Tron

Next generation batch process scheduling and management

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Next generation batch process scheduling and management

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2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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izyda·Aug 12, 2015

Looks good. Very much looking forward to this being production ready. I am currently looking for a scheduler that provides a better UI/UX than cron alone. Currently, what do you all use for this sort of thing? Nextdoor has a not-yet-open-sourced solution: https://engblog.nextdoor.com/2015/06/10/we-do-not-run-cron-j... that looks great. Does anyone have any experience with Yelp's tron? https://github.com/Yelp/Tron

In Kala: A Modern Job Scheduler (written in Go)

SEJeff·Jun 11, 2014

Take a look at a few of these: https://github.com/Yelp/Tron https://github.com/airbnb/chronos

In Put a crontab database in the Name Service Switch

rhettg·Dec 28, 2012

I've used twisted for semi-major project (https://github.com/Yelp/Tron). It's certainly a difficult thing to get your head around. The parts of the project that touch twisted is always the most complex to explain to anyone else. However, async code is always hard. It also doesn't help that the code base shows it's age.. non-PEP8, strange naming conventions etc. However, one thing that I've noticed with recent projects using Tornado (https://github.com/rhettg/Dynochemy) is that some concepts that I thought was overly complex in Twisted makes sense eventually. For example, handling errors in async code is really hard. The framework twisted came up with with Deferred, callbacks and errbacks is pretty smart. You almost have to re-invent twisted before you can appreciate it. I'd recommend reading the original paper for more information: http:/

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