diff --git a/PKG-INFO b/PKG-INFO
index 1b74163f..b505874f 100644
--- a/PKG-INFO
+++ b/PKG-INFO
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 Metadata-Version: 1.0
 Name: swh.deposit
-Version: 0.0.51
+Version: 0.0.52
 Summary: Software Heritage Deposit Server
 Home-page: https://forge.softwareheritage.org/source/swh-deposit/
 Author: Software Heritage developers
 Author-email: swh-devel@inria.fr
 License: UNKNOWN
 Description: UNKNOWN
 Platform: UNKNOWN
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 4d986c11..fab46535 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -1,56 +1,56 @@
 Source: swh-deposit
 Maintainer: Software Heritage developers <swh-devel@inria.fr>
 Section: python
 Priority: optional
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9),
                dh-python (>= 2),
                python3-setuptools,
                python3-all,
                python3-nose,
                python3-django-nose,
                python3-vcversioner,
                python3-swh.core (>= 0.0.36~),
                python3-swh.model (>= 0.0.21~),
                python3-swh.loader.core (>= 0.0.32~),
                python3-swh.loader.tar (>= 0.0.35~),
-               python3-swh.scheduler (>= 0.0.19~),
+               python3-swh.scheduler (>= 0.0.26~),
                python3-django,
                python3-click,
                python3-vcversioner,
                python3-djangorestframework,
                python3-djangorestframework-xml,
                python3-requests,
                python3-lxml,
                patool
 Standards-Version: 3.9.6
 Homepage: https://forge.softwareheritage.org/source/swh-deposit/
 
 Package: python3-swh.deposit
 Architecture: all
 Depends: python3-swh.core (>= 0.0.36~),
          python3-swh.model (>= 0.0.21~),
-         python3-swh.scheduler (>= 0.0.19~),
+         python3-swh.scheduler (>= 0.0.26~),
          patool,
          ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends}
 Description: Software Heritage Deposit Server
 
 Package: python3-swh.deposit.client
 Architecture: all
 Depends: python3-swh.core (>= 0.0.36~),
          python3-swh.model (>= 0.0.21~),
          python3-requests,
          python3-lxml,
          ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends}
 Description: Software Heritage Deposit Api Client
 
 Package: python3-swh.deposit.loader
 Conflict: python3-swh.deposit.injection
 Architecture: all
 Depends: python3-swh.deposit.client (= ${binary:Version}),
          python3-swh.core (>= 0.0.36~),
          python3-swh.model (>= 0.0.21~),
          python3-swh.loader.core (>= 0.0.32~),
          python3-swh.loader.tar (>= 0.0.35~),
-         python3-swh.scheduler (>= 0.0.19~),
+         python3-swh.scheduler (>= 0.0.26~),
          ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends}
 Description: Software Heritage Deposit Loader
diff --git a/requirements-swh.txt b/requirements-swh.txt
index 4a51cbcf..1f63fe7e 100644
--- a/requirements-swh.txt
+++ b/requirements-swh.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 swh.core >= 0.0.36
 swh.loader.tar >= 0.0.35
 swh.loader.core >= 0.0.32
-swh.scheduler >= 0.0.19
+swh.scheduler >= 0.0.26
 swh.model >= 0.0.21
diff --git a/swh.deposit.egg-info/PKG-INFO b/swh.deposit.egg-info/PKG-INFO
index 1b74163f..b505874f 100644
--- a/swh.deposit.egg-info/PKG-INFO
+++ b/swh.deposit.egg-info/PKG-INFO
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 Metadata-Version: 1.0
 Name: swh.deposit
-Version: 0.0.51
+Version: 0.0.52
 Summary: Software Heritage Deposit Server
 Home-page: https://forge.softwareheritage.org/source/swh-deposit/
 Author: Software Heritage developers
 Author-email: swh-devel@inria.fr
 License: UNKNOWN
 Description: UNKNOWN
 Platform: UNKNOWN
diff --git a/swh.deposit.egg-info/requires.txt b/swh.deposit.egg-info/requires.txt
index dcc067a0..963df3d6 100644
--- a/swh.deposit.egg-info/requires.txt
+++ b/swh.deposit.egg-info/requires.txt
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 Django
 click
 djangorestframework
 djangorestframework-xml
 lxml
 swh.core>=0.0.36
 swh.loader.core>=0.0.32
 swh.loader.tar>=0.0.35
 swh.model>=0.0.21
-swh.scheduler>=0.0.19
+swh.scheduler>=0.0.26
 vcversioner
diff --git a/swh/deposit/config.py b/swh/deposit/config.py
index d3a1a8ae..999a20ae 100644
--- a/swh/deposit/config.py
+++ b/swh/deposit/config.py
@@ -1,93 +1,99 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2017-2018  The Software Heritage developers
 # See the AUTHORS file at the top-level directory of this distribution
 # License: GNU General Public License version 3, or any later version
 # See top-level LICENSE file for more information
 
