Cron vs Queue vs Event: Choosing the Right Trigger
How time, work, and causality shape execution—and how to choose without creating debt
Feb 1, 20266 min read2
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Understanding Cron from First Principles to Production
A practical series exploring cron from core concepts and architecture to real-world Yii & HumHub implementations, focusing on background jobs, queues, scheduling tradeoffs, and how time-based systems behave in production.
Idempotency: The Most Important Word in Cron You’re Probably Ignoring
How to design cron jobs that survive retries, overlaps, and partial failures
Feb 1, 20266 min read3
Cron Lies: When Scheduled Jobs Don’t Run
Why scheduled jobs quietly fail—and how to design systems that don’t trust time blindly
Feb 1, 20266 min read2
The Evolution Path: From Cron to Orchestration
How cron fits into modern systems—and how to evolve without tearing it out
Jan 25, 20266 min read1
Cron Failure Modes, Tradeoffs, and Lessons Learned
What broke, what surprised me, and how real constraints reshape “best practices”
Jan 25, 20266 min read2
Cron Production Setup: What I Actually Built
How a real Yii & HumHub system scheduled work under real operational constraints
Jan 25, 20266 min read2