Event Driven
- Most modern job schedulers are event driven: jobs that run in sequence have no wait time.
- The opposite is time driven, like Windows' Scheduled tasks or Unix' crontab: a job runs at some time, and the next job is scheduled the expected runtime later plus some spare time.
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