Ofelia
Dev tools
job scheduler
SHOW HN2016
44points
19comments
#807of 2,264 in 2016
Top 36%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
0 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score -0.11.
Design: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
Objections
Unclear what it offers beyond a battle-tested cron.
From 1 comment
I get that this is not Vixie cron and has a little syntactic sugar for executing commands in Docker containers, but I'm not sure what else it offers, and I'm really going to need…
throwanem on HN
Name is an offensive reference to an obese character.
From 2 comments
I'd be careful with that name/reference. Without implying any bad intent, naming your job scheduler after a female office assistant that being made fun of for being obese isn't a…
discordianfish on HNI understand this and said that I'm not saying there was any bad intend. I'm just saying that some people will feel offended by this, so if this gets attention there will be…
discordianfish on HN
Requests
Support for approximate start times to spread job load.
From 1 comment
Very interesting. I would like to see something in the future with support for approximate times, like launching something about five minutes. Why? Because sometimes you don't…
eb0la on HN
Questions
How does it compare to Airflow-style DAG workflows?
From 1 comment
I'm currently doing scheduled Docker containerized tasks via Airflow. Though the setup is a bit more complex at first, working in DAGs also simplifies my code when one task…
tedmiston on HN
Why replace cron at all?
From 1 comment
What is the problem with cron? It's just too old for you guys?
chukye on HN
Alternatives named
Vixie cron
From 1 comment
I get that this is not Vixie cron and has a little syntactic sugar for executing commands in Docker containers, but I'm not sure what else it offers, and I'm really going to need…
throwanem on HN
Airflow
From 1 comment
I'm currently doing scheduled Docker containerized tasks via Airflow. Though the setup is a bit more complex at first, working in DAGs also simplifies my code when one task…
tedmiston on HN