Cron vs Scheduler
❔Advice
My platform is getting bigger and bigger, with different entitites that requires constantly checking states for invalidation.
My default way to handle invalidation is to build a cron job that will check every X minutes, but that was Fagner without Convex.
With Convex we can use schedulers to run a specific action after a certain period, and it got me thinking: When scheduler is better than cron?
With a cron job, I will check every entity and usually have a little bit of staleness (something that should be invalidated 3 minutes ago), and it will always read more than the necessary.
With a schedule, I will be precise, but sometimes I will be targeting an entity that shouldn't be invalidated (entity is now active again)
And that's what I'm trying to understand, which one is better and how to decide it.
My default way to handle invalidation is to build a cron job that will check every X minutes, but that was Fagner without Convex.
With Convex we can use schedulers to run a specific action after a certain period, and it got me thinking: When scheduler is better than cron?
With a cron job, I will check every entity and usually have a little bit of staleness (something that should be invalidated 3 minutes ago), and it will always read more than the necessary.
With a schedule, I will be precise, but sometimes I will be targeting an entity that shouldn't be invalidated (entity is now active again)
And that's what I'm trying to understand, which one is better and how to decide it.
