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Deno Cron
- souvlakee 3y agoBetter to call it adenocron.
- lambtron 3y agohey, andy from the deno team here. we're really excited to land this. happy to answer any questions or pass questions along to the team!
- threatofrain 3y agoAny plans for an SQL db service?
- lambtron 3y agowe've gotten a bunch of interest for this and the team is discussing it :)
- ushakov 3y agouse sqld (libsql)?
- throwawaaarrgh 3y agoPersonally I would stay within your niche and focus on documentation, guides, and outreach to convert more people to your stack. A few simple but very reliable easy solutions is better than a lot of not great solutions.
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- kavaruka 3y agohow does it works on self-hosted environment?
- igorzi 3y agoWe're gathering more feedback for supporting self-hosted cron environment. Can you describe how you would use it?
- msoad 3y agois there an API to receive the state of this and/or other cron jobs?
- igorzi 3y agoNot currently, but this is on the roadmap
- nwjsmith 3y agoIs the spikiness of cron schedules going to cause you operational problems? You're going to end up with a _lot_ of jobs scheduled at "0 0 * * *".
- igorzi 3y agoYes, we're anticipating more spiky workloads because of this. Deno Deploy is already designed to handle spikes, but we also have a few additional mitigations in place for Cron. For example, we will limit concurrent dispatches for the same project/user/organization, which may slightly delay the execution of specific cron tasks.
- SheinhardtWigCo 3y agoCharge 25% more for every 0 in the scheduling expression, problem solved :-)
- SahAssar 3y agoOr add a default randomness factor that makes it run within a certain time (like 60s or 5m) of the target, perhaps with an additional charge to run at the exact time if people have that requirement.
- IshKebab 3y agoWhy on earth would you copy Cron's incomprehensible syntax? You're writing code in a statically typed language! You can make a nice type checked API that actually is understandable without having to use one of the many many crontab generator UIs. Crazy API design! Edit: seems like there is a WIP typed API but I still have no idea why you would lead with the terrible one...
- yawnxyz 3y agoI've been looking for something like this! Is it possible to run rclone to send Google Drive documents to an S3 compatible endpoint? (~20GB of files)
- iobdas 3y agoExcited to use this, nice work Deno team!
- Dig1t 3y agoThis is pretty neat, I can see this maybe being useful for database cleanup/housekeeping, what other example use cases are there?
- lambtron 3y agopulling from an API / scraping data, sending emails/notifications/reports, backing up databases/snapshots, checking availability of various services, pinging website, pre-warm up apps/scale applications, various maintenance tasks.
- skybrian 3y agoWhen using Deno Deploy, which region does a cron job run in? Is there a way to configure it?
- igorzi 3y agoIt currently runs in us-east by default. Specifying a region is on our roadmap.
- ushakov 3y agoDoes it work locally?
- aleksiy123 3y agoNice, I was just wondering if there was an opportunity for a product similar to vercel for batch jobs. This isn't quite that but close. From my experience there 5 main components for larger scale system. - Request server - database - queue - background worker - offline batch jobs I feel like so far serverless has the first 3 fairly well developed but the last two are still underdeveloped. But maybe I'm just not aware of other solutions?
- slig 3y agoYou should check Windmill.dev.
- aleksiy123 3y agoI will check out windmill. Though it does look somewhat complex. One tangentially related is I'm looking for somewhere to just run a python script once a day. I'll see if I can do that with windmill.
- kkoppenhaver 3y ago(disclaimer: Dev Advocate for Airplane) Seems like that would be a good fit for Airplane's Schedules: https://www.airplane.dev/schedules https://www.airplane.dev/schedules. It's pretty much as straightforward as deploying your Python script (and any dependencies with requirements.txt) and setting up your schedule for when you want it to run!
- aleksiy123 3y agoI will try this as well thank you!
- slig 3y agoYes, you can do that quite trivially on WM.
- jrklabs_com 3y agoWe have been using a self-hosted Windmill instance for running batch processes in Production for a while now. It has been a very nice upgrade from cron jobs for us (adding captured job outputs, status info, ability to re-run jobs, etc).
- cja 3y agoMy first question when I am considering a product like this is how can I get an email when there's an error in my application. Why isn't that in the top level feature list of everything like this, or am I unusual in thinking that this is an essential feature of any hosting system?
