CronBuzz
simple and effective cron job monitoring tool
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It took 3 months, but I'm finally done building the minimum viable product for CronBuzz. I worked mostly nights and weekends, and I coded the whole thing in PHP since that's that I'm the most comfortable with.
I finished most of the features required for functioning of the product.
I have a simple application which posts to social media sites like facebook on a schedule basis.
I slowly started realizing that all the posts are being posted twice. I initially blamed my code and spent hours figuring out the root cause but of no use.
After further investigation, I found out that the cron job which posts them to social media sites is running on two servers. This extra server is a dummy server which i started to migrate the application. But i left it behind in the middle to focus on it when i have more time. But i did not realize that the cron job is running on this server.
I immediately stopped the cron job from the dummy server. Then i thought,
what if this cron job is processing payments?
what if this cron job is generating shipment labels for e-commerce store?
what if this cron job is doing a very critical task which should not be duplicated?
I thought others might be in the same boat and realized we should start monitoring our cron jobs.
That lead to the idea behind creating cronbuzz.
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