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Can scripts be scheduled to execute ever 5 minutes? Smallest frequency I have seen is 15minutes

nope, 15 minutes is the smallest increment. If you need near-real-time execution I usually recommend taking a different approach if possible. Another option is to use `N/task` to trigger a script exactly when needed.

Since scheduled and M/R scripts are intended for batch processing, it's often a design smell when we're trying to push them to be near-real-time.

Thanks. Could we deploy the script 3 times, and set it to execute every 15mins,?

script 1 execute at 12:01; then ever 15mins
script 1 execute at 12:06; then ever 15mins
script 1 execute at 12:11; then ever 15mins

I think it's better to analyze your architecture here. What are you trying to do every 5 minutes?

Trying to Export Inventory levels which have changed in the last five minutes, to export to sFTP for website

I'd dump a file to the SFTP outbound folder each record update, then have your map/reduce with 2 deployments. Every time a file is created, try scheduling the map/reduce

your M/R should then be perpetually running or pending

quite frankly though, if this has to be *realtime* it should be realtime via an API call to your web side, not an SFTP patchfix. I'd tell them that it can't be realtime without that

<@U01GQGK2TR7> Great answer. I will push back to the third party devs

I'd agree - pushing an SFTP file is about as far removed from real-time techniques as you can get.

Any website worth its salt should have *something* you can push live data to. Hell, if it's as dumb as 3rd party engagements I've worked on are, they *have* something but it requires a tiny bit of work on their side to configure or they simply didn't think of mentioning it :blob-eyeroll:

the desperate option is to have a scheduled script that continuously reschedules itself and then starts your "realtime" script every 5 minutes

you will essentially sacrifice one of queues/processors to accomplish this

more normal is to have middleware with better scheduling options use a restlet