- throwawaaarrgh 3y agoSome hosting systems may support that out of the box but I don't know what they are. Typically you would use metrics, monitors and alerts and create a notification alert based on certain conditions. No reason they couldn't provide some out of the box, but it's not common. At the very least it would need to stop after a short number of alerts or they'd end up spamming customers if it crashes on a loop
- evbogue 3y agoI've started tossing https://ntfy.sh/ https://ntfy.sh/ alerts into my Deno apps to get push notifications for things I'm interested in
- skybrian 3y agoMy wife has had good luck using Pushover [1], which seems similar. I wonder how these services compare? [1] https://pushover.net/ https://pushover.net/
- evbogue 3y agoPushover looks very similar to Ntfy, but I haven't tried it yet.
- cja 3y agoI actually use Pushover for a project but it just does the notification part and requires me to catch all errors and send them to Pushover. I'm looking for the hosting service to catch unhanded errors automatically
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- obblekk 3y agoHow long does the job get to run? Would be really awesome if this could be used to offload long lived jobs from the request. Defer.run is building this for vercel and it’s really cool.
- lucacasonato 3y agoYou can use Queues for this :) https://deno.com/blog/queues https://deno.com/blog/queues
- vorticalbox 3y agoI wish this had a built in rate limit, I wanted to hit an api with lots of test data, I didn't need to actually wait for the response and I didn't really care how long they took. I just needed to limit how fast the http requests went. I guess I could do this with the delay and calculate how long it would need to wait.
- leroman 3y agoNice, years ago I wrote a TypeScript (originally CoffeeScript re-written to TypeScript) library to generate schedule times for a cron between two time points, should be easy to write a service like this with it. https://github.com/romansky/JsCron https://github.com/romansky/JsCron
- vvpan 3y agoI am a lead on a small startup team and one of the biggest pain points is dealing with infrastructure. We have no dedicated devops person and much of that work falls on me and other people who would be better writing code. I think the cloud paradigm is experiencing a shift. Few of us want to deal with cloud infrastructure (whether clicking around or via Terraform or equivalent) to execute a function every X minutes - its unnecessary developer hours. The functionality is so common that it should just work. Perhaps stemming from that there seem to be two recent trends: 1. Services like this cron with Dyno Deploy or Vercel where the cloud things are abstracted away for you. 2. I have no data to back it up but it seems like JVM is experience a bit of a comeback with a few companies adopting Kotlin for backend and, also subjectively, talk about Elixir has increased here on Hacker News (we've all seen that table that shows how the Erlang VM is cron/background jobs/logging service/KV store all rolled into one). And if those are not the trends I feel like they should be. Both of those are very appealing to me as a team lead. Honestly, I have never been a fan of managing services in AWS/GCP/etc - the setup overhead rarely seemed to outweigh the pros, at least until some heavy amount of data start moving around. I might be stating the obvious - less work is definitely better, but pretty much every company I have consulted for in the last few years had a (crappy) bespoke cloud setup that was a massive time sink.
- mattgreenrocks 3y agoFor sure. As someone who has stayed away from this part of the biz, infrastructure always looked like makework to me. Necessary, mind you, but still makework that was indicative of poor/insufficient computing primitives for services. > it seems like JVM is experience a bit of a comeback with a few companies adopting Kotlin for backend JVM 21 adding virtual threads, and Spring Boot 3.2 using them with one line of config is huge. We can now write simple code that looks blocking and let the runtime handle it instead of writing async function/await everywhere. Personally I'm loving Spring Boot 3.2 with Kotlin, especially for the fact that I can bundle scheduled jobs, API, and frontend all in one place for my indie projects. Plus the JVM world of devs seems to have a somewhat decent appreciation of how to make web services that aren't rife with unnecessary coupling. The bad? There is a legendary amount of cargo-culting blog posts and questionable advice around Spring Boot, often for older versions.
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- koolba 3y ago> How exactly does Deno Deploy know there’s a cron in your code, even when there’s no web server handling requests? > When a new production deployment of your project is created, an ephemeral V8 isolate is used to evaluate your project’s top-level scope and to discover any Deno.cron definitions. A global cron scheduler is then updated with your project’s latest cron definitions, which includes updates to your existing crons, new crons, and deleted crons. Having cron jobs defined in the code itself just feels weird. I get the convenience of doing things "in one place", but it's such an orthogonal concept. But I suppose combining things is part of the allure of deno any way. Now that aside, the Flavor Flav dinosaur is the best thing I've seen all week.
- mgkimsal 3y agoWhere better to put cron work? In another repo? If the cron jobs are 100% unrelated to the codebase, yeah, it might be weird. If the jobs are "run the foo() method every 2am"... having that info colocated with the foo() method itself makes a lot of sense, imo.
