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Time-Based Scheduling

Run periodic work.

Running Work on a Schedule

Many systems need periodic work: cleaning temp files nightly, sending a digest email each morning, polling an API every minute. This lesson introduces time-based scheduling in Go using the standard library.

The time Package

Go's time package is the foundation. Key tools:

  • time.Sleep pauses a goroutine
  • time.After returns a channel that fires once
  • time.Ticker fires repeatedly
  • time.Timer fires once after a delay

All lessons in this course

  1. Time-Based Scheduling
  2. The robfig/cron Library
  3. Tickers for Intervals
  4. Graceful Job Shutdown
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