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Ask HN: Job Scheduling as a service

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Is there any product that will allow us to schedule via an api , and then if the time is triggered then it should call the destination via webhook(with payload preferably ) Right now we are using quartz scheduler which has more configuration (Including Mysql Connection ) .

Cons are 1) Does not have an admin UI 2) No reporting or history of jobs

Thanks

Re: Ask HN: Job Scheduling as a service

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Google app engine has a cron service: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/conf... You'll have to create an app handler for the URL which can then make the outbound http request. It's inexpensive, reliable and has an admin interface and logs.

Yeah this works for cron jobs . Let me explain my requirement , say i have social media platform and users will schedule their post , and i need to schedule it in my scheduler and i have to persist in the databsae too . Because if the server is restarted all my scheduled jobs will be gone ..

So i am looking for a hosted scheduler where i can send a rest API request with a webhook and a small payload . During the execution time the hosted scheduler will call the webhook with the payload , so that i will publish the post .

Pros is that i dont want to worry about the scheduled jobs .Right now i am unable to find a scheduler with the good admin UI ( to pause all the jobs ) to delete the trial users post .

Re: Ask HN: Job Scheduling as a service

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You want cron, as a service? Shit on a stick doesn't anyone actually host anything themselves anymore?

I need a scheduler where i can dynamically ( via api ) schedule a job , with the admin UI to manage the jobs .

I Think these are not part of application development and it can be offloaded to hosted services .

Re: Ask HN: Job Scheduling as a service

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You want cron, as a service? Shit on a stick doesn't anyone actually host anything themselves anymore?

I need a scheduler where i can dynamically ( via api ) schedule a job , with the admin UI to manage the jobs . I Think these are not part of application development and it can be offloaded to hosted services .

Jenkins has scheduled jobs and an UI. It can also be accessed via API. https://jenkins.io/
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