As engineers, we're well-versed in the common pitfalls of cron jobs and scheduled tasks: they fail to run, they run too long, or they encounter an error an
As engineers, we're well-versed in the common pitfalls of cron jobs and scheduled tasks: they fail to run, they run too long, or they encounter an error and exit with a non-zero status code. We've built robust monitoring around these scenarios, often relying on simple checks: "Did the job start?" "Did it finish within X minutes?" "What was its exit code?"
But what about the more insidious problem: when a cron job runs too fast? It completes seemingly
As engineers, we often set up cron jobs and other scheduled tasks to automate crucial parts of our infrastructure. We meticulously configure them, test the
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