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Dalga: Job scheduler written in Go

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Re: Dalga: Job scheduler written in Go

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Why Dalga instead of plain cron?

In large setups, it is usually clever to isolate job execution policy into a separate system. This simplifies a lot of contextual configuration of the system at large.

You can have cron emit the cascading event if you want but you often need a system which can "prod" other systems and ask them to do things because of a timing event. In such systems, cron often falls short as the system around it grows.

For local timing of events, cron is a really good tool however, and I wouldn't hesitate about using it there. It is for system-wide events these general job schedulers tend to help.

Re: Dalga: Job scheduler written in Go

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Why Dalga instead of Kala? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10046164 Aren't they very similar? Isn't it better to join the efforts?

Kala is in Alpha stage. Dalga is stable and used in production ~2 years at https://put.io .

So I should probably ask the same question in the other thread :)
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