Kala – Modern Job Scheduler Written in Go
Kala is a simplistic, modern, and performant job scheduler written in Go. It lives in a single binary and does not have any dependencies. Kala was inspired by Chronos ( https://github.com/mesos/chronos ), developed by Airbnb, but the need for a Chronos for the rest of us. Chronos is built on top of Mesos, and is fault tolerant and distributed by design. These are two features which Kala does not have, as it was built for smaller deployments. It has a simple JSON over HTTP API, so it is language agnostic. It has a Web UI, Job Stats, Configurable Retries, uses ISO 8601 Date…
Kala – Modern Job Scheduler Written in Go launched on June 11, 2015 with 13 votes, #1,445 of 3,954 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.
In plain words
Kala is a job scheduler written in Go that runs as a single binary with no external dependencies. Designed for smaller deployments, it offers a JSON API, web interface, job statistics, configurable retries, and persistent storage using BoltDB. It supports ISO 8601 date and interval notation and allows jobs to depend on other jobs completing first.
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From the sources
Modern Job Scheduler. Contribute to ajvb/kala development by creating an account on GitHub.
In the maker’s words, at launch
Kala is a simplistic, modern, and performant job scheduler written in Go. It lives in a single binary and does not have any dependencies. Kala was inspired by Chronos ( https://github.com/mesos/chronos ), developed by Airbnb, but the need for a Chronos for the rest of us. Chronos is built on top…
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