[mcintyre1994]

Neat! We've been doing something like this at work, and another simple solution (curious if your Google cloud infrastructure is built on something similar) is Azure Service Bus queues with a function app trigger.

Unlike AWS SQS, Azure SB queues can have items scheduled to be queued at an arbitrary time, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.azure..... SQS can only delay up to 15 minutes, so you have to implement your own hack to schedule for later than that.

And also unlike SQS, they can trigger a function so you don't have to deal with the logic to listen yourself - or even the transactional message handling, if the function fails the message is automatically re-queued.

[PretzelFisch]

Aws just announced "ECS Daemon Scheduling" https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/amazon-ec... It sounds promising.

[cgenuity]

Thanks! I do heavily use Google Cloud Pub/Sub but it does not support scheduling items so I only schedule items when they are due for processing.

[navinsylvester]

Wouldn't it be good to have your own pub/sub mechanism instead of relying on a third party like gce for a critical component. Take for example - https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/13327. It took them fair amount of time to fix that issue.

[ben509]

Interesting... AWS leaked that subscriptions to SQS are in the works, but it's good to see that Azure has that already.

[jwilsco]

> AWS leaked that subscriptions to SQS are in the works

Interesting, where did you hear that?