- nightpool 3y agoJust a normal yaml file...? Why go through the complexity of putting it in another codebase when you can just make a single config file? There are probably some benefits of using the Deno.cron syntax for some functions, and benefits of using a config file for others, but acting like the only other option is "put it in a completely seperate codebase" doesn't make any sense to me.
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- JLCarveth 3y agoHave the team at Deno not heard of systemd timers?
- charcircuit 3y agoI agree. "0 * * * *" to schedule something hourly is a poor for developer experience. systemd timers use a more human readable "hourly". "0 1 * * *" to run at 1:00 daily becomes "1:00". systemd timer calendar events read like actual timestamps.
- shepherdjerred 3y agoI want to love Deno. It seems to really modernize TypeScript development. I just haven't had good experiences with it. I spent a day or two migrating a TypeScript project [-1] over to Deno from NodeJS. Here's what I had to do: * Change all of my local imports to something that would work with Deno. That meant appending `.ts` or `index.ts` for folders, except in some cases where Deno requires `.js` * Modify my monorepo to play nice with Deno -- an import map does this easily. Deno has documentation around import maps, but I had to figure out the solution myself. Also, import maps are currently broken in JetBrains IDEs. * Change my NPM imports to something that would work with Deno. The most straightforward thing to do was just change `import "foo"` to `import "npm:foo"`, but this felt hacky so eventually I used https://esm.sh https://esm.sh, which worked for some packages but not others. * Figure out how to get Lodash working with TypeScript. It's not simple. [0] * Use a hack to get typeorm with sqlite working. [1] * Try out `deno compile`, only to determine that it somehow works differently than `deno run`. My project simply wouldn't work with `deno compile`, probably because my project has some system dependencies that don't get properly linked/included. * Setup my scripts to properly lint my project. Deno has formatting/linting built-in, but it's split across many commands with different usages. For example, I can run `deno fmt` to format my entire project, but I have to give Deno a path to run `check` or `lint`, e.g. `deno check src/index.ts ` * Patch a third-party library that was setting an HTTP header to `null`. NodeJS handles this case just fine, but Deno throws an error [2]. * Attempt to build my UI (astro + react) with Deno. It seems some people have gotten this partially working, but I gave up and stayed on NodeJS for building my UI. This led to me: * Using dnt [3] to build a Deno package for consumption with NodeJS/npm frontend. This was actually surprisingly simple; kudos to the author of the dnt library. After all of that work, I finally was able to use Deno in my project. It was really cool! Unfortunately, both VS Code and IntelliJ with Deno are essentially unusable [4]. Or, at least, unacceptably slow compared to what I had with NodeJS. [-1]: https://github.com/shepherdjerred/glitter-boys/tree/sj/deno https://github.com/shepherdjerred/glitter-boys/tree/sj/deno [0]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/66073607 https://stackoverflow.com/a/66073607 [1]: https://github.com/typeorm/typeorm/issues/6123#issuecomment-1824773630 https://github.com/typeorm/typeorm/issues/6123#issuecomment-... [2]: https://github.com/Sansossio/twisted/issues/97 https://github.com/Sansossio/twisted/issues/97 [3]: https://github.com/denoland/dnt https://github.com/denoland/dnt [4]: https://github.com/denoland/vscode_deno/issues/895 https://github.com/denoland/vscode_deno/issues/895
- tengbretson 3y agoThis really seems to muddy the distinction between the data layer and the application layer. I'm sure they've put a lot of thought into this, but it seems like there could be some bizarre edge cases.
- manicennui 3y agoNot using something more intuitive than cron's schedule format seems like a missed opportunity.
- igorzi 3y agoThis is being worked on: https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/21122 https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/21122. Should be available with the next Deno release.
- phoe-krk 3y agoThe AI-generated imagery at https://deno.com/blog/cron/cover.png https://deno.com/blog/cron/cover.png is actually painful the longer you look at it. The multiple watch hands might be an artistic effect, but the clock lacks the tenth hour and has two elevenths, the dinosaur's legs make absolutely no sense, and the water reflections show a different pattern on the dinosaur legs and a completely different set of clock hands than what is visible above. I know that displaying artwork is not the point of the article, but please, at least make it believable when you look at it for more than one second.
- handsaway 3y agoIt's hard to ignore when it takes up my entire screen and I have to scroll to see anything else. AI artwork is popping up everywhere and I don't think it looks as cool as people seem to think. It comes off incredibly tacky.
- cantSpellSober 3y agoPerhaps bad AI art will go down as a tacky nostalgia, the "'under construction' gif" of their time
- dmix 3y agoNo, we'll just wait for it to get better... all of those critiques are solvable by future iterations of AI tooling, at least for generic blogpost headers, where the alternative is usually some other generic stock photo or nothing at all. Rarely is human ever involved in creating it new.
