Joe Rowe
We built a better system for scheduling cron jobs
We built a system to define scheduled jobs that moves away from cron and adds support for timezones, better monitoring and a more delightful developer experience
How we prepare for huge spikes in traffic as millions of our customers get paid early
This blog explains the problems that occur when hundreds of thousands of customers all request to be paid millions of pounds at almost exactly the same time, and what we do to keep things running smoothly while that happens.