Continuing with his Linux 101 series, Jack Wallen introduces you to the basics of task scheduling with cron.

If I have stuff in cron.daily or .hourly or whatever how does it get scheduled? Do they run as soon as they can (like the daily at 0:00:01) or is there some randomness involved? I am concerned ...

Deno Cron jobs can perform actions such as updating state in Deno KV, pinging a website, sending email, initiating a database backup, and calling an API at regular intervals.