Jobs Overview

Jobs let you schedule background work: one-off tasks, recurring cron-style runs, and processor-backed operations (notifications, storage, database, graph, features).

Concepts

Term	Description
Job	A unit of scheduled work with payload, status, and optional repeat/cron
Monitor	SDK worker loop that claims due jobs and routes them to the processor
Dispatch	Enqueue work without blocking the caller (actions, features, resilience, etc.)

When to use jobs

• Run features on a schedule or with delay
• Retry failed operations with backoff
• Process notifications, storage, or database operations asynchronously
• Run healthchecks and recurring maintenance

SDK

Initialize the SDK once, then use ductape.jobs from TypeScript or inject the corresponding service through the NestJS integration.

TypeScript

npm install @ductape/sdk@0.1.8

NestJS

npm install @ductape/nestjs@0.1.0 @ductape/sdk@0.1.8

Next steps

• Scheduling jobs
• Cron expressions
• Job management
• Retry strategies
• Examples
• Processing overview