 import os
 import logging
 
 from swh.core.config import SWHConfig
+from swh.scheduler import get_scheduler
 
 # IRIs (Internationalized Resource identifier) sword 2.0 specified
 EDIT_SE_IRI = 'edit_se_iri'
 EM_IRI = 'em_iri'
 CONT_FILE_IRI = 'cont_file_iri'
 SD_IRI = 'servicedocument'
 COL_IRI = 'upload'
 STATE_IRI = 'state_iri'
 PRIVATE_GET_RAW_CONTENT = 'private-download'
 PRIVATE_CHECK_DEPOSIT = 'check-deposit'
 PRIVATE_PUT_DEPOSIT = 'private-update'
 PRIVATE_GET_DEPOSIT_METADATA = 'private-read'
 
 ARCHIVE_KEY = 'archive'
 METADATA_KEY = 'metadata'
 
 ARCHIVE_TYPE = 'archive'
 METADATA_TYPE = 'metadata'
 
 AUTHORIZED_PLATFORMS = ['development', 'production', 'testing']
 
 DEPOSIT_STATUS_REJECTED = 'rejected'
 DEPOSIT_STATUS_PARTIAL = 'partial'
 DEPOSIT_STATUS_DEPOSITED = 'deposited'
 DEPOSIT_STATUS_VERIFIED = 'verified'
 DEPOSIT_STATUS_LOAD_SUCCESS = 'done'
 DEPOSIT_STATUS_LOAD_FAILURE = 'failed'
 
 # Revision author for deposit
 SWH_PERSON = {
     'name': 'Software Heritage',
     'fullname': 'Software Heritage',
     'email': 'robot@softwareheritage.org'
 }
 
 
 def setup_django_for(platform):
     """Setup function for command line tools (swh.deposit.create_user,
        swh.deposit.scheduler.cli) to initialize the needed db access.
 
     Note:
         Do not import any django related module prior to this function
         call. Otherwise, this will raise an
         django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured error message.
 
     Args:
         platform (str): the platform the scheduling is running
 
     Raises:
         ValueError in case of wrong platform inputs.
 
     """
     if platform not in AUTHORIZED_PLATFORMS:
         raise ValueError('Platform should be one of %s' % AUTHORIZED_PLATFORMS)
 
     os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE',
                           'swh.deposit.settings.%s' % platform)
 
     import django
     django.setup()
 
 
 class SWHDefaultConfig(SWHConfig):
     """Mixin intended to enrich views with SWH configuration.
 
     """
     CONFIG_BASE_FILENAME = 'deposit/server'
 
     DEFAULT_CONFIG = {
         'max_upload_size': ('int', 209715200),
         'checks': ('bool', True),
+        'scheduler': ('dict', {
+            'cls': 'remote',
+            'args': {
+                'url': 'http://localhost:5008/'
+            }
+        })
     }
 
     ADDITIONAL_CONFIG = {}
 
     def __init__(self, **config):
         super().__init__()
         self.config = self.parse_config_file(
             additional_configs=[self.ADDITIONAL_CONFIG])
         self.config.update(config)
         self.log = logging.getLogger('swh.deposit')
         if self.config['checks']:
-            from swh.scheduler.backend import SchedulerBackend
-            self.scheduler = SchedulerBackend()
+            self.scheduler = get_scheduler(**self.config['scheduler'])
diff --git a/swh/deposit/loader/scheduler.py b/swh/deposit/loader/scheduler.py
index e5f38a15..bc2713c6 100644
--- a/swh/deposit/loader/scheduler.py
+++ b/swh/deposit/loader/scheduler.py
@@ -1,212 +1,219 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2017-2018  The Software Heritage developers
 # See the AUTHORS file at the top-level directory of this distribution
 # License: GNU General Public License version 3, or any later version
 # See top-level LICENSE file for more information
 
 """Module in charge of sending deposit loading/checking as either
 celery task or scheduled one-shot tasks.
 
