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<p>Are there any benefits to using the latter (<code>:timer.apply_after</code>), to the former (periodic worker)?</p>
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<p>No, not really, I would even say the reverse. <code>:timer.apply_after</code> does not spawn a supervised process if I remember correctly. And having a dedicated <code>Task</code> as shown in my example above does.</p>
<p><em>(Hello, necro’ing a tread 2 years later.)</em></p> 
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<p>For reference, I finally went with a periodic worker. Turns out, talking to the person reviewing your <a href="https://github.com/hexpm/hexpm/pull/1058" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">PR</a> before posting on the internet is a good idea!</p>
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      <pre><code class="lang-ex">defmodule Hexpm.ReleaseTasks.RemoveStaleWebAuthRequests do
  require Logger
  import Ecto.Query, only: [from: 2]
  alias Hexpm.Accounts.WebAuthRequest
  alias Hexpm.{Utils, Repo}

  def run() do
    # Trigger error_handler and rollbar reporting on 'hexpm eval ...'
    Task.async(&amp;do_run/0)
    |&gt; Task.await(:infinity)
  end

  def do_run() do
    find_stale_requests()
    |&gt; log_result
    |&gt; Repo.delete_all()
  end

  defp log_result(query) do
    stale_requests = Repo.aggregate(query, :count, :id)
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