We switched from Heroku Scheduler (very limited cron) to a system called Sidekiq Cron[1] (if we used Sidekiq Enterprise we would use the built-in scheduler). Al

We switched from Heroku Scheduler (very limited cron) to a system called Sidekiq Cron[1] (if we used Sidekiq Enterprise we would use the built-in scheduler). All Sidekiq Cron does is drop a job into the queue on a given interval. We also use HireFire to auto-scale our workers as necessary to keep things running. [1]: https://github.com/ondrejbartas/sidekiq-cron https://github.com/ondrejbartas/sidekiq-cron [2]: https://hirefire.io https://hirefire.io