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Schedule tasks. Deliver webhooks. Zero infrastructure

rilesthefirst 1y ago
Let's say you have a Django or FastApi server, and you want to execute a function next monday at 3pm. You would need to setup celery, redis, a permanent DB, handle concurrency, queues, timezones, debug, backup because if you restart the server you would lose all your cron jobs, etc. too much code for something that is not directly related to you business logic. Orkera is an API, you can send a post request specifying, a datetime, data parameters, and a callback URL. All you need now it to setup a webhook and you will recieve your data and the desired datetime. now you can focus on your business logic and not waste time ! This is particularly useful with agentic AI where you often need to take actions in the future.
xp84 1y ago
I’m pretty sure this could fill a need for some people, especially given how different it is to operate in containerized environments compared to the old Linux server cron situation. It seems like there would be an advantage here that you should be advertising more prominently if you do it, and if you’re not doing it, maybe consider it: Your application should be able to offer great visibility (and alerting, etc) to whether the tasks were acknowledged, and potentially whether they were successful (depending on whether they are so long-running that you don’t want to tie up a thread waiting for a super long HTTP request).
- rilesthefirst 1y ago
  Hi xp84, thanks for the feedback! You’re totally right, visibility and monitoring are key, especially in containerized or distributed environments. In Orkera, you can already see past tasks, upcoming tasks, and their status, and you even have the ability to cancel tasks if needed. We also handle retries automatically. That said, making this more dashboard-friendly and alert-driven is definitely something we’re thinking about. Appreciate the insight, exactly the kind of feedback I’m looking for!
mayamayaHL 1y ago
It's cool. You should really build an SDK too.
- rilesthefirst 1y ago
  Indeed ! The first version of the Python SDK is now live, you can install it by running "pip install orkera"

Let's say you have a Django or FastApi server, and you want to execute a function next monday at 3pm. You would need to setup celery, redis, a permanent DB, handle concurrency, queues, timezones, debug, backup because if you restart the server you would lose all your cron jobs, etc. too much code for something that is not directly related to you business logic. Orkera is an API, you can send a post request specifying, a datetime, data parameters, and a callback URL. All you need now it to setup a webhook and you will recieve your data and the desired datetime. now you can focus on your business logic and not waste time ! This is particularly useful with agentic AI where you often need to take actions in the future.

xp84 1y ago

I’m pretty sure this could fill a need for some people, especially given how different it is to operate in containerized environments compared to the old Linux server cron situation. It seems like there would be an advantage here that you should be advertising more prominently if you do it, and if you’re not doing it, maybe consider it: Your application should be able to offer great visibility (and alerting, etc) to whether the tasks were acknowledged, and potentially whether they were successful (depending on whether they are so long-running that you don’t want to tie up a thread waiting for a super long HTTP request).

rilesthefirst 1y ago
Hi xp84, thanks for the feedback! You’re totally right, visibility and monitoring are key, especially in containerized or distributed environments. In Orkera, you can already see past tasks, upcoming tasks, and their status, and you even have the ability to cancel tasks if needed. We also handle retries automatically. That said, making this more dashboard-friendly and alert-driven is definitely something we’re thinking about. Appreciate the insight, exactly the kind of feedback I’m looking for!

mayamayaHL 1y ago

It's cool. You should really build an SDK too.

rilesthefirst 1y ago
Indeed ! The first version of the Python SDK is now live, you can install it by running "pip install orkera"