Clocks change Oct 25 (EU) / Nov 1 (US): which of your cron jobs run twice or skip?Disclosure: I build Cron Toolkit and Cron Heartbeat, the tools linked below. They have free tiers. Every schedule shown here was computed with the Cron Toolkit engine, and you can paste them into the 1h ago · 4 min readlowbatterytools.hashnode.dev
Your cron job didn't fail. It never ran. Detecting silent misses (including GitHub Actions' late schedules)Most job monitoring watches for errors: non-zero exit codes, exceptions, error logs. That catches jobs that run and break. It can't catch the job that never starts: a deploy overwrote the crontab; th1h ago · 4 min readlowbatterytools.hashnode.dev
Converting Quartz and AWS EventBridge cron to Unix crontab (and the 4 traps that bite)Disclosure: I maintain Cron Toolkit, the small API linked at the end. Everything in this post works without it. "Cron" means at least four different formats. When you move a job from Spring/Quartz or 1h ago · 3 min readlowbatterytools.hashnode.dev