[Guide] Stop blocking your deployments with long-running crons ⏳

Long-running crons are likely stealing resources from your app container and creating unnecessary support tickets. If your crons are blocking your deployments, you are dealing with a major engineering grind that slows down your entire team.

The fix is often simpler than you think. You should move those heavy tasks to workers instead. Here is why it matters for your workflow:

• Workers handle deployments better than framework schedulers
• Moving to workers prevents resource theft from your main app
• Using workers stops the cycle of deployment blocks and support tickets

It is important to know when a cron is fine and when it is time to switch to a modern alternative. Making this change keeps your environment stable and your deployments moving.

Check out the full technical breakdown:

That cron should be a worker - Upsun Developer

Long-running crons block your deployments, steal resources from your app container, and create support tickets. Here's when to use workers instead.

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