Engineering
Running Cron on One Minute Intervals — Cleanly
One server cron, N logical schedules.
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.
Our master tick is 12 lines long and has been running for a year without a blip.