Writing a cron job microservice with Serverless and AWS Lambda

Re:Writing a cron job microservice with Serverless and AWS L... by abrookewood on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @05:36AM (#13529377)

I've read about external services that will hit a SQS queue for you, but it would be a lot nicer if it was just supported natively in Lambda.

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Re:Writing a cron job microservice with Serverless and AWS L... by lostcolony on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @05:51PM (#13536152)

No, like, http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/with-scheduled-e... (and linked from that page, http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/tutorial-schedul... )

You can just set up "here's my cron string, run this function", and it will run that function when applicable. No external services, no SQS. Just a Cloudwatch event, that executes your lambda, at a set schedule.

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Re:Writing a cron job microservice with Serverless and AWS L... by abrookewood on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @09:18PM (#13537608)

Perfect! Thanks. I'm going to retire some boxes ;)

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