- ketzo 3y agoI mean, it's a hero image above a technical article. What percentage of readers even did look at it for more than one second? I thought it was awesome, even though it was pretty obviously AI-generated for the reasons you stated.
- FragenAntworten 3y agoIt's especially disappointing to see Deno doing this, because in the past they've used endearing art made by an artist, hashrock, which I liked very much.
- asim 3y agoWrote similar when I was working on an API platform. Used http callbacks. https://m3o.com/cron/api#Schedule https://m3o.com/cron/api#Schedule
- syrusakbary 3y agoI was pleasantly surprised to see this, but it seems that the JS context in each run of the cron script is cloned so cron jobs are actually run in a separate "process". Namely, I ran this example. let s = 0, r = 0; Deno.cron("Add second", "* * * * *", async () => { console.log(`Add second ${s++}`); }); Deno.serve(async (_req) => { return new Response(`Seconds Running: ${s} / Number of requests: ${r++}`); }) Example deployed here: https://weak-stoat-26.deno.dev https://weak-stoat-26.deno.dev So, effectively, it seems that Deno.Cron clones the JS context but any changes done to that context will not be reflected in the Deno.serve. And, if that's the case, why don't handle Cron jobs in a different flow rather than mixing them with Deno.serve? (I think it can lead to unintended side-effects) I'd love if someone from the Deno team could provide more context here, maybe I missed something?
- igorzi 3y agoIf you need to manipulate state - you should use Deno KV or some other persistent database. V8 isolates are created on-demand to handle Deno.cron and Deno.serve requests, potentially in different regions. You should not make assumptions that the same isolate will be used to handle all requests.
- pseudosavant 3y agoI love Deno, and it is because it usually avoids these kind of footgun situations. It is hard to grok that you can access those variables in the shared scope, but if you manipulate them, they are actually in completely different isolates. I understand architecturally why it is that way right now though. I just wish there it was more obvious that you are really inheriting a fresh state somehow. Maybe only `const` should be allowed at the top-level? That still wouldn't handle objects really, but it'd be better than nothing.
- demosthanos 3y agoIs this really that surprising of a behavior, though? PHP apps threw away state after each request, and in the Node.js world data doesn't persist across server restarts or across instances of the app. The only way I could see someone being confused about this is if they thought Deno Deploy was just a single VM running a single instance their code.
- seanw265 3y agoI like a lot of what Deno does, but I'm having some trouble understanding why this (along with Deno's KV and Queues offering) is part of the Deno runtime. The blog post touts this as a feature to reduce the amount of code to get up and running, but a library would accomplish the same thing. A first-party library could even directly integrate with Deno Deploy in the same way that this appears to. Why pollute the runtime with something unrelated?
- gangstead 3y agoI think Ryan Dahl (creator of Deno and Node before that) is trying to make it stand out from Node which has a very small standard library. So they are including common things that used to be in many separate modules.
- ramesh31 3y ago>Why pollute the runtime with something unrelated? Because money. They are venture funded and need to show some kind of path to profitability.
- imbnwa 3y agoPeople acting like Bun, which is also ventured funded, isn't going to be doing a lot of similar things once they stabilize their runtime. Node had a lot of runway in the era/climate it was made in.
- ramesh31 3y agoI also get the sense that Dahl ended up feeling slighted about his loss of control (see: ability to extract rent) of the Node ecosystem, and doesn't want to let that happen again. It feels almost quaint how open things were back then.
- imbnwa 3y agoInteresting, didn't know that was a background intention
- its-summertime 3y agoOverlapping as an option would be nice, if I'm using cron to pull data to append to a database, and the append fails, I can normally retry. However, without overlap, I can't sit there doing retries since that will block future cron runs. Timezones would be nice, "This helps avoid issues with time zones which observe daylight saving time." But it also causes issues with daylight saving time. I can't run something at 9 in the morning, I need to run it 1-2 hours before-hand, calculate the offset, and then queue a run 1-2 hours later. Or I can run 2 crons and have one or the other die early. Point being, all solutions become very hacky very fast. It would be nice if an object was passed to the handler that had a targetDate for the ideal start time would be, so runs can be easily labeled and separated. Yes I could round the Date.now() to the last minute, however, if Deploy ever goes over the minute boundary, that's all kaput. In a similar vein: Systemd timers have some nice features, AccuracySec/RandomizedDelaySec/FixedRandomDelay, some options similar to that would be nice (of course, with minute resolution instead) (and of course, fixed delay can be pre-calculated, but it would be nice to just say 30m and have deno runtime manage that for me) https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.timer.html https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...
