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What is Cron?

Background-only application which launches and runs other applications, or opens documents, at specified dates and times.
Cron is a tool in the Background Processing category of a tech stack.

Who uses Cron?

Companies
4 companies reportedly use Cron in their tech stacks, including PerlTricks, Xzero Media, and Peoople App.

Developers
42 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Cron.

Cron Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Cron?
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
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Cron's Followers
12 developers follow Cron to keep up with related blogs and decisions.