How to perform an action on a timer?

Question

JavaScript

There are records in the table, after 10 hours you need to change each record, how to implement this, given that there is a separate conversion time for each record? setTimeout does not seem to be suitable, because A large number of timers load the processor (or maybe not, enlighten me).

Answer 1

Implement a queue, every n minutes the cron twitches a script that looks to see if there are records that need to be changed, you can also set the maximum operating time so as not to load the processor heavily.

Answer 2

you can set a timer before changing the record to change the next