- phatboyslim 3y agoAnyone here using Deno in a production workload? Genuinely curious about your experience.
- gorbypark 3y agoIt depends on what you mean by production! I am using Supabase in a hobby-level project that's "in production" (aka live on the internet). Supabase uses Deno to deploy functions. I am currently using Supabase functions (which are Deno Deploy functions) for both an API (interfacing with data not in a Supabase database) as well as some web-hook listener fuctions that keep Supabase accounts in sync with Stripe user IDs. Overall, no issues or complaints. It's always a bit odd coming from npm/node into something like Deno, but the differences are really trivial. I believe Deno has become much more compatible with Node since I really had to update the project, so the differences are probably even smaller now.
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- ilaksh 3y agoGreat, but do they really have to leave the cron schedule format as the only option for specifying? It seems like a great idea if it's 1975 and you are dealing with limitations of that time. And I think it's good to keep it as an option. But why not include any kind of schedule specifier that is a bit less cryptic and error prone? Is it really so much code? Maybe someone has a package already that can wrap this or output a schedule from a human readable description or something. Maybe something like `human-to-cron`.
- alexgarcia-xyz 3y agoA JSON schedule format is coming soon: https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/21340 https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/21340
- hu3 3y agoThis is something I like about in Laravel: $schedule->call(new DeleteRecentUsers)->daily(); $schedule->job(new Heartbeat)->everyFiveMinutes(); $schedule->exec('node /home/forge/script.js')->lastDayOfMonth('15:00'); $schedule->command('foo') ->weekdays() ->hourly() ->timezone('America/Chicago') ->between('8:00', '17:00'); $schedule->command('emails:send') ->hourly() ->days([Schedule::SUNDAY, Schedule::WEDNESDAY]); https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/scheduling https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/scheduling
- CGamesPlay 3y agoAs someone who has not seen this syntax before, it's OK. But, "timezone" shouldn't be a separate method, it should be a parameter to the function taking the time specification. Functions named as nouns should be named "onNoun" instead (onWeekdays, onDays). It's also very unclear what happens if I do something like ->daily()->weekdays() ("daily on weekdays") or ->weekdays()->lastDayOfMonth('15:00') ("on the last weekday of the month at 15:00").
- hu3 3y agoWhile I agree with most if not all your points. Let's agree that "should" is a strong word for what is basically our opinion. These are all debatable. For example: - Prefixing everything with "on" adds noise. It's debatably intuitive enough as it is. - Demanding timezone arguments on these methods also adds noise. More often than not you just want to use system default noise since it is such an important thing that you want to control at a higher level anyway. - It can be okay to allow edge/confusing states if the tradeoff is to keep implementation simpler. One can always rely on unit tests to keep expectations in check.
- bsnnkv 3y agoThere is no doubt that this is a cool technical feat, but I don't think you'll catch me handling cron-like scheduling like this alongside application code. I can see from comments like vvpan's that there is a fatigue around managing services in AWS/GCP/etc, but I have gone very much in the other direction in the last few years towards bare metal servers managed with NixOS. I feel much more confident in handling scheduled jobs on bare metal with Systemd timers than tying myself even deeper into a specific language+deployment solution ecosystem.
- rabbits_2002 3y agowhile this looks useful it certainly shows what they are most concerned about which is making money off their cloud service. I don’t think they have much interest in being a Node alternative anymore.
- hollowturtle 3y agoVercel is it you? Seems like Deno Runtime is implementing what Deno Deploy would sell. While I understand it from a business perspective it totally makes me uninterested, I’d rather keep my dysfunctional marriage with AWS
- TimTheTinker 3y agoWhat I see is yet another way that the backend JS world is finally achieving something .NET had over 10 years ago[0]. Node/Deno/Bun/etc. + npm sounds super straightforward (and it is at first). But I've thought for years that it's far easier to be productive on the backend on .NET in Visual Studio, since it's simpler to design, deliver, and maintain infrastructure. [0] https://www.hangfire.io/ https://www.hangfire.io/
- neonsunset 3y agoTo be fair, Visual Studio is completely optional (and subjectively much worse for publishing/deployment than using CLI). Some developers are moving over to macOS with Rider + Visual Studio Code combo nowadays.
- vcryan 3y agoIf you like this, Elixir will make your brain explode :)
- blitz_skull 3y agoI love Deno. I’ve been playing with it for a long time now. But the fact that Deno Deploy still doesn’t have a “deploy” button but we’ve got cool crons just seems… backwards?