This tracks. At a former employer, one of their acquired startups (that I joined on to help guide technical direction for) ran their entire order flow by callin

This tracks. At a former employer, one of their acquired startups (that I joined on to help guide technical direction for) ran their entire order flow by calling a url every minute via a cron task from the primary database server. At one point, the newer devops organization migrated to a bigger, beefier MySQL (this is when fast NVMe was first available in specialized EC2 instances). Nobody remembered to migrate the cron script at that moment, so for about an hour I ran all of customer order flow with a bash script curling a public facing (yikes) url to initialize those jobs.