How GoodJob's Cron does distributed locks
GoodJob is a multithreaded, Postgres-based, ActiveJob backend for Ruby on Rails. GoodJob has many features that take it beyond ActiveJob. One such feature is cron-like functionality that allows scheduling repeated jobs on a fixed schedule.This post is a brief technical story of how GoodJob prevents duplicated cron jobs from running in a multi-process, distributed environment.
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Nezir Zahirovic
Contractor Ruby On Rails (8+ years) / MCPD .Net / C# / Asp.Net / CSS / SQL / (11 years)
