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So today I discovered that there's a cron job that holds non-reproducible state that died, and now our system is fucked.

The cron job doesn't live inside any source control. This morning it entered a terminal state, and because it overwrites its state there's no way to revert it.

I'm currently waiting for the database rollback and have rewritten it in a reproducible/idempotent way.

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[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 111 points 2 days ago

He does charge a consulting fee to "fix" these issues

Almost all of them are dumb shit like this, where something is built in super hacky and dumbass ways.

[-] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 days ago

Super hacky and dumb? Sign me up ๐Ÿ˜‚

[-] swab148@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

Me running all my services in tmux

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