Introducing Chronos: A Replacement for Cron

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Post by AirbnbNerds » Fri, Mar 15, 2013, 7:07 PM UTC

Introducing Chronos: A Replacement for Cron
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Re: Introducing Chronos: A Replacement for Cron

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Post by philp » Fri, Mar 15, 2013, 7:17 PM UTC

I know a couple guys that will be rather unhappy about the choice of moniker. http://www.getchronos.com/

Re: Introducing Chronos: A Replacement for Cron

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Post by rjurney » Fri, Mar 15, 2013, 7:19 PM UTC

I've seen it in action, and it can schedule down to the milisecond across machines.

Re: Introducing Chronos: A Replacement for Cron

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Post by signed0 » Fri, Mar 15, 2013, 7:20 PM UTC

philp wrote: post #2

I know a couple guys that will be rather unhappy about the choice of moniker. http://www.getchronos.com/

http://chronoss.sourceforge.net/ has been around longer than they have.

Re: Introducing Chronos: A Replacement for Cron

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Post by lsiclait » Fri, Mar 15, 2013, 7:23 PM UTC

signed0 wrote: post #4

philp wrote: post #2

I know a couple guys that will be rather unhappy about the choice of moniker. http://www.getchronos.com/

http://chronoss.sourceforge.net/ has been around longer than they have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronos

Re: Introducing Chronos: A Replacement for Cron

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Post by oinksoft » Fri, Mar 15, 2013, 7:30 PM UTC

philp wrote: post #2

I know a couple guys that will be rather unhappy about the choice of moniker. http://www.getchronos.com/

Not to mention https://github.com/lehoff/chronos , a very useful library.

Re: Introducing Chronos: A Replacement for Cron

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Post by solidsnack9000 » Fri, Mar 15, 2013, 7:31 PM UTC

Tools like this can make a lot of ops housekeeping stuff easier, like log roll ups and deleting old backups and so forth. One doesn't want to depend on particular machines being up; but on the other hand, there's not a 99.999999% uptime requirement.

Re: Introducing Chronos: A Replacement for Cron

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Post by nemesisj » Fri, Mar 15, 2013, 8:08 PM UTC

And....that blog is going offline in a few weeks. Thanks Posterous/Twitter!

Re: Introducing Chronos: A Replacement for Cron

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Post by verelo » Fri, Mar 15, 2013, 8:08 PM UTC

This is brilliant! I've had to do a lot of work creating queue based systems in recent years, and i really like off the shelf solutions to problems like this. Cron is a great tool, but its a mess once you have a bunch of machines and it really just does not scale.

Re: Introducing Chronos: A Replacement for Cron

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Post by darose » Fri, Mar 15, 2013, 8:08 PM UTC

Seems like Chronos covers a lot of the same functionality as Rundeck.