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I'd like to do any one-off job, not only scheduled ones; retrieving data and transforming or storing it, scraping a web page, running a database migration. My biggest annoyance with Fly is the assumption that everything is a long running application.

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Don't tell anyone, but you can try "fly machines run" (currently only in a new, empty app). Then "fly machine start <id>" to start the thing back up after it exits. It's not released yet, though.

I'm not sure how Fly handles one-off tasks behind the scenes, but we're building task queues (w/ cron) as a first class citizen at https://tasker.sh

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