[dmitry-vsl]

> We had createScheduledPosts.ts that would run every 15 minutes, scan our table of scheduled posts and create any that needed to be published.

Why not set the publication_date when you create a post and have a function getPublishedPosts that fetches a list of posts, filtering out those with a publication_date earlier than the current date? With this approach, you don't need cron jobs at all.

[jon-wood]

Maybe there's a bunch of other actions that need to take place when a post is published, such as sending notification emails, or posting stuff to social media. They could of course be scheduled jobs in their own right, but you haven't really saved yourself any effort there, and now if the publishing time changes you've got to reschedule all those individual jobs.