System Design Factory

Track 2 · Coordination

Job Scheduler

A cron-style service: run millions of jobs on time, once, while workers pause and come back.

Pro Hard 11 min guided 9 Checks

What you practice

Saving a job is easy; running it once is not, because workers die and also pause and come back. You will give each run one owner, never lose a run, and handle a million jobs due in the same minute.

This Exercise is part of Pro. The free Exercise and the Sandbox are open to everyone.