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Comment on Launch HN: Defer (YC W23) – Zero-infrastructure background jobs for Node.jsparent

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If you set up all the CI/CD pipelines to make that work.

I've been "abusing" GitLab CI pipelines a lot for running periodic background jobs that I'd like to have separated from the "regular" backend and without worrying much about deployment.

It supports Cron Syntax for scheduling, manual re-runs, provides secret management and download of artifacts, alerts me on failure and allows me to easily use the docker images in our registry.

Sure, I'm not storing anything in a database or calling the pipeline via an endpoint. But if that's needed, it should probably be "part of the regular backend".

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