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Abhishek Jha
Software Engineer @ Uber
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Introducing Cadence Schedules

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Abhishek Jha
Software Engineer @ Uber

Your nightly ETL job takes 90 minutes. The schedule fires every hour. What should happen?

With traditional cron, the answer is: both run, you deal with the fallout. With CronSchedule on StartWorkflowOptions, the answer was always: the new fire is skipped. Neither answer is right for every situation, and neither lets you change your mind without cancelling and restarting the workflow entirely.

Cadence Schedules give you control.