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Hard to believe because I have seen the cron dumpster fire at so many companies. Random cronjobs running on random boxes ends up with mystery jobs whose existen
by Scubabear68 3y ago
Hard to believe because I have seen the cron dumpster fire at so many companies. Random cronjobs running on random boxes ends up with mystery jobs whose existence often goes unnoticed as people leave the org and docs are out of date. Random accounts with different cron jobs, with no visibility from one account to another. Box failure leads to mystery jobs failing with no way to figure out what happened. No “advanced” features like retry and retry with exponential back off. No database with job history. No parallelism.
Every place I have worked cron turned into a dumpster fire.
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoOr you could have a canonical cron box.
- doubloon 3y agoi will see your rando cron box and raise you Excel VBA macros run on Windows Task Scheduler on a spare machine in a cubicle.
- mdekkers 3y agoSure, but those are organisational failures, not technical failures. If you need better technology because the org sucks at planning, the tech isn’t the issue and you are just sweeping issues under the carpet.