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Welcome to the Daestro's Blog, here you will find articles related to how to use Daestro, feature releases, changelog, internals and other technical write ups.

What is Cron and Cron Job

Cron is a computer program that runs a command repeatedly at set intervals, indefinitely. Tasks that are executed by cron daemon are called Cron Jobs.

Batch Jobs

Batch jobs are a way to run similar work all at once. These types of jobs are mainly scheduled for off-peak hours to avoid overloading the computer systems.

How To Run Batch Jobs On Linode

Linode (Akamai Cloud) lacks native batch jobs, but Daestro bridges the gap. Learn how to connect your Linode account to Daestro to execute your jobs seamlessly.

How To Run Batch Jobs On DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean's current gen CPUs, NVMe storage, and affordable pricing make it the perfect compute environment for running intensive batch jobs with Daestro.

Run Multiple Jobs On A Server with CPU and Memory Quota

Daestro's container orchestrator let's you run multiple jobs on a single server by setting CPU and memory quotas, allowing you to fully utilize your resources.

How To Run Jobs On Your Self-hosted Compute

Daestro Agent lets you run container-based batch and cron jobs on your own hardware, giving you cloud-level control and observability over your local machines.

How To Run Batch Jobs on Vultr

Vultr offers VMs with one of the best price to performance ratio, which makes it ideal choice for running compute and IO intensive batch jobs using Daestro.