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Re:Executing Cron Scripts Reliably at Scale by gtirloni on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @08:13PM (#39211778)
Yeah, the article raises more questions than it answers them.

> When designing this new, more reliable service, we decided to leverage many existing services to decrease the amount we had to build

This might explain building from scratch. Maybe the existing solutions had dependencies they didn't want to maintain and they opted for using the existing internal systems. It feels like that influenced all the rest.

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