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I have been thinking about how to approach this in several projects, and while scheduled lambda calls do the job, besides being AWS specific, do not integrate well with the "old way": launching shell commands.

The beauty of shell commands to me was that you can launch them both with cron and manually. Arguably you could do the same with lambda, but here we go, another service to set up (api gateway).

I built http://croningen.io - which is a hosted version of cron that schedule jobs on clusters of servers, with central error reporting. It is in my opinion as easy to use as cron, with most annoyances removed. Early days, but feedback welcome!