title: Google App Engine - Task Queues vs Cron Jobs
body: <p>The latest Google App Engine release supports a new <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/taskqueue/overview.html#Using_Task_Queues_in_Python" rel="noreferrer">Task Queue API</a> in Python.  I was comparing the capabilities of this API vs the already existing <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/cron.html" rel="noreferrer">Cron service</a>.  For background jobs that are not user-initiated, such as grabbing an RSS feed and parsing it on a daily interval.  Can and should the Task Queue API be used for non-user initiated requests such as this?</p>