What is everyone using for scheduled background jobs and queued tasks? (not celery)

[epicwhale]

I am wondering what's a modern task queue that's lightweight and also couples well with the rest of this full stack template? For both scheduled jobs and queued tasks that arise from the backend.

• I have explored arq so far but I find it rather unmaintained recently, lacking strong observability and UI-dashboard visibility into jobs running / scheduled - even though I appreciate its simplicity.

• celery requires hacking around for async compatibility - if the code i want to run in worker tasks is async heavy

• i was considering prefect + sqlite as a third alternative, but comes with a learning curve

what are others here doing?