Writing a cron job microservice with Serverless and AWS Lambda

The folks at Readme.io recently had a situation where they needed to create a new cron job to fetch all users from their database who are coming to the end of their trial and insert them into the customer.io database.
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InfoQ - Netflix Conductor, an Orchestration Engine for Microservices

Netflix has developed an orchestration engine called “Conductor”, and has used it internally in production for the last year . During this time they executed some 2.6 million process workflows, starting with linear ones and ending with dynamic ones running over multiple days. Now they have open sourced Conductor, making it available to all those interested in workflow orchestration.

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