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AirBNB Opensources Chronos, a Cron Replacement

Posted by Unknown on from the end-of-time dept.

First time accepted submitter victorhooi writes "AirBNB has open-sourced Chronos- a scheduler built around Apache Mesos (a cluster manager). The scheduler is distributed and fault-tolerant, and allows specifying jobs in ISO8601 repeating notation, as well as creating dependent jobs. There's also a snazzy web interface to track and manage jobs, as well as a RESTful API." It's under the Apache License as seems to be the fashion with businesses releasing software nowadays. It looks like it might be useful if you have to manage a lot of machines with interconnected recurring processes; I know I wish this had existed a few years ago.

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  1. Where do I start ... by recrudescence · · Score: 4, Interesting

    a) Chronos is actually correct (to the extent that the most accepted transliteration for the greek letter chi is 'ch' rather than 'kh') and means 'time'.
    b) If anything, it's actually the Khronos group which should be cowering in shame, since they are misspelling the name Kronos.
    c) Latin doesn't even have a 'ch' diphthong, except when transliterating Greek words (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch_%28digraph%29#Latin)
    d) The latinization of Kronos would have been Cronus, not Chronos.
    e) Strictly speaking, Kronos is a Titan, not a Greek God (except in the looser definition of Titans as deities in general)

    Fail.