Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/08/2014 20:17, James wrote:
> > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >
> >> New job, new environment. Existing persons suffer from
> >> 5-year-old-with-a-hammer syndrome and assume cron is the solution to all
> >> ills. Result: a towering edifice of cron jobs that may or may not
> >> clobber each other's work, may or may not work at all, and implement no
> >> error handling at all. But my god, can they spew out mail from STOUT
> >
> > Sounds like a department full of computer scientist I inherited a few
> > decades ago...........
>
> I've met folks like that....
> Brilliant in their chosen field but completely useless outside it? The
> kind of fellows who see nothing wrong with eating a barbeque'd steak
> with a spoon because they can get a result?
>
> >
> > I know nothing bout chronos, but I find it an interesting read....ymmv.
> >
> >
> > http://nerds.airbnb.com/introducing-chronos/
> > http://airbnb.github.io/chronos/
> > https://github.com/airbnb/chronos
>
> Aaaaaaaah, now this sounds like something I can use. Proper dependency
> chains, Restful JSON interface so the devs can write code to drive it in
> automation.
>
> Good find, thanks!
Unless I am missing something, chronos is not in the tree at all.
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