[davidw]

> Like using `cron` or `at`

A technological aside that's neither here nor there with regards to the broader 'boring' debate: one of the advantages of Erlang/Elixir is that it's more of a self-contained ecosystem than, say, Rails, where you can run a bunch of different "applications" inside the same process, and it's easy for them to talk to one another. There are a number of 'cron' type things that you can easily run within your BEAM system. For some kinds of applications and deployments, this is pretty convenient. It's easier to create jobs programmatically, to introspect them, and to keep track of them all within the same system, without an external dependency.