 """
 
 import click
 import logging
 
 from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
 from celery import group
 
 from swh.core import utils
 from swh.core.config import SWHConfig
 from swh.deposit.config import setup_django_for, DEPOSIT_STATUS_VERIFIED
 from swh.deposit.config import DEPOSIT_STATUS_DEPOSITED
 from swh.scheduler.utils import get_task, create_oneshot_task_dict
 
 
 class SWHScheduling(SWHConfig, metaclass=ABCMeta):
     """Base swh scheduling class to aggregate the schedule deposit
        loading.
 
     """
     CONFIG_BASE_FILENAME = 'deposit/server'
 
     DEFAULT_CONFIG = {
         'dry_run': ('bool', False),
     }
 
     ADDITIONAL_CONFIG = {}
 
     def __init__(self):
         super().__init__()
         self.config = self.parse_config_file(
                 additional_configs=[self.ADDITIONAL_CONFIG])
         self.log = logging.getLogger('swh.deposit.scheduling')
 
     @abstractmethod
     def schedule(self, deposits):
         """Schedule the new deposit loading.
 
         Args:
             data (dict): Deposit aggregated data
 
         Returns:
             None
 
         """
         pass
 
 
 class SWHCeleryScheduling(SWHScheduling):
     """Deposit loading as Celery task scheduling.
 
     """
     def __init__(self, config=None):
         super().__init__()
         if config:
             self.config.update(**config)
         self.dry_run = self.config['dry_run']
         self.check = self.config['check']
         if self.check:
             task_name = 'swh.deposit.loader.tasks.ChecksDepositTsk'
         else:
             task_name = 'swh.deposit.loader.tasks.LoadDepositArchiveTsk'
         self.task = get_task(task_name)
 
     def _convert(self, deposits):
         """Convert tuple to celery task signature.
 
         """
         task = self.task
         for archive_url, meta_url, update_url, check_url in deposits:
             if self.check:
                 yield task.s(deposit_check_url=check_url)
             else:
                 yield task.s(archive_url=archive_url,
                              deposit_meta_url=meta_url,
                              deposit_update_url=update_url)
 
     def schedule(self, deposits):
         """Schedule the new deposit loading directly through celery.
 
         Args:
             depositdata (dict): Deposit aggregated information.
 
         Returns:
             None
 
         """
         if self.dry_run:
             return
 
         return group(self._convert(deposits)).delay()
 
 
 class SWHSchedulerScheduling(SWHScheduling):
     """Deposit loading through SWH's task scheduling interface.
 
     """
-    ADDITIONAL_CONFIG = {}
+    ADDITIONAL_CONFIG = {
+        'scheduler': ('dict', {
+            'cls': 'remote',
+            'args': {
+                'url': 'http://localhost:5008',
+            }
+        })
+    }
 
     def __init__(self, config=None):
         super().__init__()
-        from swh.scheduler.backend import SchedulerBackend
+        from swh.scheduler import get_scheduler
         if config:
             self.config.update(**config)
         self.dry_run = self.config['dry_run']
-        self.scheduler = SchedulerBackend(**self.config)
+        self.scheduler = get_scheduler(**self.config['scheduler'])
         self.check = self.config['check']
 
     def _convert(self, deposits):
         """Convert tuple to one-shot scheduling tasks.
 
         """
         for archive_url, meta_url, update_url, check_url in deposits:
             if self.check:
                 task = create_oneshot_task_dict(
                     'swh-deposit-archive-checks',
                     deposit_check_url=check_url)
             else:
                 task = create_oneshot_task_dict(
                     'swh-deposit-archive-loading',
                     archive_url=archive_url,
                     deposit_meta_url=meta_url,
                     deposit_update_url=update_url)
 
             yield task
 
     def schedule(self, deposits):
         """Schedule the new deposit loading through swh.scheduler's api.
 
         Args:
             deposits (dict): Deposit aggregated information.
 
         """
         if self.dry_run:
             return
 
         self.scheduler.create_tasks(self._convert(deposits))
 
 
 def get_deposit_by(status):
     """Filter deposit given a specific status.
 
