cron

You mean essentially a transpiler either from cron->schyntax or schyntax->cron?

The solutions for running cron-like tasks on Python are not very mature, everybody seems to be using Celery.

On the platform level, you have NPM/Composer/PIP/etc which you can trigger with a simple cron script or with a git hook.

Frankly, the best way to manage a Windows machine is to install Cygwin, ssh, and cron and pretend it's a Linux box.

A cron preprocessor would allow it to be used in a lot more places.

Set up a cron to push hourly/daily/whatever tar's of your vhost's directory to S3.

If I need to run my own instance - I as well may use the standard cron.

For the retry part, I prefer to use a database table + cron task to do it...

The bare minimum of a weekly cron-automated rsync job can be done in a few minutes, even if you've never done it before.

Right now I run everything off a single box with a cron schedule for each one.

I've been working on a similar idea for running docker containers on a cron schedule.

Have you considered setting it up as a cron pre-processor?

"We can't host it ourselves because that way we miss out on updates." Couldn't you just have a cron job that grabs the latest copy from the CDN every night and caches it on your own server?

Definitely friendlier than Cron:D Excellent work, @bretcope.