Scheduler and Polling quits after some minutes, hours, or days

[jody.albritton (Jody)]

Sorry for the delay, we had to make some last minute changes to the notes, but they are now live here.

New scheduler (Codename: Ticker) being rolled out

Hey fellow community members and developers! We’re doing it! The new scheduler (Ticker) is being rolled out to everyone as of now. We wanted to give you a quick note as to what to expect, what the new scheduler is, and what it isn’t. What is ticker? Ticker is our new scheduling architecture for SmartApps and Device Type Handlers. It has been built to be much more robust and scalable than the Cassandra scheduler we have been using for the last couple of years. We are really confident in it’s ability to improve scheduled actions on the platform. How do you know it will be more reliable? We first went back to the drawing board and really thought through this one and we are confident in the architecture. With ticker we have compensation jobs that check for any cron schedules that may have…