2.0)

| Crate | Status | Tests | |-------|--------|-------| | celers-worker | [Stable] | 486 | | celers-protocol | [Stable] | 461 | | celers-broker-redis | [Stable] | 454 | | celers-kombu | [Stable] | 323 | | celers-beat | [Stable] | 312 | | celers-broker-sqs | [Stable] | 294 | | celers-core | [Stable] | 247 | | celers-broker-amqp | [Stable] | 244 | | celers-macros | [Stable] | 221 | | celers-backend-redis | [Stable] | 208 | | celers-canvas | [Stable] | 196 | | celers-metrics | [Stable] | 183 | | celers (facade) | [Stable] | 145 | | celers-broker-postgres | [Stable] | 117 | | celers-cli | [Stable] | 101 | | celers-broker-sql | [Stable] | 68 | | celers-backend-rpc | [Stable] | 8 | | celers-backend-db | [Stable] | 7 | | Total | 18/18 | 4075 |

🚀 Quick Start

Installation

Add CeleRS to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
celers-core = "0.2"
celers-protocol = "0.2"
celers-broker-redis = "0.2"
celers-worker = "0.2"
celers-macros = "0.2"
tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }

Define a Task

use celers_macros::task;
use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};

#[derive(Deserialize)]
struct AddArgs {
    x: i32,
    y: i32,
}

#[task]
async fn add(args: AddArgs) -> i32 {
    args.x + args.y
}

Start a Worker

use celers_broker_redis::RedisBroker;
use celers_worker::{Worker, WorkerConfig};

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
    // Create broker
    let broker = RedisBroker::new("redis://localhost:6379", "celers")?;

    // Configure worker
    let config = WorkerConfig {
        concurrency: 4,
        max_retries: 3,
        default_timeout: Duration::from_secs(300),
        ..Default::default()
    };

    // Register tasks
    let mut worker = Worker::new(broker, config);
    worker.register_task("add", add);

    // Start processing
    worker.run().await?;

    Ok(())
}

Enqueue Tasks

use celers_core::SerializedTask;
use celers_broker_redis::RedisBroker;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
    let mut broker = RedisBroker::new("redis://localhost:6379", "celers")?;

    let task = SerializedTask::new(
        "add".to_string(),
        serde_json::to_vec(&serde_json::json!({
            "x": 5,
            "y": 3
        }))?
    ).with_priority(9);  // High priority

    broker.enqueue(task).await?;

    Ok(())
}

🔧 CLI Usage

CeleRS provides a comprehensive CLI for operational tasks:

# Start a worker
celers worker --broker redis://localhost:6379 --concurrency 8

# Check queue status
celers status

# Inspect Dead Letter Queue
celers dlq inspect

# Replay failed task
celers dlq replay <task-id>

# Generate configuration file
celers init > celers.toml

📊 Monitoring

Prometheus Metrics

CeleRS exports comprehensive metrics:

# Counters
celers_tasks_enqueued_total
celers_tasks_completed_total
celers_tasks_failed_total
celers_tasks_retried_total
celers_tasks_cancelled_total

# Gauges
celers_queue_size
celers_processing_queue_size
celers_dlq_size
celers_active_workers

# Histograms
celers_task_execution_seconds

Health Checks

Kubernetes-compatible health endpoints:

let checker = HealthChecker::new();

// Liveness probe: Is the worker alive?
let health = checker.is_alive();

// Readiness probe: Can the worker accept tasks?
let ready = checker.is_ready();

// Full health status
let info = checker.get_health();

🗺️ Roadmap

Current Status (v0.2.0) — Released 2026-03-28

• ✅ Phase 1: The Backbone (Core runtime)
• ✅ Phase 2: Advanced Features (Priorities, DLQ, Cancellation)
• ✅ Phase 3: Developer Experience (Macros, CLI, Metrics)
• ✅ Phase 4: Performance & Scalability
• ✅ Phase 5: Beat Scheduler (Cron, Interval, Solar)
• ✅ Phase 6: Extended Brokers & Backends (AMQP, SQS, DB, gRPC)
• ✅ Phase 7: Full Celery Protocol Compatibility (v2 wire format)
• ✅ Phase 8: v0.2.0 Enhancements (Compression, Distributed Locks, Events)
• ✅ Phase 9: v0.2.0 Production Features (Event Persistence, Chunking, Heartbeat)

Upcoming Milestones

• v0.3.0: Full Python Celery interoperability (bidirectional task exchange, Protocol v5)
• v1.0.0: Stable API, Kafka/NATS brokers, web admin dashboard, security hardening

📖 Documentation

• Architecture Decision Records - Key design decisions
• TODO.md - Detailed task tracking

🔬 Examples

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