We’ve been working hard to make Obsidian Scheduler even better. Version 1.1 is now available. Features added in this release include Perfectly distributed load balancing across runnings hosts within seconds of pool membership changes Header icons indicating the number of active hosts Ability to disable targeted scheduler instances without shutting them down Ad hoc job … Read more
As software professionals, we need our job schedulers to be reliable, easy to use and transparent. When it comes to job schedulers, transparent means letting us know what is going on. We want to have available to us information such as when was the job scheduled to run, when did it start, when did it … Read more
Job scheduling is a common need in business software environments. The first thing that likely comes to mind is cron. While cron is a very useful tool, it fails to provide for even basic business needs including logging, history and monitoring and availability (beyond the availability of the host it runs on). Open source tools … Read more
We are proud to announce our new Java scheduler!