No Reliable Durable Delay Queue for Long-Horizon Timed Backend Tasks
Backends often need to run actions once at a future time (trial expiry, payment retries), but few reliable options exist for long-term scheduling. Teams fall back on per-minute cron polling that loads the database, message bus and observability stack.
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