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Re: Deno Cron

#11
post #5

This is pretty neat, I can see this maybe being useful for database cleanup/housekeeping, what other example use cases are there?

pulling from an API / scraping data, sending emails/notifications/reports, backing up databases/snapshots, checking availability of various services, pinging website, pre-warm up apps/scale applications, various maintenance tasks.

Re: Deno Cron

#14
post #8

When using Deno Deploy, which region does a cron job run in? Is there a way to configure it?

It currently runs in us-east by default. Specifying a region is on our roadmap.

Re: Deno Cron

#15
post #9
post #2

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!

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

Not currently, but this is on the roadmap

Re: Deno Cron

#16
Nice, I was just wondering if there was an opportunity for a product similar to vercel for batch jobs.

This isn't quite that but close.

From my experience there 5 main components for larger scale system.

- Request server

- database

- queue

- background worker

- offline batch jobs

I feel like so far serverless has the first 3 fairly well developed but the last two are still underdeveloped.

But maybe I'm just not aware of other solutions?

Re: Deno Cron

#17
My first question when I am considering a product like this is how can I get an email when there's an error in my application. Why isn't that in the top level feature list of everything like this, or am I unusual in thinking that this is an essential feature of any hosting system?

Re: Deno Cron

#18

Nice, I was just wondering if there was an opportunity for a product similar to vercel for batch jobs. This isn't quite that but close. From my experience there 5 main components for larger scale system. - Request server - database - queue - background worker - offline batch jobs I feel like so far serverless has the first 3 fairly well developed but the last two are still underdeveloped. But maybe I'm just not aware…

EventBridge + Lambda or ECS gets you pretty far for the last two imo

Re: Deno Cron

#19
How long does the job get to run?

Would be really awesome if this could be used to offload long lived jobs from the request.

Defer.run is building this for vercel and it’s really cool.

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