[r1cka]

Heroku was the original gold standard for git based app deploys, but never for scheduling tasks. Here's a link to the documentation of Heroku's supposed "cron alternative" : https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/scheduler

It only supports hourly, daily, or every 10 minutes and it isn't even guaranteed to run. I would see it skip jobs more often than I expected, maybe 1 in 20 at times.

Supporting actual cron is way better than anything Heroku offered.

[tptacek]

I've wanted us to do a cron-thing for years, ever since I started, but because I hate cron. :)