Azure's service bus queue has a much better solution for this: you can schedule an item to appear in the queue at any future time. https://docs.microsoft.com/en

Azure's service bus queue has a much better solution for this: you can schedule an item to appear in the queue at any future time. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.servicebus.messaging.brokeredmessage.scheduledenqueuetimeutc?view=azure-dotnet#Microsoft_ServiceBus_Messaging_BrokeredMessage_ScheduledEnqueueTimeUtc https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.servic... Like Amazon's new SQS Lambda trigger you can then schedule a serverless function that's triggered by new items in the queue to have arbitrary scheduling of tasks. Using their Python API it's pretty nice: from datetime import datetime, timedelta from azure.servicebus import ServiceBusService, Message sbs = ServiceBusService('task-queue', shared_access_key_name=key_name, shared_access_key_value=key_value) d = datetime.utcnow() + timedelta(minutes=1) task = {"some": "object"} sbs.send_queue_message( "task-queue", Message( task, broker_properties={'ScheduledEnqueueTimeUtc': d} ) )