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.

  • @koper@feddit.nl
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    2011 days ago

    But the whole point of the doomsday machine is lost… if you keep it a secret! Why didn’t you tell the world, eh?