Introducing snooze, a lightweight alternative to cron for scheduling tasks without requiring root privileges or a background service.
Introducing NCronJob, a lightweight .NET job scheduler library that sits between BackgroundService and full-featured schedulers like Hangfire.
How to use Hangfire's DisableConcurrentExecution attribute to prevent a recurring .NET background job from running if the previous instance is still active.
A tutorial on building a custom cron job scheduler in ASP.NET Core using BackgroundService, for educational purposes.
Explains why Apache Airflow jobs appear to run a day late due to its scheduling logic, contrasting it with cron jobs.
A tutorial on setting up a Python script to run SpeedTest.net CLI tests and log the results to InfluxDB on a Raspberry Pi for monitoring with Grafana.
A guide to building a simple scheduled task system in ASP.NET Core 2.0, inspired by Spring's @Scheduled annotation.
A Fedora maintainer shares a Python script to scrape and email daily reports of failed live CD builds from Koji.
A guide to the new cron-style event scheduler introduced in Laravel 5.0, showing how to schedule tasks.
Debugging Drupal cron failures caused by a custom module's nodeapi hook using drupal_goto().
A guide to designing a reliable, automated backup system using cron and rsync, focusing on efficiency, security, and fail-safes.
A guide to automatically download the latest SQL database backup daily using shell scripts and cron jobs on Unix systems.
A technical guide on setting up automated music syncing between a desktop and a rooted Android phone using rsync, SSH, and cron.
A tutorial on automating file backups using Rsync and Cron scheduling on Linux systems.
A technical guide on creating a Python decorator to restrict Google App Engine cron job URLs to authorized requests only.
