Continuing with his Linux 101 series, Jack Wallen introduces you to the basics of task scheduling with cron.

Cron is simple and easy to use, and most important, it just works. It sure beats having to remember to run your backups by hand, for example. But cron does have its limits. Today's enterprises are ...

Deno Cron jobs can perform actions such as updating state in Deno KV, pinging a website, sending email, initiating a database backup, and calling an API at regular intervals.