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Monday, Mar 10, 2026
You Don’t Need a Developer to Schedule an API Call
You know what a webhook URL is. You’ve pasted API keys into tools. Here’s how marketing teams can schedule Slack messages, trigger Zapier workflows, and ping CRM endpoints — no engineering ticket required.
Monday, Mar 10, 2026
Background Jobs for Agencies: Scheduling and Retries Without the Overhead
Client projects need delayed emails, retries, and cron jobs. But the budget doesn’t include Redis, workers, and ongoing infrastructure. Here’s the shortcut that makes handoff easy too.
Monday, Mar 10, 2026
Stop Waiting on Backend: Schedule API Calls Without a Ticket
Your backend team has a 3-week backlog. You need a delayed email, a retry on a flaky API, a scheduled report. Here’s how to ship it yourself without filing a ticket.
Monday, Mar 10, 2026
How to Add Delayed Jobs and Retries to Cloudflare Workers
Workers are fast, cheap, and global. But scheduling delayed tasks means stitching together Queues, Durable Objects, and D1. Here’s how to skip all that with one fetch() call.
Monday, Mar 10, 2026
Background Jobs for Vibe Coders: Ship Delayed Tasks Without Learning DevOps
Building with Cursor, v0, or AI assistants? You don’t need Redis, BullMQ, or worker processes. Add delayed tasks, retries, and cron jobs with a single fetch() call.
Monday, Mar 10, 2026
Cron Jobs Without a Server: HTTP Scheduling for JAMstack and Serverless
Your modern stack doesn’t have cron. But you need daily cleanups, weekly reports, and renewal checks. Turn any HTTP endpoint into a scheduled job — no server required.
Monday, Mar 10, 2026
Schedule API Calls From Vercel, Netlify, and Cloudflare Workers
Frontend platforms don’t give you background workers. Here’s how to add delayed tasks, cron jobs, and webhook fan-out to any serverless platform with one fetch call.
Monday, Mar 10, 2026
Building a Reliable Webhook Queue for Serverless Applications
Serverless functions are great for handling webhooks — until cold starts, timeouts, and concurrency limits cause failures. Learn how to add a queue layer without managing infrastructure.
Monday, Mar 10, 2026
How to Add Automatic Retry to Any HTTP Request
HTTP requests fail. Instead of building your own retry logic with exponential backoff, rate limit handling, and dead letter queues, add retry with a single URL change.
Monday, Mar 10, 2026
How to Schedule HTTP Requests Without Managing Cron Jobs
Need to send an HTTP request at a specific time? Skip the cron jobs, task queues, and cloud schedulers. Schedule any request by adding a query parameter.
Tuesday, May 03, 2022
Schedule Transactional Emails with Zeplo
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When building web applications, transactional emails are those emails sent to users when they perform actions. We can use Zeplo to schedule these emails in the future.
Sunday, May 01, 2022
Lowest cost alternative to AWS SNS+SQS and Lambda
I have a application that uses sns+sqs to schedule async “jobs” that later get handled by a lambda function. One drawback to this approach is that when using SQS as an event source for lambda, lambda polls SQS ~20,000 times a day.
Saturday, Apr 30, 2022
Update May 2022
It’s a brand new month, and we’re excited to plan out the features for May 2022.
Saturday, Apr 30, 2022
🕸 Building webhooks
We’ve been asked by a number of our customers to build webhooks, so that they can build their own services on top of Zeplo. Given that webhooks are a primary use case for Zeplo - it really makes sense to implement our own. Hopefully we can use Zeplo to power Zeplo’s own webhooks.
Thursday, Apr 28, 2022
Amazon SQS, RabbitMQ, Redis & Zeplo Queuing Solutions: The Comparison
In this article, we will compare different queuing solutions and discuss how difficult it is to set them up.
Thursday, Mar 31, 2022
Update April 2022
We’re going to start releasing a monthly update, and this is our first edition - April 2022. This will provide an update on the progress we have made in the previous month and provide a roadmap for the month ahead.