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Thanks for sharing these. In my case, I needed a system capable of sending payments at precise intervals, ensuring that a single payment was sent exactly once, despite the job being shared by a group of servers (for redundancy and high availability). Postgres provides the central locking, so tasks can be handed out to the pool of workers, while also supporting failover by streaming to a warm-standby replica.



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