One of the most requested features at StdLib has been the ability to create remote scheduled tasks, or the equivalent of cron jobs, using our FaaS ecosystem. We’ve had customers looking to build status pages, ping-based alert systems, and more. We launched our scheduled tasks into beta a few weeks ago and after some tinkering and building on our own, we’re excited to share our own status page built on top of scheduled tasks.

If you’re not familiar with Standard Library, we’re a Function as a Service platform and library. We provide scalable microservices with easy command line management, version immutability, type checking, a registry for service discovery, and more — all without the need to provision or manage servers.

We are going to run through the creation of StdLib’s own Status Page. If you’d like to follow along you’ll need: