Ask HN: Job Scheduling as a service Is there any product that will allow us to schedule via an api , and then if the time is triggered then it should call the destination via webhook(with payload preferably )
Right now we are using quartz scheduler which has more configuration (Including Mysql Connection ) . Cons are 1) Does not have an admin UI 2) No reporting or history of jobs Thanks |
Shit on a stick doesn't anyone actually host anything themselves anymore?
I Think these are not part of application development and it can be offloaded to hosted services .
All of these are better options than "embed the entire job info in a URL and hand it off to a remote scheduling service".
etc. You might be as well writing your own though, since it shouldn't be a difficult task.
Edit: if you haven't got this stack around though i'd second calls to use a build tool like Jenkins or Rundeck - of course you probably don't want this on the same Jenkins that builds your jobs... so you'd have to set all that up
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/conf...
You'll have to create an app handler for the URL which can then make the outbound http request. It's inexpensive, reliable and has an admin interface and logs.
So i am looking for a hosted scheduler where i can send a rest API request with a webhook and a small payload . During the execution time the hosted scheduler will call the webhook with the payload , so that i will publish the post .
Pros is that i dont want to worry about the scheduled jobs .Right now i am unable to find a scheduler with the good admin UI ( to pause all the jobs ) to delete the trial users post .
Save the future posts to the database with the required publish date/time.
Run cron every $X minutes where $X is the smallest interval you allow (ie if you force publish date to be rounded to 5 minutes, run cron every 5 minutes) and check for "future posts" where the publish date <= now(), and take action.
This is pretty basic stuff and that you want to offload it to a 3rd party by capturing all the details into a request to be made back to your app is a huge red flag IMO.
I went into more details about Hashicorp's Nomad in another post, but I didn't mention that you can run a cluster of Nomad servers for high availability.
Nomad is open source - I don't have a dog in the fight - I'm just a happy user.
https://aaron-hoffman.blogspot.com/2017/01/replace-azure-sch...
More like sendgrid.com for scheduling
see: http://hook.io/cron
I think webtask.io is somewhat similar.
Also, iron.io lets you schedule functions using docker, has full API.
AWS Lambda also lets you schedule Lambda and has full API.
My app has schedule functionality for example a scheduled report , so if it where like a webhook call then i dont want to waste the cpu cycle ,now i am using quartz scheduler in my java app .
Run cron on all your boxes, have them pull a job at a time from the database. Or shit, go full tilt with a clustered Redis job queue.
You're solving for the example but the original poster noted multiple jobs.