[lambtron]

hey, andy from the deno team here. we're really excited to land this. happy to answer any questions or pass questions along to the team!

[IshKebab]

Why on earth would you copy Cron's incomprehensible syntax? You're writing code in a statically typed language! You can make a nice type checked API that actually is understandable without having to use one of the many many crontab generator UIs.

Crazy API design!

Edit: seems like there is a WIP typed API but I still have no idea why you would lead with the terrible one...

[nwjsmith]

Is the spikiness of cron schedules going to cause you operational problems? You're going to end up with a _lot_ of jobs scheduled at "0 0 * * *".

[igorzi]

Yes, we're anticipating more spiky workloads because of this. Deno Deploy is already designed to handle spikes, but we also have a few additional mitigations in place for Cron. For example, we will limit concurrent dispatches for the same project/user/organization, which may slightly delay the execution of specific cron tasks.

[SheinhardtWigCo]

Charge 25% more for every 0 in the scheduling expression, problem solved :-)

[SahAssar]

Or add a default randomness factor that makes it run within a certain time (like 60s or 5m) of the target, perhaps with an additional charge to run at the exact time if people have that requirement.

[yawnxyz]

I've been looking for something like this! Is it possible to run rclone to send Google Drive documents to an S3 compatible endpoint? (~20GB of files)

[kavaruka]

how does it works on self-hosted environment?

[igorzi]

We're gathering more feedback for supporting self-hosted cron environment. Can you describe how you would use it?

[threatofrain]

Any plans for an SQL db service?

[lambtron]

we've gotten a bunch of interest for this and the team is discussing it :)

[throwawaaarrgh]

Personally I would stay within your niche and focus on documentation, guides, and outreach to convert more people to your stack. A few simple but very reliable easy solutions is better than a lot of not great solutions.

[ushakov]

use sqld (libsql)?

[msoad]

is there an API to receive the state of this and/or other cron jobs?

[igorzi]

Not currently, but this is on the roadmap