title: Why would running scheduled tasks with Celery be preferable over crontab?
body: <p>Considering Celery is already a part of the stack to run task queues (i.e. it is not being added just for running crons, that seems an overkill IMHO ).</p>
  
  <p>How can its "periodic tasks" feature be beneficial as a replacement for crontab ?
  Specifically looking for following points.</p>
  
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  <li>Major pros/cons over crontab</li>
  <li>Use cases where celery is better choice than crontab</li>
  <li>Django specific use case: Celery vs crontab to run django based periodic tasks, when celery has been included in the stack as <code>django-celery</code> for queing django tasks.</li>
  </ul>