Show HN: Finch, Simple and Open Source Scheduler for Your Apps

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Finch is also the name of an ncurses chat client.

And an HTTP routing/binding DSL for Finagle.

And a bird.

And a deuteragonist in Person of Interest.

and an american post-hardcore band from temecula, california.

And a character in a socially significant novel, Atticus.

I don't understand why this comment in particular was downvoted.

It's referring to the character Atticus Finch in the book To Kill a Mockingbird.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird

And David Brent's friend, BA (UoLife).

I think that Finch is the protagonist of the show by the end of Season 2.

And one of munificent's bird-named programming languages.

This is exactly what I've needed with an Heroku app for a student society (i.e. free plan, so no `worker`).

Looks great, will look forward to having the time to check it out and implement properly :)

I'm not seeing any sort of 'contract'... what happens if there were network errors, how do you discover failed jobs, etc?

When things go pear-shaped, how do you recover?

This is an interesting service with at least one quick, clear use: running "cron jobs" on AWS Lambda, though there certainly are other options, this seems nice.

> running "cron jobs" on AWS Lambda

You can do that with the AWS Cloudwatch schedule trigger already. Finch seems to allow sub-minute intervals though, which is something that was always missing from Cloudwatch for me.

Great idea. I was thinking about writing something like this that could be deployed to Azure Functions that could replace their Azure Scheduler, which is pretty awful

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