Is there a reson to use cron jobs?

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Hi folks,



I got quite intrigued why Mautic use cron jobs, yo such a simple question as lead classification.



Once you define that Lead List A = person who did sing-up. Would not be just a inner join? or some flag in a some table? Is it related to performance?



I would be thankful to learn / understand how Mautic works.



Thank you.

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Hi folks,

I got quite intrigued why Mautic use cron jobs, yo such a simple question as lead classification.

Once you define that Lead List A = person who did sing-up. Would not be just a inner join? or some flag in a some table? Is it related to performance?

I would be thankful to learn / understand how Mautic works.

Thank you.

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Hi, good question and you answered it right. It is because of performance. Mautic is ready to handle millions of leads. Imagine if you create a list and add all leads into that list. With that many leads, it would certainly overcome the time or memory limit of most servers.

Mautic uses a batch process to handle these tasks. So every time the cron runs the “mautic:leadlists:update” command it will update only part of all leads.