Questions tagged [scheduling]
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Recommended data structures/algorithms for checking peoples' availability schedules
I'm working on a platform that allows assigning users to events manually. Every user provides their general availability (Mondays 2PM - 8PM, Tuesdays not at all, Wednesdays 3:30PM-7PM, and so on). ...
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Does SQL Server Agent predate Windows Task Scheduler?
An old guru once told me that SQL Server Agent was created because Windows Task Scheduler did not exist at the time. However, all of my research shows that they both released in 1995. For Task ...
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Cache aware job placement algorithm
I am looking for advice on selecting or building a job placement algorithm.
In my company, we have a simple computing platform built on top of Kubernetes. Multiple clients, send compute jobs to a ...
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Fault tolerance in aggregated distributed state
I have a scheduling system that is horizontally scaled, and stores shared state in a redis key.
The purpose of the system is to implement something similar to classic rate limiting, but a bit ...
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Event based update of In memory Hashmap in multiple pods of kubernetes
I have a service (S1) that is deployed on kubernetes having multiple replicas (pods).
S1 requires some data from database (Cosmos Cassandra Api) for calculation.
This data is constantly updated by ...
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Scheduling Algorithm that Maximizes Gaps Between Participants’ Appearances
I’m currently tackling a programming challenge to schedule a series of “performances” (a set of dancers together on a stage for a period of time, concretely) that each involve a set of “participants” (...
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Design pattern for scheduling method calls (open-loop control) [duplicate]
I have an ERP-style system that needs to allow users to orchestrate an Entity.action() on a variety of objects that implement the Entity interface, at different datetimes. Calling action() would ...
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Scheduling asynchronous jobs with efficient round-robin algorithm using Redis
We are trying to redesign our microservice architecture-based application to support multiple tenants. We have a simple queue service that will be utilized by other services to queue any asynchronous ...
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How to convert vehicle schedule time window calculation algorithm to FP
I am working on an algorithm that optimizes utilitization of a vehicle. What I have is a list of paths the vehicle is planned to take and between which times (time windows) it has to be at a certain ...
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Should a process be responsible for scheduling itself?
I need to create a very small service which will programmatically make a database insertion once a day. As our stack primarily uses Node.js, we’re going to write a JS script responsible just for ...
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How to design an application for stalling file processing?
I have an application that is receiving a live stream of files, I am using active MQ for listening to the file arrival in s3. As soon as the file arrives in s3 my application downloads the file and ...
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Help architect a timer-based scheduler
I am writing a timer-based scheduler to accomplish the task of informing a certain process of what to do and when.
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Inform an X process of certain requests to perform at timed-intervals. So ...
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Postgres: Storing a task instruction to be run on a schedule, with multiple workers
As a prerequisite I will say that we are wedded to postgres to provide this solution.
This is a very broad problem, and I think it must be solved many times over, but unfortunately as it's so general ...
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Implementation strategies for dynamically scheduled tasks
This question was completely reedited to be fully in line with the SE guidelines and builds on top of already given comments.
I'll try to introduce some vocabulary to better describe the generic terms ...
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What's the best architecture to run scheduled jobs (max. every hour) and jobs initiated by users, both of which do same processing?
I own a library that reads a file (large or small) and converts it to a special format that one of our vendor's application needs. This conversion can take anywhere between 5 seconds to 10 minutes ...
