What's old is new again. Much of clean distributed systems development is now built on, what is essentially, scheduled period operations. They're pretty much the least complicated ways to loosely couple domain logic in distributed systems that follow eventually-consistent semantics. They're also a good model for the functionality of many distributed scheduling systems like Kubernetes, AWS' ECS Scheduled Tasks, and more.

Kubernetes even goes so far to have Jobs (batch operations) and CronJobs (scheduler that creates Jobs).