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Every post I've written about cron — 1 article, across Engineering. Most recent: “What `dbos ontime` Actually Asks: Building a Distributed Cron on etcd Leases in Go.”

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What `dbos ontime` Actually Asks: Building a Distributed Cron on etcd Leases in Go

A 0-click query for `dbos ontime` showed up in my Search Console last week. The reader is not asking about DBOS — they are asking how to run a job every minute, exactly once, across a fleet. From my own notes, an etcd lease, the `concurrency.Election` package, and a fencing token cover that case in under 100 lines of Go, without pulling in a workflow engine.

May 7