Cron System

[jaymacdonald]

I will be working on a cron system. It will work without requiring any cron on the system.

How it will work:

* REQUEST -> Cron: Check for events -> No Events, Continue ->

OR

* REQUEST -> Cron: Check for events -> -> Event(s) Detected! -> Process Event(s) -> Continue

Although mainly used for the backend, a client API will be written.

[psychcf]

This is a good idea, but it needs to be planned out. We have to think of situations where an app or we would need cron. Once we come up with ideas, we need to come up with an implementation that will work (either client side or server side).

Also, we have to decide if we want to check for cron during requests, or using a standard unix cron job on the server, or both.

So lets brainstorm some ways we can use cron on the system and post them up here before we code anything.