Running Cron on One Minute Intervals — Cleanly

Engineering

Running Cron on One Minute Intervals — Cleanly

One server cron, N logical schedules.

Ravi Kandaswamy

Ravi Kandaswamy

· 8 min read

Stop fighting crontab -e. Run one cron every minute and let it read a cron_jobs table to decide what runs. Adding a new job becomes a row, not an SSH session.

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