Learning the cron format is still necessary / useful - most distributed deployment systems have some form of schedule job running. Even on a purely serverless m

Learning the cron format is still necessary / useful - most distributed deployment systems have some form of schedule job running. Even on a purely serverless model like AWS Lambda, it’s still possible to do distributed crons. I actually think the word ‘cron’ has already been repurposed - when using it my team actually refers to the distributed version, not the per server version.