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Discussion on: What do you use Cron jobs for?

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Corentin Bettiol

I recently used cron jobs for two main things: to retrieve the latest issues of our clients to display them on a custom interface, and to update the list of pages of a website in a solr backend (full text search application).

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Arturs Smirnovs

Sounds interesting.. What's that solr project is about? and how you use it?
Could you add something about it?
Sounds interesting as I have solr project as well..

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Corentin Bettiol

We created a package that we use with django-haystack in order to index Django-based sites pages.

When our customers post new content on their sites they just have to wait a few hours before it is crawled and available in the search index.