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Mastering PHP Design Patterns
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Mastering PHP Design Patterns

by Junade Ali
September 2016
Intermediate to advanced
270 pages
5h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Cronjob imitating service

This one is a personal hatred of mine. A developer needs a service to run indefinitely, so they just enable a cronjob that never ends, or simply have a cronjob that operates incredibly frequently (such as once every few seconds).

A cronjob is a scheduled job that will run at a predetermined time. It's not something that operates services for you. Not only is this messy from an architectural perspective, but it scales horribly and becomes terrible to monitor.

A constantly processing task should be treated as a daemon and not as something that runs on the basis of a cronjob.

Monit is a tool in Linux systems that allows you to imitate services.

You can install Monit using the apt-get command:

sudo apt-get install monit

Once ...

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