Launching a new version of my side-project
Two years ago, I launched Cronhub’s first version. I started it as a Cron Monitoring tool and helped thousands of developers to monitor their cron jobs. Today, I’m excited to announce the launch of a new product that I call Scheduler and write a bit about my future goals.
Cronhub Scheduler is a job scheduler to automate workflows and run jobs on a recurring basis. I built Schedulers for developers who don’t like working with servers and complicated cron jobs. Think of it as a friendlier alternative to traditional cron jobs.
I see Cronhub monitoring and scheduler as two products that complement each other. For every job you create, you should have monitoring in place so you can be aware of any failures.
Why Scheduler?
I’ve been working with infrastructure and backend services for a long time. In fact, as a full-stack engineer, I’ve always been more into the backend. Although there has been some recent innovation in the backend space, I still believe that for most developers backend engineering sucks.
Working with servers or containers is complicated and overwhelming. The Developer Experience (DX) is just not there yet. Instead of focusing our efforts on building amazing products, we get stuck on writing backend pipelines, scheduling cron jobs, monitoring…
