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0 pointscoldtea7y ago0 comments

>Cron jobs are the definition of the anti pattern of treating servers like pets and not cattle.

Cron jobs are the definition of "if it works don't fix it" and YAGNI.

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scarface747y ago· 3 in thread

But cron jobs don’t work when you need server redundancy or retry logic.

That’s not cron’s job. Different jobs have different requirements and tradeoffs. Ownership of retry logic and distribution design belongs with whatever cron kicked off.

coldteaOP7y ago

Yes, but it's not like the original claim, that it's somehow totally "deprecated" today and people should skip it.

scarface747y ago

Yeah because for me, anything that doesn’t have redundancy should be skipped....

Unless the cron job is only doing some type of maintenance that only affects the local redundant server....

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