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by lofatdairy 1274 days ago
> Just note that they’re not guaranteed to be called precisely on time, e.g. my “every 15m” CRON job will be called every 15m _at best_, in practice… twice per hour

Is the spread really that egregious? That's essentially a 50% failure to trigger at all, like I don't think you can call that 15 minutes so much as 15±10 minutes lmfao

IIRC AWS EventBridge is also not guaranteed to execute on the exact minute, but in my experience running a small job every 5 minutes only had about a 30-40 second delay at worst.

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Just checked the logs: it used to be 2 per hour, but now it has improved to 3-5, so closer to the "every 15 m" rule. Again, not a big deal in my case and probably something that's being worked on.