Orchestrating DAG-based task workflow in Celery
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Note (2026): While this post covers Celery's native workflow tools, for complex, long-running, or AI-agentic business processes, see [[modern-distributed-workflow-orchestration]] and [[agentic-vs-deterministic-orchestration]].
What's workflow in Celery?
In Celery, workflow is composed of multiple tasks, and a task is deemed to be a universal unit of the workflow, as a function in the program. In Celery, it's recommended to divide a long-running task into multiple short-running tasks. workflow comes out to help ease the orchestrations of the work, such as chain() three tasks.