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by mrkschan 3779 days ago
@bryan, how do you guys handle workload spike due to the way zapier is working in a crontab style?
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Less of an issue than you'd think with one simple trick: jitter. :-)

Or, we don't guarantee you job runs at 0,5,10,15,etc - we guarantee it runs close to that interval over a day.