     """
     from swh.deposit.models import Deposit
     yield from Deposit.objects.filter(status=status)
 
 
 def prepare_task_arguments(check):
     """Convert deposit to argument for task to be executed.
 
     """
     from swh.deposit.config import PRIVATE_GET_RAW_CONTENT
     from swh.deposit.config import PRIVATE_GET_DEPOSIT_METADATA
     from swh.deposit.config import PRIVATE_PUT_DEPOSIT
     from swh.deposit.config import PRIVATE_CHECK_DEPOSIT
     from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
 
     if check:
         status = DEPOSIT_STATUS_DEPOSITED
     else:
         status = DEPOSIT_STATUS_VERIFIED
 
     for deposit in get_deposit_by(status):
         args = [deposit.collection.name, deposit.id]
         archive_url = reverse(PRIVATE_GET_RAW_CONTENT, args=args)
         meta_url = reverse(PRIVATE_GET_DEPOSIT_METADATA, args=args)
         update_url = reverse(PRIVATE_PUT_DEPOSIT, args=args)
         check_url = reverse(PRIVATE_CHECK_DEPOSIT, args=args)
         yield archive_url, meta_url, update_url, check_url
 
 
 @click.command(
     help='Schedule one-shot deposit loadings')
 @click.option('--platform', default='development',
               help='development or production platform')
 @click.option('--scheduling-method', default='celery',
               help='Scheduling method')
 @click.option('--batch-size', default=1000, type=click.INT,
               help='Task batch size')
 @click.option('--dry-run/--no-dry-run', is_flag=True, default=False,
               help='Dry run')
 @click.option('--check', is_flag=True, default=False)
 def main(platform, scheduling_method, batch_size, dry_run, check):
     setup_django_for(platform)
 
     override_config = {}
     if dry_run:
         override_config['dry_run'] = dry_run
     override_config['check'] = check
 
     if scheduling_method == 'celery':
         scheduling = SWHCeleryScheduling(override_config)
     elif scheduling_method == 'swh-scheduler':
         scheduling = SWHSchedulerScheduling(override_config)
     else:
         raise ValueError(
             'Only `celery` or `swh-scheduler` values are accepted')
 
     for deposits in utils.grouper(prepare_task_arguments(check), batch_size):
         scheduling.schedule(deposits)
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     main()
diff --git a/swh/deposit/settings/development.py b/swh/deposit/settings/development.py
index bc39dca5..04823686 100644
--- a/swh/deposit/settings/development.py
+++ b/swh/deposit/settings/development.py
@@ -1,59 +1,59 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2017  The Software Heritage developers
 # See the AUTHORS file at the top-level directory of this distribution
 # License: GNU General Public License version 3, or any later version
 # See top-level LICENSE file for more information
 
 from .common import *  # noqa
 
 # SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
 DEBUG = True
 
 # SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
 SECRET_KEY = 'development-key'
 
 # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/ref/settings/#logging
 LOGGING = {
     'version': 1,
-    'disable_existing_loggers': True,
+    'disable_existing_loggers': False,
     'formatters': {
         'standard': {
             'format': "[%(asctime)s] %(levelname)s [%(name)s:%(lineno)s] %(message)s",  # noqa
             'datefmt': "%d/%b/%Y %H:%M:%S"
         },
     },
     'handlers': {
         'console': {
             'level': 'DEBUG',
             'class': 'logging.StreamHandler',
             'formatter': 'standard'
         },
     },
     'loggers': {
         'django': {
             'handlers': ['console'],
             'level': 'DEBUG',
             'propagate': True,
         },
         'django.db.backends': {
             'handlers': ['console'],
             'level': 'INFO',
             'propagate': False,
         },
         'swh.deposit': {
             'handlers': ['console'],
             'level': 'DEBUG',
         },
     }
 }
 
 # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/ref/settings/#databases
 DATABASES = {
     'default': {
         'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
         'NAME': 'swh-deposit-dev',
     }
 }
 
 # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/settings/#std:setting-MEDIA_ROOT
 # SECURITY WARNING: Override this in the production.py module
 MEDIA_ROOT = '/tmp/swh-deposit/uploads/'
diff --git a/version.txt b/version.txt
index f548cb09..667e1dda 100644
--- a/version.txt
+++ b/version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-v0.0.51-0-g735b248
\ No newline at end of file
+v0.0.52-0-g7e535ab
\ No newline at end of file