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 # healthchecks
 
 healthchecks is a watchdog for your cron jobs. It's a web server that listens for pings from your cron jobs, plus a web interface. 
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+The building blocks are:
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+* Python 3
+* virtualenv
+* Django 1.8
+* PostgreSQL
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