If you schedule jobs to run periodically against our API, via a task scheduler such as cron, pick an arbitrary offset to avoid congestion.
For example, if you want to run an hourly job, instead of running 08:00, 09:00 and so on,
you choose an arbitrary offset (for example the arbitrary value 43 minutes, which would translate into 08:43, 09:43, 10:43 and so on).
The same principle applies to jobs running every day or every fifteen minutes.
This will allow your jobs to complete quicker, because they will avoid the congestion that often occur around the whole hour/day/minute.